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Creative design through knowledge clustering and case-based reasoning

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New product design is inspired by the existing design. The clustering of similar design cases therefore enhances new product development (NPD). At the beginning of NPD, the success of creative design highly depends on the designers’ subjective judgments and try-and-error attempts due to its very obscure prospect. To facilitate an efficient approach for generating creative ideas, this paper proposes a new design method by integrating fuzzy relational analysis, case-based reasoning (CBR) and C-K theory. The proposed design method involves four specific sections: design criteria importance ranking; similarity measurement for design knowledge; knowledge clustering method for innovation and a step-by-step design algorithm. Moreover, a new battery buckling machinery is used as a empirical study to verify the workability of the proposed method. The contributed method shows its advantages to cultivate the inspirations from the existing design and generate creative design concepts from knowledge combination.

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    Wei Liu, Runhua Tan, Guozhong Cao, Fei Yu & Hui Li

  2. National Engineering Center for Technological Innovation Method and Tool, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin, 300401, China

    Wei Liu, Runhua Tan, Guozhong Cao, Fei Yu & Hui Li

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Appendix 1

Appendix 1

1.1 The list of potential cases that has functional similarity to design target

No.

Name

Serial number

Buckle (0.496)

Move (0.290)

Position (0.214)

Total similarity

1

One kind of button cell anode fastening ring means

CN201410213798.8

Buckle

Move

Position

0.999

0.520

0.280

0.200

2

New stamping die having one kind of intelligent positioning function

CN201711023359.0

Buckle

Move

Position

0.945

0.431

0.192

0.377

3

Cutting machine for battery pole plate

CN201720297745.8

Buckle

Move

Position

0.900

0.487

0.513

0

4

A high-frequency stamping punch

CN201720083552 0.2

Buckle

Move

Position

0.895

0.477

0.523

0

5

A rapid capping machine

CN201410173440.7

Buckle

Move

Position

0.922

0.538

0.462

0

6

Punching machine for automobile plastic parts

CN201710711406.4

Buckle

Move

Position

0.933

0.584

0/416

0

7

A circulating weapon firing device

CN201210079813.5

Buckle

Move

Position

0.913

0.762

0.238

0

8

A metal sheet rapid stamping device

CN201720329590.1

Buckle

Move

Position

0.872

0.789

0

0.211

9

A quick assembly system

CN201220364555.0

Buckle

Move

Position

0.932

0.448

0.160

0.392

10

A quick assembly machine

CN201620373877.X

Buckle

Move

Position

0.850

0.556

0

0.444

11

A O-ring quick assembly mechanism

CN201620507013.2

Buckle

Move

Position

0.987

0.431

0.279

0.290

12

A battery pole cutting mechanism

CN201110229078.7

Buckle

Move

Position

0.878

0.654

0

0.346

13

A button type battery cathode automatic buckle device

CN201210580090.7

Buckle

Move

Position

0.977

0.391

0.320

0.289

14

A button battery pole shell buckle mechanism

CN201310738750.4

Buckle

Move

Position

0.973

0.473

0.402

0.125

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Liu, W., Tan, R., Cao, G. et al. Creative design through knowledge clustering and case-based reasoning. Engineering with Computers 36, 527–541 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00366-019-00712-5

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