Design and development of integrated framework for mechatronics based new product development

Abstract

New Product Development (NPD) is a process that describes the steps involved in bringing a new concept to the market, based on changes in customer requirements or desires. The basic customer requirements, wants newlineand preferences for a new product are usually identified through a field newlinesurvey. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary field of science with the newlinesynergetic combination of mechanical, electronic, computer, communication newlineand control engineering. A mechatronics system picks up signals from the newlineenvironment and transforms them to other forms of energy like transformation newlineof input force into its corresponding motion and action. newlineIn the development of a mechatronics system design, there is a newlinenecessity to develop models for both physical and logical properties of the newlineproduct. No single best approach exists for the design of mechatronics newlinesystems that integrate the mechanical structure with electronic components. newlineThe customer requirements received from survey are vague or uncertain in newlinenature which leads to an inefficient and imprecise decision making. Hence newlinefuzzy based Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) models can be newlineinvolved in conceptual design stage that converts intangible customer needs newlineinto appropriate concept specifications for the NPD. In the present research, an integrated approach for mechatronics newlineproduct design that focuses on conceptual design phase using NPD techniques newlinelike Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM), Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling newline(FISM), Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (FANP) and Fuzzy Quality Function Deployment (FQFD) and Fuzzy Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (Fuzzy FMEA) is proposed. newline newline