Session: DTM-05 Design Theory: Studies on Iteration, Search, and Prototyping

Paper Number: 71746

Start Time: August 17, 03:20 PM

71746 - What Happened to Roth’s Design Catalogues? - A Review of Usage and Future Research 

In 1971, Roth and his group initially proposed an algorithmic selection procedure for the design with catalogues. A main element in this procedure were Design Catalogues containing established solution elements as well as models and operations for different design tasks. In a series of books and guidelines, the concept of Design Catalogues was promoted and extensive catalogues were elaborated. These works point out the basic character of Design Catalogues as structured information bases, with content, structure and access criteria adapted to the needs of engineering. Over the years, Design Catalogues were recognized in science and industrial practice as tools to structure and provide knowledge about solutions, operations or objects frequently used within the design process. In this contribution the use and evolution of Design Catalogues in engineering design science and practice is discussed from a retrospective point of view. The objective is to point out how Design Catalogues and underlying methods and tools for the structuring of design knowledge were used in the different fields of application. Therefore, a literature review and two interviews are performed to describe the evolution of Design Catalogues over a periode of fifty years. Based on the findungs, it is discussed how current technologies like pattern recognition and dynamic representation of knowledge can be used to develop Design Catalogues in future.

Presenting Author: David Inkermann Technische Universitaet Clausthal

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David Inkermann Technische Universitaet Clausthal