 Kristian Amadori has made use of design automation to design microlights. The colored parts are simplified representations of components that need to be included in order to fly.
Even at the design stage, one can make use of automation. There is tremendous potential for streamlining. There is so much to gain, says Kristian Amadori, who recently defended his thesis in the field.
The complexity of the products as home appliances, mobile phones and
cars. The products are getting more and more functions, thus increasing
the demand for engineers.
While the development work go faster and faster. Simply hiring more
people in the design departments will not solve the problems, it also
needs to find new methods and tools, says Kristian Amadori, researchers
at Linköping University.
By automating the design process using one computer to quickly repeat a
task based on given instructions. This frees more time for the designer
to be creative.
Kristian Amadori also sees other advantages of automation, for example,
that the errors are fewer and the earlier designs are more widely used.
Moreover, he believes that innovation in the design process can be enhanced.
In the beginning when you are designing something new, these are usually
of statistics to assess characteristics of the design. And statistics
will not get you to design something revolutionary. But if you can
build the model much faster, it may instead be possible to measure
properties directly cadmodellen.
When construction work is to automate shared product to be designed into the parts.
Then, a so-called generic model of each component. The generic model is
provided with information on what is required and then reproduces
copies automatically adapts to the surroundings.
Kristian Amadori gives an example of an airplane wing, which consists of
beams along with the wings and ribs running across the joists. The rib should always have the same shape as the wing where the rib is
located. Then you can build a generic model of a frame and then say I
want ten frames. Then customize each model its shape so that the rib
fits into the wing, he says.
In her thesis presents Kristian Amadori a methodology for developing the
generic model. The methodology has proved useful for various CAD
programs.
He himself has used it to construct a micro aircraft and parts of a full-scale aircraft.
According to Kristian Amadori is a huge efficiency potential in
automating the design work. In a company, he has seen time savings of
up to 90 percent. While there are a lot of resistance to automation.
There are very many examples of how you do it the old way and say you do not have time. We think it's a little weird.
You have accepted that you have automation in production, we think it is
equally obvious that one can automate parts of the design work as well,
says Kristian Amadori.
The basic principles of automating the design is now part of Linköping
university degree in civil engineering in mechanical engineering and
design and development.
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