In current practice, design documentation often fails
to support the activities of design understanding,
communication, and redesign. A Design History Tool has been
developed to improve current design documentation. This
tool is a computerized design history that represents and
plays back important information generated during the
process of designing a mechanical system.
This tool not only documents the final design results,
but also documents the constraints developed and decisions
made in the evolution of a product from initial
specifications to final detailed design. This tool supports
design understanding, communication, and redesign. It
allows designers, manufacturing engineers, and management
personnel to review and examine an existing design.
For playback, the Design History Tool provides four
major browsing capabilities: a} browsing design artifacts
from isometric drawing, design hierarchy, to details of a
product; b) browsing design evolution from the initial
specifications to the final detailed design; c) browsing
design rationales and alternatives behind each design
decision; and d) browsing constraint dependencies. To
enhance the browsing capabilities, different interfaces have
been developed to allow the users to efficiently retrieve
and easily understand the design information. / Graduation date: 1992
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/36223 |
| Date | 01 July 1991 |
| Creators | Chen, Ai-hua |
| Contributors | Ullman, David G. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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