Integrated Cross-Component Lightweight and Material-Oriented Development Methodology - The Embodiment Design Cycle

Abstract

Increasing demands on shorter lead times in development and production (time-to-market) while broadening the diversification of the product spectrum, and with it the substantial gains on functionality, safety and reliability, but also quality and cost savings, lead to extensive multi-criteria analyses and optimization processes on a high degree of complexity. Although this can nowadays be handled in an appropriate manner for an individual component design, in terms of a holistically efficient lightweight design a further consideration of a combined and correctly chosen (constructive and technological) joint section design of two or more adjacent parts, and thus a more systemic view is indispensable, but until now mostly neglected. Therefore, and to overcome these hitherto untapped potentials in lightweight engineering, this contribution presents a detailed view on the multi-cross-dimensional, three-step embodiment design cycle of structurally loaded components and subassemblies inside an integrated lightweight and material-oriented development (LMOD) methodology framework.