- Docente: Alessandro Freddi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-IND/14
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 0454)
Learning outcomes
The Course introduces to the Design process. Engineering Design and Industrial Design must be planned and systematically executed.
The process is broken down into phases:
- The Design Process
- Finding solutions
- Conceptual Design
- Embodiment Design
Course contents
PART I: Conceptual Design
1. A Design method
Physical and human context.
Some definitions
Design as language
VDI 2222Guide lines
Strategy and Tactic
2. Organizing Information
QFD method for task clarification
Relation Matrix
House Of Quality
Specification List
Check List For Specs.
Case analysis
3. From Function Structure to Solutions
Functional Analyis
Solution Finding Methods
Case Study
Functions Structure
Morphologial Matrix
Evaluating Solution Variants
Technical And Economical Rates
Diagramma Di Confronto
Design & Engineering: the Interaction of two cultures
in an Italian context
4. Design for reliability
Reliability of a technical system
Constant failure rate
Not constant failure rate
Reliability for several units
(FTA)
FMEA
Guide lines for a Design FMEA
Guide lines for a Process FMEA
5. Organisation aspects of the Design for quality
Qualitycosts
Life cycle
Concurrent engineering
A comparative analysis of Quality tools
PART II: Embodiment design
6. Basic rules
Steps
A check list
Clarity
Simplicity
Safety
Principles of embodiment design
Design to allow for espansion
Design to allow for creep and relaxation
7.Design for production
8. Design for assembly
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture Notes:
A. Freddi: Design for Quality
A book: G. Pahl e W. Beitz: Konstruktion Lehre, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2003
Engineering Design, a Systematic Approach, Springer Verlag 1997.
Other books
D.G. Ullman: The Mechanical Design Process. McGraw-Hill, Inc. N.Y. 1992.
W. Lidwell, K. Holden, J. Butler: Universal principles of design, Rockport Publi. 2003
K. T. Ulrich, S.D. Eppinger : Progettazione e sviluppo di prodotto. Ed. it. a cura di G. Nicoletto,
McGraw-Hill, Milano, 2001.
Teaching methods
- Lessons
- A Mechanical Design development for every student team of 6-8 persons with University and external tutors.
Assessment methods
Written and oral examinations on 3 topics selected from the Course contents.
Teaching tools
Contact with industrial Companies for defining a design development.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Freddi