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ROBUST MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH RESPECT TO USER-SCENARIO AND MANUFACTURING UNCERTAINTIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Philipp Wolniak ,
Jakob Cramer  and
Roland Lachmayer
Philipp Wolniak*
Affiliation:
Leibniz University Hannover
Jakob Cramer
Affiliation:
Leibniz University Hannover
Roland Lachmayer
Affiliation:
Leibniz University Hannover
*
Wolniak, Philipp, Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Product Development, Germany, [email protected]

Abstract

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In product development, user-scenarios are a way of tailoring requirements to defined customer groups. Furthermore, a product design often involves multiple conflicting objectives that are analyzed within an iterative process. The models typically used for the analysis often do not accurately reflect the real-world representation. This can be alleviated by finding robust product designs. While usually uncertainties due to manufacturing tolerances are investigated, we additionally consider uncertainties in the user-scenario. Therefore, we present a robustness evaluation in a multi-objective numerical optimization in product development. For this, we consider manufacturing tolerances using an adjusted Latin Hypercube Sampling as well as deviations in the user-scenario by means of a Gaussian distribution. In the case study, we present the robust development of a customer specific coffee machine, where we show the robustness evaluation and the impact of the proposed adjustments. The advantage of the presented process is a product design tailored to the customer's requirements under specified uncertainties. In addition, this enables a time benefit in the product development due to the automated analysis used in the optimization.

Keywords

Robust designMulti-objective optimizationUser-scenarioUncertaintyComputational design methods
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 2591 - 2600
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