Decision-making in engineering design : theory and practice /

Decision-making in engineering design : theory and practice /

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Imprint:London : Springer, c2006.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 265 p.) : ill.
Language:English
Series:Decision engineering
Decision engineering.
Subject:
Engineering design -- Decision making.
Engineering design -- Decision making.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8879239
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Other authors / contributors:Hatamura, Yōtarō.
ISBN:9781846282614
1846282616
1846280001 (hbk.)
9781846280009 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other form:Print version: Decision-making in engineering design. London : Springer, c2006 1846280001 9781846280009
Table of Contents:
  • 1. What are Decisions?
  • 1.1. Understanding the Decision Process
  • 1.2. What It Is to ""Make Decisions""
  • 1.3. Route to Decisions
  • 1.4. Decisions and Doubts
  • 2. Describing and Transferring the Decision Process
  • 2.1. The Need to Know the Decision Process
  • 2.2. Method of Recording and Transferring the Decision Process
  • 2.3. Actual Methods for Transferring Decision Processes
  • 2.4. Diagrams for Expressing the Decision Process
  • 2.5. Example of Recording the Decision Process
  • 2.5.1. Describing What Happened
  • 2.5.2. Processes and Contents from This Event
  • 3. Decisions in Design
  • 3.1. Questions about Design
  • 3.2. The Mind's Decision Process During Design
  • 3.3. Constraints and Evaluation of Design
  • 3.4. Describing the Design Content
  • 3.5. Designers Want to Know the Reason for the Designs
  • 3.6. Design Support Systems the Designer Wants
  • 4. Sample Decisions in Design
  • 4.1. Hydraulic Cylinder - the Mind Process of Designing One
  • 4.2. Designed a Torque Sensor
  • 4.3. Designed a Positioning Table
  • 4.3.1. Design Specification of the Positioning Table
  • 4.3.2. Analyzing the Functional Requirements
  • 4.3.3. Discussing and Determining the Basic Mechanism
  • 4.3.4. Producing the Structure
  • 4.4. Built an Intelligent Grinding Tool for Producing Flat Wafer Surfaces
  • 4.5. Planned and Proposed the Nanomanufacturing World Project
  • 4.6. Developed the Control System for Automatic Grinding of Turbine Blades
  • 4.7. Built ""Creative Design Engine"" for Assisting Idea Generation
  • 4.8. Guided Students' Free Imagination in Building Stirling Engines
  • 5. Real Decisions in Manufacturing
  • 5.1. Decision-Making in Technology Development
  • 5.1.1. Finding Out the Real Safety System at Mt Usu - Thinking 1
  • 5.1.2. Designed a Pressure Sensor Exposed to Severe Conditions - Thinking 2
  • 5.1.3. Reduced the Weight of an Automobile Compressor - Thinking 3
  • 5.1.4. Automated the Narita Express Car Junction Hood - Thinking 4
  • 5.1.5. Developed a Telescopic Arm Clamshell Digger - Development 1
  • 5.1.6. Developed an Automatic Segment Construction Robot for Sealed Tunnels - Development 2
  • 5.1.7. Developed a System for Preventing Mobile Crane Overturn - Development 3
  • 5.1.8. Modified the Lighting Unit of a Wafer Character Recognition Machine - Practice 1
  • 5.1.9. Succeeded in Laser Welding by Controlling Its Tip Distance - Practice 2
  • 5.1.10. Applied IC Tagging for Managing Metal Mold Parts - Practice 3
  • 5.1.11. Modified a Sandblast Machine for PDP Class Substrate Machining - Practice 4
  • 5.1.12. Installed a New Cable on a Multi-Joint Robot - Modification 1
  • 5.1.13. Modified a Material Cooling System but Could Not Cut the Cost - Modification 2
  • 5.1.14. Successfully Anchored a Floating DNA Fiber in Liquid - Research 1
  • 5.1.15. Made DNA with Fluorescent Molecule Visible in Liquid - Research 2
  • 5.1.16. Built a Microscopic Assembly Tool - Research 3
  • 5.1.17. Accomplished Wide-Range High-Precision Positioning - Research 4
  • 5.2. Decision-Making in Technology Management
  • 5.2.1. Selected a 3D CAD System - System Introduction 1
  • 5.2.2. Arbitrarily Selected a CAM System - System Introduction 2
  • 5.2.3. Evaluated a Technology for Breaking Rocks with Electromagnetic Force - Technology Introduction 1
  • 5.2.4. To Introduce a New Forming Method to Our Main Factory or Not - Practical Solution 1
  • 6. Decisions about Individuals and Organizations
  • 6.1. Decisions about Occupations
  • 6.1.1. Jumped to a Small Company for a New World - Job Change 1
  • 6.1.2. Moved from Manufacturing to Consulting - Job Change 2
  • 6.1.3. Moved from a Company to School for a Diploma - Job Change 3
  • 6.1.4. Resigned from a Trading Company and Became Independent - Entrepreneurship 1
  • 6.1.5. Started a New Business in the US for Building a Bridge over the Pacific - Entrepreneurship 2
  • 6.1.6. I Became Disabled and Selected the Course of My Life - Turning 1
  • 6.1.7. Jumped into an Unexplored Research Area - Turning 2
  • 6.1.8. Built a New Lab and Research Group in a Conventional Field - Turning 3
  • 6.2. Decisions about Corporate Management
  • 6.2.1. My Company will Disappear in One and a Half Years - Operation 1
  • 6.2.2. Forced an Organizational Change in a Traditional University - Operation 1
  • 6.2.3. Located a New Factory - Investment
  • 6.2.4. Selected My Successor and Recommended Him - Resources 1
  • 6.2.5. Restructured a Department with My Own Thoughts and Failed - Resources 2
  • 6.2.6. Started a Young Engineers Training Program - Management 1
  • 6.2.7. Applied to a MITI Project but I Was Declined - Management 2
  • Applying the Mind Activity for Manufacturing
  • 7.1. Where in Manufacturing to Apply the Mind Activity
  • 7.2. Decisions by INCS
  • 7.3. Implementation by INCS
  • 7.4. Outcome of the INCS Development
  • 7.5. Where Does This Lead Us to in the Future?
  • Postscript
  • Index

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