Abstract
Engineering design guidelines are a means of sharing knowledge and information explicitly. Past work points out that the structure of a design guideline is key to improve its usefulness, but that there is still a lack of a uniform specification. This paper presents a mobile eye tracking study with sixteen practitioners from industry and investigates how novelly structured design guidelines, which aim to support the embodiment design of screw joints, impact design engineers’ performance. A baseline group with access to a former design guideline and a follow-up group with access to a novel design guideline structure were compared. Results show that design engineers’ performance during embodiment design was improved through access to the novel structure, compared to the performance of those participants with access to the former design guideline structure. The novel structure allowed design engineers to spend less time on the design guideline, while achieving significantly better designs at the same time.
Zusammenfassung
Konstruktionsrichtlinien sind ein Mittel, Wissen und Informationen explizit zu teilen. Frühere Arbeiten zeigen auf, dass die Struktur einer Konstruktionsrichtlinie entscheidend sei, um deren Nützlichkeit zu verbessern, es an einheitlichen Spezifikationen einer Struktur jedoch mangle. Dieser Beitrag untersucht mittels einer Mobile Eye Tracking-Studie mit sechzehn Teilnehmern, wie neuartig strukturierte Konstruktionsrichtlinien, die den Konstrukteur beim Gestalten von Schraubverbindungen unterstützen sollen, die Konstrukteursleistung beeinflussen. Verglichen wurde die Leistung von Konstrukteuren, die Zugang zu einer Konstruktionsrichtlinie mit bisheriger Struktur hatten mit der von Konstrukteuren, die Zugang zu einer neuartig stukturierten Konstruktionsrichtlinie hatten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Leistung der Konstrukteure mit Zugang zur neuartig strukturierten Konstruktionsrichtlinie im Vergleich zur Leistung derer mit Zugang zur Konstruktionsrichlinie mit bisheriger Struktur verbessert wurde. Die neuartige Struktur ermöglichte es den Konstrukteuren, weniger Zeit mit der Konstruktionsrichtlinie zu verbringen und gleichzeitig signifikant bessere Konstruktionen zu erzielen.
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Reimlinger, B., Lohmeyer, Q., Moryson, R. et al. Improving design engineers’ performance through novelly structured design guidelines: a study in and with industry. Forsch Ingenieurwes 84, 11–19 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10010-019-00380-3
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