Sessions
Session 27
Configuration and Choice Navigation: Configuring the Configurator
Tuesday Oct 6 2009
15:30-16:50
Haug, Anders (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Hvam, Lars (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Mortensen, Niels Henrik (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Lundvald, Susanne (Novenco, Denmark)
Holt, Peter (Novenco, Denmark)
Implementation of conceptual product models into configurators: From months to minutes
For years the use of software-based product configurators has produced a number of benefits for engineering-oriented companies. However, achieving such benefits can be challenging, and often configurator projects do not succeed. A main reason for such failures is that the tasks of developing and maintaining configurators often are very challenging and time-consuming. With a focus on reducing the efforts needed for development and maintenance of product configurators, this paper describes an emerging technology that makes it possible to automate the conversion of conceptual product models made by ordinary product experts into the knowledge base of a configurator, and the other way around. Thus, this new technology enables new ways of carrying out the tasks of configurator development and maintenance. This paper defines the new use patterns that the technology enables and deduces the possible benefits compared to existing approaches. To investigate if the new technology can fulfil its great promises, a case study is presented in which the technology has been applied.
Haug, Hvam, Mortensen, Lundvald, Holt -paper pdf
Piroozfar, Poorang (University of Brighton, United Kingdom)
Popovic Larsen, Olga (Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark)
Piroozfar, Ghashang (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Mass-matching: Developing a quasi-game toolkit for a customer-driven design process in Building Industry
This paper investigates an idea of a game-like toolkit with which the customer is able to design their favourite composition or combination of a series of pre-defined or pre-designed modular components. The novelty of this idea lies where the modularity in its modern industrial concept in general and with special reference to its established interpretation in construction industry will be scrutinised. This will be done by considering the size range, the dimensional coordination and the interfaces whether it is between identical or different components; or between components and the embracing platform. The main aim remains to be the least interference possible with the customer freedom of playing and choice. However, despite many other manufacture industries, the construction industry is bound to many physical and functional restrictions. It will be argued that these restrictions can be minimised, should the toolkit be devised appropriately for the application in the construction industry both in the mathematical and geometrical sense.
Piroozfar, Popovic, Larsen, Piroozfar -paper pdf
Dressel, Günter (cyLEDGE Media GmbH, Austria)
Frühwirt, Wolfgang (cyLEDGE Media GmbH, Austria)
Open Toolkit - An Open Source Software System for Building Product Configurators
Presentation
Dressel, Fruehwirt -presentation pdf
Curteza, Antonela (“Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iasi, Romania)
Kalao?lu, Fatma (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
Heinen-Foudeh, Yvonne (Gerber Technology - A Gerber Scientific Company, United States)
Mass Customization for Persons with Special Needs
The life quality improvement issue is a problem of general and international interest. This acquires total different values when it is to refer to a series of disadvantaged categories that is (i.e.) the persons with locomotor disabilities. To improve the life quality of the persons with locomotor disabilities it is necessary to approach an inter/transdisciplinary integrative concept of design (design for all), which should conduct to the development of advanced materials and of highly functional textile products and personalized garments, oriented to the necessities of this disadvantaged category of people.