Traditional classical design methodologies consider (or do not consider at all) the question of the “delivery” at the latest stages of the overall machine design project. Most of the machine design projects are nowadays highly time-dependent, volatile and uncertain. Due to the nature of the design process itself (Inverse iterative problem with a large number of constraints to be satisfied) a new form of “design failure” occurs : the come up with a given satisfactory design iteration that is not available within the requested delivery time intervals of the overall project.
The current article intends to present a design methodology in 8 steps that organizes the overall machine design process in a way to avoid this problem.
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