Study on the implementation method of concurrent design based on I-deas

摘要

For a long time, product development has been performed by a sequential approach that treats each of the design steps individually without considering requirements of manufacturing, assembly and other downstream activities in the product life cycle. The lack of systematic and simultaneous consideration on the impact of design decisions on manufacturing and assembly leads to repeated and excessive modification in design. To resolve this problem, the concurrent design approach was proposed to reduce the cost and time of product development and improve product quality. In this paper, the implementation method of concurrent design based on I-deas is studied, some issues in implementing concurrent design are addressed, such as creation of task tree, people reconstruction, license specification, user definition, process reconstruction, coordination technique, etc. Finally, an example of decelerator design is given to illustrate the implementation process. The result shows that the time to develop a new decelerator is reduced significantly and the quality of the product can be also improved to some extent.