Design is a ubiquitous human activity. valued by individuals, teams, organizations, and cultures. There are patterns recurrent phenomena across the diverse set of approaches to design also variances. Designers can benefit from leveraging conceptual tools like process models, methods, principles amplify phenomena. many variant for design. Likewise, usage these differentiates in industrial contexts. We present an integrated model, with exemplar methods that synthesized review several case...

Over the last two decades, consumers have become increasingly aware and desiring of sustainable products. However, little attention has been paid to developing conceptual design methods that explicitly take into account environmental impact. This paper contributes a method automated function component generation, guided down-selection decision-making based upon The impact functions calculated for 17 products found in Design Repository using ReCiPe scoring SimaPRO. A hierarchical Bayesian...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if early stage function models design can be used predict the market-value a commercial product. In previous research, several metrics complexity graph-based product have been proposed and suitably chosen combinations these shown time required in assembling products. By extension, research investigates approach, using new sets metrics, market-value. To end, values structures for eighteen products from Design Repository are determined their...

Abstract In an age of worsening global threat landscape and accelerating uncertainty, the design manufacture systems must increase resilience robustness across both system itself entire process. We generally trust our colleagues after initial clearance/background checks; to function as intended within operating parameters safety engineering review, verification, validation, and/or qualification testing. This approach has led increased insider impacts; thus, we suggest moving “trust, but...

Abstract System of interest (SoI) failures can sometimes be traced to an unexpected behavior occurring within another system that is a member the systems (SoS) with SoI. This article presents method for use when designing SoI helps analyze SoS behaviors from existing members during SoI's conceptual functional modeling phase architecture. The concept irrationality initiators—unanticipated or failure flows emitted one adversely impact SoI, which appear impossible irrational engineers...

This paper explores how reliability analysis and cyber-security can be combined using Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AI/ML), Large Language Models (LLM) to produce a continuously updated resilience analysis. is achieved by modeling both the hardware software of system, employing LLMs AI/ML search for new vulnerabilities feed that information into updating models. A case study drone presented demonstrates promise proposed method. It expected method, named Assessment Risk in...

Abstract Risk assessment is an essential step for architecting the resilience (safety/security) of a mission critical software-intensive system as well regular maintenance procedures. It closely relates to estimating (cyber) insurance needs system. Managing cyber risk involves gathering threat intelligence, prioritizing current threats against interest, and planning mitigation strategies. While reliability engineering can rely on relatively stable set failure modes statistical data related...

Abstract Increasingly tight coupling and heavy connectedness in system of systems (SoS) present new problems for systems’ designers engineers. While the failure one within a loosely coupled SoS may produce little collateral damage beyond loss capability, highly interconnected can experience significant when member fails an unanticipated way. It is therefore important to develop that are “good neighbors” with other by failing ways do not further degrade SoS’s ability complete its mission....

Locating relevant biological analogies is a challenge that lies at the heart of practicing biologically inspired design. Current computer-assisted design tools require human-in-the-loop synthesis biology knowledge. Either expert must synthesize information into standard form, or designer interpret and assess strategies. These approaches limit knowledge breadth tool usefulness, respectively. The work presented in this paper applies technique human computation, historically successful approach...

Innovation has been touted as a means toward providing sustainability. Innovations in materials, manufacturing, and product design can lead to reduction of global environmental impacts while helping realize the goals sustainable society. This research aims explore whether or not functionality an effect on impact if flow energy, signals (EMS) have impact. Innovative common products are identified life cycle assessment is performed for each at component level. Using function matrices,...

System of systems (SoS) failures can sometimes be traced to a system within the SoS behaving in unexpected ways. Due their emergent complexity, these types are notoriously challenging foresee. This paper presents method aid predicting unknown unknowns SoS. Irrationality initiators – failure flows emanating from one that serve as initiating events another introduced into quantitative risk analysis methods such Failure Flow Identification and Propagation framework Probabilistic Risk...

This paper presents a method for the systematic and automated design of flexible organic linkers construction metal organic-frameworks (MOFs) in which flexibility, compliance, or other mechanically exotic properties originate at linker level rather than from framework kinematics.

A challenge systems engineers and designers face when applying system failure risk assessment methods such as probabilistic (PRA) during conceptual design is their reliance on historical data behavioral models. This paper presents a framework for exploring space of functional models using graph rewriting rules qualitative simulation that information in an intuitive manner human-in-the-loop decision-making human-guided design. An example presented wherein model electrical power testbed...

Locating relevant biological analogies is a challenge that lies at the heart of practicing biologically inspired design. One promising solution involves computationally providing inspiration to designer. This paper presents novel human computation game for collecting computable descriptions strategies, an assessment quality these gathered from experimental data, and evaluation game’s user experience. approach organizing phenomena improves upon breadth curated database approaches without...

Applying previous solutions to solve new problems is a core aspect of design, and designers routinely use informal analogies wide variety design problems. However, when the goal consider large quantity creative solutions, relying on analogy recall may limit solution breadth. This paper reports work identify connections that make during concept generation such computational support can be employed intentionally retrieve analogical from existing systems. A study types similarity are commonly...

The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (known by its Russian acronym TRIZ) is used across the globe to help engineers working on product design and development. In previous papers authors developed a Function-Based TRIZ method began validation process. A single innovative feature was identified in sample products, these features were traced backwards matrix. matrix deemed successful cases where any inventive principle suggested could have produced feature. During this process, observed that...

Abstract This paper adapts the agile scrum sprint, typically used in software development, to a prototyping sprint for mechatronic product design. The Design by Prototyping framework describes how can be manage process design projects through an agile-stage-gate hybrid model. A comparison of 18 student using either sprints or traditional iterative approach shows that helped students make more deliberate, strategic decisions about their use prototypes.

Design education is a large field. It not just limited to engineering design but can also include apparel design, industrial graphic architecture, and many others. These disciplines instruct students follow similar process what generally taught in design. However, these other contain variety of instructional techniques, class structures, types that are regularly included While engineers tend get background rich math science, instructing be difficult. Many science classes focus on one...

Abstract As design and thinking become increasingly important competencies for a modern workforce, the burden of assessing these fuzzy skills creates scalability bottleneck. Toward addressing this need, paper presents an exploratory study into scalable computational approach assessment. In study, student responses to variety contextualized questions – gathered both before after participation in training course are analyzed. Specifically, text features engineered, tested, interpreted within...

This research provides a comparison of set Bio-Inspired Design (BID) tools to determine advantages and disadvantages each, with particular focus on database-directed design processes. The result this is beneficial attributes, discussed develop requirements for formulating an effective BID tool. In study, each tool evaluated in terms both the effectiveness concept generation process, designer feedback concerning elements. between uses sketches generated from classroom graduate undergraduate...

Abstract Increasingly tight coupling and heavy connectedness in systems of (SoS) presents new problems for designers engineers. While the failure one system within a SoS may produce little collateral damage beyond loss capability, highly interconnected can experience significant when member fails an unanticipated way. It is therefore important to develop that are “good neighbors” with other by failing ways do not further degrade SoS’s ability complete its mission. This paper method (1)...