The seminar is being organized by Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE), School of Engineering and Technology on “Understanding Multidisciplinary Design & Optimization for System Design and Development.”
Abstract
Currently, manufacturing companies are forced to invest more and more in innovation, in order to improve the quality, flexibility and variety of their products apart from reducing their costs at the same time.
A design process is traditionally divided into three stages: conceptual design stage, preliminary design stage, and detail design stage. Research results reveal that over 70% of product production cost is determined during the conceptual design stage. The design process may also be considered as an analysis and optimization problem within the preliminary design stage, encompassing all the design disciplines pertinent to the product. In the product development cycle several engineering tasks like design, process planning and production planning have to be executed. The execution of these tasks mainly involves information processing and decision making.
An automated analysis is theoretically free of human error, since there is no human input during the analysis loops. Elimination of human error should improve efficiency and accuracy of the final design. Automation might also reduce the time required for the design of product. Performing the required tasks manually can take much more time than having them accomplished by software tools. Because of these reasons, a multidisciplinary optimization (MDO), concurrent engineering (CE) and Integrated Product Process Development (IPPD) are important role in the development of product life cycle.
This seminar will present Overview of MDO, Elements and Key Technologies, MDO Frameworks & Applications and IPPD for Helicopter Rotor Blade Development.
AIT alumni, staff and students are cordially invited. For further details, please contact: Mr. Than Lin (e-mail: thanlin@gmail.com) or Mrs. Tin Nwe Aye at 5686.