Course: Designing and evaluating a technical product from viewpoints of properties

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Course title Designing and evaluating a technical product from viewpoints of properties
Course code KKS/DFX
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Tutorial
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Jára Jan, Ing.
  • Šedivý Lukáš, Ing.
  • Zíval František, doc. Ing. CSc.
  • Ventruba Zdeněk, prof. Ing. CSc.
  • Erben Jan, Mgr. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Material technical products such as technical systems (TS). Life cycle TS, characteristics, behavior and metavlastity of TS, their taxonomy and relationships. The principle of knowledge and methods of Solving (PSO), Solution Procedure (SOP), Design for X (DFX) and Prediction of X (POX). Basic knowledge and methods of PSO, SOP for design TS and DFX & POX for achieved reflective and accurated properties and early prediction and evaluation of the suitability of the key interdisciplinary properties and behavior of technical products, incl. Competitiveness potential for specified requirements for functions, reliability, repair, safety, ergonomics, appearance, manufacturing, transport, liquidability, environmental, production, operating and other costs, reactive and architectural design properties, etc. Throughout the life cycle of TS. Lectures: 1. Introduction 2. Solving and Solution Procedure Problem - Constructing as a solution to the problem and its synergistic application in the TS design 3. Solving and Solution Procedure Problem - TS requirements and project requirements, search solutions in alternatives 4. Solving and Solution Procedure Problem - Evaluation and Decision -making, Communication and Completion of Solutions, Continuous Parallel Activities 5. Technical System (TS) - its structures, life cycle, properties and behavior 6. Design and Prediction of Product Properties X (DFX & POX) - Fundamentals of the Theory and Methodology 7. DFX & POX to operating effects and operability of TS, Know-how and managerial information in life cycle TS 8. DfX & PoX to man and other living beings 9. DFX & POX to other technical systems and technologies in the TS life cycle 10.DFX & POX to active and reactive work, natural and space environment in the life cycle of TS

Learning activities and teaching methods
Project-based instruction
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 20 hours per semester
  • Team project (50/number of students) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 10 hours per semester
  • Presentation preparation (report) (1-10) - 4 hours per semester
  • Contact hours - 40 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to orientate himself in the knowledge of basic preparatory subjects of ghe general engineering education
to design technical products at the level of knowledge of machine desigh in bachelor's study
to understand the relationship between the construction structure of the product and its properties
to orientate himself in basic knowledge from theory (technical) systems
Skills
to present the designing ideas in the form of sketches
to perform technical calculations in connection with the design of technical products
to work with the software MS Office
learning outcomes
Knowledge
to identify a wider range of essential interdisciplinary properties of designed technical product, which are fundamental for its product-design competitiveness and are necessary for its product-buseness compotitiveness on the market
to specify the requirements for the proposed technical product in terms of its entire lifecycle
to evaluate the expected properties of the proposed technical product
Skills
to perform the engineering design process with respect to the sub-optimal fullfilment of requirements on the mentioned properties of designed technical product and early evaluation of their predicted achievement
to perform the engineering design task in terms of the essential interdisciplinary properties of technical product as a comprehensive task
to apply software means to efficiently setting of requirements for a future technical product with respect of its lifecycle and to predict the future features of the proposed product
teaching methods
Knowledge
Project-based instruction
assessment methods
Combined exam
Recommended literature
  • Hosnedl. Navrhování a hodnocení technických produktů. Podklady k přednáškám. Plzeň, ZČU, FST, 2022. Pl. 2022.
  • Hosnedl, S. Navrhování a hodnocení technických produktů. Case Examples ke cvičením bakalářským pracím. Plzeň, ZČU, FST. 2022. Plzeň. 2022.
  • Hosnedl, S. Systemic designing od technical products. Plzeň, ZČU, FST, 2009. 2009. Plze.
  • Hosnedl, S. Systémové navrhování technických produktů. Plzeň, ZČU, FST, 2009. Plzeň. 2009.


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