Fundamentals Around Mechanical Design

Generally, mechanical design is a process of defining the design, for generating various products, devices, structures, with the aid of applications and techniques in it. To begin with the topic, which is biased on two parts for defining the structure.

They are foundational elements, which is necessary for all mechanical design industries with the irrespective of the domain products or industries and the add-on elements are modified as per the categorized specific industry and products.

Manufacturing Design Domains

The role of design varies from industry to industry, as well as mechanical design incorporated with numerous streams called as design domains. Some of them categorized below:

Surface Design and plastic domain – the process of designing the plastic product by applying the surface infrastructures.

o Aerospace industry

o Toy industry

o Electric – mechanical industry

o Automobile industry

Product Design Domain – the product design is around to generate products and usable experiences, commencing with interpretation of problems of real people and analysing the possible solution.

o Automobile industry

o Aerospace industry

o Advertising industry

o Electrical and electronics industry

o Pharma and medical industry

Sheet Metal domain – the process of modifying the metal into thin sheet by rolling or bending technique.

o Automobile industry

o Electro – mechanical industry

o Food and advertising industry

Mould design domain (casting) – the designing factor which depends on the dimension and place of moulding.

o Heavy machinery industry

o Automobile industry

o Aerospace industr

Special purpose machines (SPM) design – these machines are not accessible off the self and not manufactured according to the standard manufacturing program. So, this kind of domains are designed as per the customers specialized requirements and called as Bespoke machines. Numerous types of SPM designs are available, namely:

o Special automobile design

o Customized design

Design analysis domain – the domain which is essential for analysing the products as well as assisting in finalising the product.

o Automobile industry

o Product analysis

o Static analysis

o Fluid analysis

Basics Procedures of Mechanical Design

• Find a problem – give solution in the form of design

• Brainstorm – group thinking or discussion

• Researched and idea generation – why, what, who, how.

• Identify criteria and specify constraints – redefine solution

• Explore possibilities – possible ways for solution

• Select an approach – final selection of best possible solution

• Develop design proposal – sketches, 2D models, 3D models, assembly

• Make a model or prototype – study model

• Test and evaluate the prototype – testing and results

• Refine the design – required changes

• Create or make solutions – finalising the design

• Communicate processes and results – final work before manufacturing the product.