Design Optimization for Creativity and Balance

Abstract

Effective collaboration in product design and manufacturing is one of the most promising methodologies for obtaining superior product design solutions, as explained in earlier sections. The system design optimization strategies explained in Sect. 6.4 can be applied in creative optimization scenarios where a number of group members work collaboratively. In Sect. 8.1, product design decisionmaking methodologies and procedures based on collaboration are described and contrasted with group decision-making based on game theory. Since product manufacturing depends upon a broad range of industries, the success or failure of such groups of people and corporations has considerable cultural impact. The manufacturing techniques used and the quality of the designs produced are crucially important to the sustainable success of such endeavors, and the cooperation of various entities, despite conflicts, is seen as being more effective in the long run than the maintenance of narrow self interests. In Sect. 8.2, the interrelated nature of environmental and cultural impacts of product design and manufacturing are discussed, in terms of the need for increasingly sophisticated and practical product design optimization methods and strategies.