INTELLIGENT MECHANISM TO SUPPORT DFX-ABILITIES IN AUTOMATED DESIGNER'S ENVIRONMENT

Asis well known,time,quality and cost havebeen the three key criteria of product competi-tiveness in the market,and now the focus isplacedon product development time reduction,fromwhich other metricsprobably can be obtained.Thewhole product design and development process iscarried out along the timeline of product life- cycle.At the stage of design decision making,70 % to80 % of the productlife cycle value is formed attheexpense of about2 0 % of productlife cycle1] .So itwill be the mosteffec…

INTELLIGENT MECHANISM TO SUPPORT DFX-ABILITIES IN AUTOMATED DESIGNER'S ENVIRONMENT

The paper aims at providing a computerized design environment to support product design practically. The authors solved this problem by taking the product life-cycle issues into consideration as more as possible during the design process from the designer-oriented perspective of view. Design for X-abilities (DFX) is an effective approach to this philosophy. So the paper mainly presents the infrastructure of an intelligent DFX mechanism which is the essential part of the developed product design environment. At first the designer-oriented computer environment DesignerSpace is introduced for understanding the designer how to implement design activities and DFX method better. In order to integrate design knowledge from downstream aspects for the optimization and the design decision-making, an intelligent DFX mechanism is developed to incorporate knowledge base, algorithm-base and monitoring/debugging tools. DesignerSpace is implemented with DFX abilities and applied to the blisk design of aircraft engine and the further development is strongly intended.