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CodesignS

Research Group

Main organisation:DESIGN & OPTIMISATION
Lifecycle:9 May 2015 →  Today
Organisation profile:

Designprocesses become more and more challenging andcomplex as there is a drive in product design to increase performance, functionalities,number of variants, user friendliness, etc. The Flanders Make core lab CodesignSperforms research on model based designmethodologies and prototypes tools to support product designers during the complex design process of a product,product family or assembly cell. The design methods assist the designer in making the correctdesign choices and trade offsbetween performance, costs, etc. We developamong other:

·        Generationand analyzing different design alternatives for products and assembly lines;

·        Methodsto find the optimal mechatronic system, e.g. drivetrain, or assembly cell;

·        Methodsto optimize the design of a product and its components to for example reduceweight, increase performance;

·        Methodsto optimize a family of products;

·        Methodsto integrate the process of the functional safety standards in the design;

·        Implementationof multi-disciplinary concurrent design.

Keywords:Model based design, Computer-supported design, Concurrent design, Drivetrains, Assembly cells, Product family, Functional safety
Disciplines:Modelling, Design theories and methods, Safety engineering