A Design to Environment Modelling Approach based on Time Variation Networks

Maud Rio (1) , Andreas Riel (1) , Shinsuke Kondoh (2)

1 G-SCOP_CPP - Conception Produit Process
2 AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Multidisciplinary collaboration from different domains and expertises became a necessity to address the environmental aspects in innovative design decisions and development. Designing to Environment involves overlap of information used and created by the diversity of product design expertises. It remains difficult for product designers and environmental experts to interrelate their respective parameters. This prevents product designers to converge toward environmentally aware design choices. This research therefore investigates the use of time Parameter Network Models to follow the emergence of environmental parameters linkage with product designer expertises’ parameters. An industrial cooker hood design process case study explores the co-creation of local environmentally-aware knowledge between product designers based on this parameter linkage. Interesting opportunities are identified to furthermore translate parameter linkage in transformation rules between entities and parameters models. After instantiation such rules would allow dynamic and flexible information exchanges between product designers’ and environmental expertises’ activities along the design process.

Mots clés: Integrated Design; Design to Environment (DtE); Design Parameter Modelling

Domaines: Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]

Maud Rio, Andreas Riel, Shinsuke Kondoh. A Design to Environment Modelling Approach based on Time Variation Networks. CIRP Design 2018, May 2018, Nantes, France. pp.229-234, ⟨10.1016/j.procir.2018.03.133⟩. ⟨hal-01902467⟩