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Introduction | |
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The Engineering Designer | |
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Tasks and Activities | |
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Position of the Design Process within a Company | |
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Trends | |
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Necessity for Systematic Design | |
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Requirements and the Need for Systematic Design | |
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Historical Background | |
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Current Methods | |
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Aims and Objectives of this Book | |
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Fundamentals | |
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Fundamentals of Technical Systems | |
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Systems, Plant, Equipment, Machines, Assemblies and Components | |
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Conversion of Energy, Material and Signals | |
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Functional Interrelationship | |
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Working Interrelationship | |
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Constructional Interrelationship | |
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System Interrelationship | |
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Systematic Guideline | |
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Fundamentals of the Systematic Approach | |
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Problem Solving Process | |
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Characteristics of Good Problem Solvers | |
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Problem Solving as Information Processing | |
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General Working Methodology | |
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Generally Applicable Methods | |
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Role of Computer Support | |
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Product Planning, Solution Finding and Evaluation | |
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Product Planning | |
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Degree of Novelty of a Product | |
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Product Life Cycle | |
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Company Goals and Their Effect | |
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Product Planning | |
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Solution Finding Methods | |
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Conventional Methods | |
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Intuitive Methods | |
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Discursive Methods | |
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Methods for Combining Solutions | |
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Selection and Evaluation Methods | |
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Selecting Solution Variants | |
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Evaluating Solution Variants | |
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Product Development Process | |
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General Problem Solving Process | |
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Flow of Work During the Process of Designing | |
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Activity Planning | |
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Timing and Scheduling | |
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Planning Project and Product Costs | |
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Effective Organisation Structures | |
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Interdisciplinary Cooperation | |
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Leadership and Team Behaviour | |
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Task Clarification | |
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Importance of Task Clarification | |
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Setting Up a Requirements List (Design Specification) | |
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Contents | |
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Format | |
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Identifying the Requirements | |
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Refining and Extending the Requirements | |
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Compiling the Requirements List | |
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Examples | |
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Using Requirements Lists | |
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Updating | |
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Partial Requirements Lists | |
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Further Uses | |
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Practical Application of Requirements Lists | |
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Conceptual Design | |
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Steps of Conceptual Design | |
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Abstracting to Identify the Essential Problems | |
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Aim of Abstraction | |
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Broadening the Problem Formulation | |
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Identifying the Essential Problems from the Requirements List | |
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Establishing Function Structures | |
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Overall Function | |
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Breaking a Function Down into Subfunctions | |
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Practical Applications of Function Structures | |
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Developing Working Structures | |
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Searching for Working Principles | |
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Combining Working Principles | |
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Selecting Working Structures | |
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Practical Application of Working Structures | |
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Developing Concepts | |
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Firming Up into Principle Solution Variants | |
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Evaluating Principle Solution Variants | |
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Practical Application of Developing Concepts | |
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Examples of Conceptual Design | |
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One-Handed Household Water Mixing Tap | |
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Impulse-Loading Test Rig | |
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Embodiment Design | |
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Steps of Embodiment Design | |
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Checklist for Embodiment Design | |
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Basic Rules of Embodiment Design | |
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Clarity | |
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Simplicity | |
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Safety | |
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Principles of Embodiment Design | |
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Principles of Force Transmission | |
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Principle of the Division of Tasks | |
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Principle of Self-Help | |
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Principles of Stability and Bi-Stability | |
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Principles for Fault-Free Design | |
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Guidelines for Embodiment Design | |
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General Considerations | |
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Design to Allow for Expansion | |
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Design to Allow for Creep and Relaxation | |
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Design Against Corrosion | |
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Design to Minimise Wear | |
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Design for Ergonomics | |
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Design for Aesthetics | |
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Design for Production | |
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Design for Assembly | |
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Design for Maintenance | |
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Design for Recycling | |
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Design for Minimum Risk | |
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Design to Standards | |
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Evaluating Embodiment Designs | |
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Example of Embodiment Design | |
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Detail Design | |
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Mechanical Connections, Mechatronics and Adaptronics | |
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Mechanical Connections | |
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Generic Functions and General Behaviour | |
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Material Connections | |
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Form Connections | |
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Force Connections | |
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Applications | |
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Mechatronics | |
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General Architecture and Terminology | |
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Goals and Limitations | |
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Development of Mechatronic Solutions | |
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Examples | |
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Adaptronics | |
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Fundamentals and Terminology | |
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Goals and Limitations | |
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Development of Adaptronic Solutions | |
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Examples | |
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Size Ranges and Modular Products | |
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Size Ranges | |
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Similarity Laws | |
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Decimal-Geometric Preferred Number Series | |
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Representation and Selection of Step Sizes | |
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Geometrically Similar Size Ranges | |
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Semi-Similar Size Ranges | |
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Development of Size Ranges | |
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Modular Products | |
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Modular Product Systematics | |
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Modular Product Development | |
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Advantages and Limitations of Modular Systems | |
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Examples | |
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Recent Rationalisation Approaches | |
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Modularisation and Product Architecture | |
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Platform Construction | |
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Design for Quality | |
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Applying a Systematic Approach | |
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Faults and Disturbing Factors | |
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Fault-Tree Analysis | |
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Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) | |
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Quality Function Deployment (QFD) | |
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Design for Minimum Cost | |
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Cost Factors | |
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Fundamentals of Cost Calculations | |
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Methods for Estimating Costs | |
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Comparing with Relative Costs | |
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Estimating Using Share of Material Costs | |
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Estimating Using Regression Analysis | |
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Extrapolating Using Similarity Relations | |
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Cost Structures | |
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Target Costing | |
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Rules for Minimising Costs | |
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Summary | |
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The Systematic Approach | |
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Experiences of Applying the Systematic Approach in Practice | |
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References | |
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English Bibliography | |
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Index | |