Resumen de The Development of a Design Method for Production Machinery Companies
This paper presents the development of a design method tailored to support designers within production machinery companies. The proposed approach was developed based on the perceived views from designers within these companies with regard to formal design methods proposed in the literature. The method is based upon a chart-based collection of appropriate design guidelines. A study which was undertaken on a new design of sub-assembly of a high-accuracy machine tool was used to test the method, and this is also presented.
