Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications (MIT-Pappalardo Series in Mechanical Engineering) - Hardcover

Suh, Nam Pyo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195134664 ISBN 13: 9780195134667

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Design education, research, and practice have recently seen considerable evolution as university programs, researchers, journals, and conferences systematize design as a discipline and science. Nam P. Suh's book Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications contributes to this systematic and scientific base and presents a fresh perspective on design, establishing a rational framework for the discipline. The book follows Suh's successful publication, The Principles of Design (OUP 1990), although the two books are substantially different in both content and approach. The first three chapters of Axiomatic Design cover the fundamental principles of axiomatic design. The following chapters offer a complete treatment of the design of systems, software, materials and materials processing, manufacturing systems, and product design. Suh shows how a scientific and systematic approach to design improves efficiency, productivity, savings, reliability, and quality for industries that currently rely on ad hoc design systems; Axiomatic Design contains the principles and practical knowledge necessary to achieve these improvements. Perfect for senior and graduate design and mechanical engineering students as well as professional engineers, this unique text offers the tools necessary to design with ease and elegance and serves as a stepping-stone in the ever-evolving intellectual science of design.

Features
· Applies the principles of axiomatic design to a variety of real-life situations including mechanism design, software engineering, and basic business processes
· Includes numerous integrated case studies using axiomatic design to solve real-life design challenges
· Draws material from consulting cases with industrial firms throughout the world
· Requires no prerequisite reading (The Principles of Design can be read for clarification)

About this title

About the Author:

Nam Pyo Suh is at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Review:

"This is an original and innovative book, which builds upon and extends the area covered in Nam Suh's first book, The Principles of Design. Given Suh's eminence and far-sightedness, I think the book will be of considerable interest it a general readership, and particularly to university staff." John Crookall, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0195134664
• ISBN 13: 9780195134667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528