A digital modelling approach for design configuration and manufacturing exemplified by a self-balancing scooter
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Manuel Ramsaier; Markus Till; Theresa Breckle; Johannes Burkhart
- Source
- Procedia CIRP. 91:214-219
- Subject
- Integrated business planning
0209 industrial biotechnology
Scope (project management)
business.industry
Process (engineering)
Computer science
Interface (computing)
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
020901 industrial engineering & automation
Product (mathematics)
New product development
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Graph (abstract data type)
Software engineering
business
Representation (mathematics)
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
- Language
- ISSN
- 2212-8271
Today manufacturing companies are increasingly using digital tools to react to the increased product complexity. The process today, however, is still characterized by manual activities for changes or missing data continuity, which leads to errors in the digital models for the product and assembly system. Scope of this research is a complete digital representation of product development processes with the integrated planning process for the associated assembly system and its system configuration options. The processes are implemented by graph-based design languages based on diagrams of Unified-Modelling-Language. The unique approach enables the automatic generation and evaluation of several product variants as well as different assembly system configurations. This is illustrated by the example of the design of a self-balancing scooter and its assembly system configurations. A main research goal is to investigate the model-based integration of the different domains and to consider the product and assembly system variants in order to accelerate the planning process and achieve robust and congruent planning results. These can be evaluated based on different domain-specific key figures and thus the appropriate configuration of product and its assembly system can be selected. This paper concludes that product variant management remains challenging. Graph-based design languages improve the interface handling between different domains.