Enhancing intra-cognitive communication in product design with color-coded CAD models: A visualization approach
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Bertoni, A.; Ericson, A.
- Source
- 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom) Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on. :487-492 Dec, 2012
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Design automation
Visualization
Solid modeling
Engines
Data visualization
Decision making
Noise
- Language
Empirical investigation in the European aerospace industry has shown major drawbacks in the way design teams share information about the value contribution of a solution during early design stages. Across functions and organizations, design teams collaborate mainly using the contractual requirements as a basis, lacking of recording and communicating the contextual knowledge and the overall intent of product and service development projects. The paper proposes an approach that uses color-coded 3D CAD models for intra-cognitive communication of such value-related information to enhance the decision-making process in design. The paper first introduces the concept of product service systems and the benefits provided by visualization, afterwards it describes how value visualization can be implemented in a CAD 3D environment. A case study derived from the aerospace industry is presented to provide an example of application of the approach in a real industrial environment.