The application of manufacturing culture to the design of Asian region oriented machine tools
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Abstract
During the last years the demand for regionally and culturally harmonised machine design is increasingly on the agenda. The problem of localising products like machine tools instantly poses the question for new procedures that allow including the regional and cultural adaptations into the design processes of machine tool companies. How to transform the general insight into the necessity of culture- and region-adapted technologies and how to embed it into a design procedure comprising applicable design attributes is the crucial problem addressed. The paper shows in an exemplary way how ambiguous design attributes can eventually be embodied in a prototype design.
Keywords
Culture- and region-harmonised design Design attributes Machine tools Manufacturing cultureNotes
Acknowledgements
Parts of this paper are taken from “Investigation for Manufacturing Culture-Related Specification of Asian-Oriented Machine Tools” in No. 09041122 of the International Scientific Research Program: Field Research in 1997 and 1998.
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