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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s10033-020-00519-2

Intelligent Manufacturing Technology

Triple-Helix Structured Model Based on Problem-Knowledge-Solution Co-evolution for Innovative Product Design Process

  • Qian Hui ,
  • Yan Li ,
  • Ye Tao ,
  • Hongwei Liu
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  • 1. Innovation Method and Creative Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 610065, China;
    2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

收稿日期: 2019-07-26

  修回日期: 2020-11-05

  网络出版日期: 2021-03-12

基金资助

Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51435011)

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Triple-Helix Structured Model Based on Problem-Knowledge-Solution Co-evolution for Innovative Product Design Process

  • Qian Hui ,
  • Yan Li ,
  • Ye Tao ,
  • Hongwei Liu
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  • 1. Innovation Method and Creative Design Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu 610065, China;
    2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Received date: 2019-07-26

  Revised date: 2020-11-05

  Online published: 2021-03-12

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51435011)

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摘要

A design problem with deficient information is generally described as wicked or ill-defined. The information insufficiency leaves designers with loose settings, free environments, and a lack of strict boundaries, which provides them with more opportunities to facilitate innovation. Therefore, to capture the opportunity behind the uncertainty of a design problem, this study models an innovative design as a composite solving process, where the problem is clarified and resolved from fuzziness to satisfying solutions by interplay among design problems, knowledge, and solutions. Additionally, a triple-helix structured model for the innovative product design process is proposed based on the co-evolution of the problem, solution, and knowledge spaces, to provide designers with a distinct design strategy and method for innovative design. The three spaces interact and co-evolve through iterative mappings, including problem structuring, knowledge expansion, and solution generation. The mappings carry the information processing and decision-making activities of the design, and create the path to satisfying solutions. Finally, a case study of a reactor coolant flow distribution device is presented to demonstrate the practicability of this model and the method for innovative product design.

关键词： Innovative design; Problem-knowledge-solution co-evolution; Design activity; Design process; Product design

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Qian Hui , Yan Li , Ye Tao , Hongwei Liu . Triple-Helix Structured Model Based on Problem-Knowledge-Solution Co-evolution for Innovative Product Design Process[J]. Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2020 , 33(6) : 94 -94 . DOI: 10.1186/s10033-020-00519-2

Abstract

A design problem with deficient information is generally described as wicked or ill-defined. The information insufficiency leaves designers with loose settings, free environments, and a lack of strict boundaries, which provides them with more opportunities to facilitate innovation. Therefore, to capture the opportunity behind the uncertainty of a design problem, this study models an innovative design as a composite solving process, where the problem is clarified and resolved from fuzziness to satisfying solutions by interplay among design problems, knowledge, and solutions. Additionally, a triple-helix structured model for the innovative product design process is proposed based on the co-evolution of the problem, solution, and knowledge spaces, to provide designers with a distinct design strategy and method for innovative design. The three spaces interact and co-evolve through iterative mappings, including problem structuring, knowledge expansion, and solution generation. The mappings carry the information processing and decision-making activities of the design, and create the path to satisfying solutions. Finally, a case study of a reactor coolant flow distribution device is presented to demonstrate the practicability of this model and the method for innovative product design.

Key words： Innovative design; Problem-knowledge-solution co-evolution; Design activity; Design process; Product design

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