Axiomatic Design Manufacturing

Professor Christopher A. Brown
This title contains a video textbook in multiple modules of 10 to 20 minutes each. It is used for courses on Axiomatic Design of Manufacturing Processes, offered by Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Mechanical Engineering Department and two of its programs: Materials Science and Manufacturing. It includes a little course specific material as well as two larger parts of more general interest.
The first part on Axiomatic Design, and can be purchased separately. It teaches a powerful engineering design method, which is based on two axioms and a systematic decomposition of problems. This part includes:

AD Basics (11 modules)
Intro –What is design? Is design a scientific discipline?
What makes a design good?
Examples of Axiom One
How can a design solution be rendered semantically?
Decomposition rules
Example: ski bindings, steering columns, machine-machine interactions
Axiom 2
Constraints
Matrix and manipulation
Design reviews
Summary of basic AD

Intermediate AD (11 modules)
Introduction
FRs and Theme selection - CEME min
Decomposition techniques
Classification of procedural errors in FR definition - Thompson ICAD 2013
CNs and the requirements process - Thompson CIRP 2013
Kinds of coupling (ICAD paper from Florence)
Inheriting coupling – child to parent
AD of MFP considering coupling (Brown ICAD paper 2014)
Tolerances and the relations between FRs, DPs and PVs
Developing design equations
Summary, innovation, and value chain