MANAGING FUNCTIONAL TRADE-OFFS IN THE MECHANICAL DESIGN OF INTEGRATED PRODUCTS USING MULTIOBJECTIVE MONOTONICITY ANALYSIS

Abstract With the continuously increasing integration of (mechanical) products, identification and management trade-offs becomes a major task in product synthesis, with substantial effect on optimality robustness final solution. At same time, rigorous comprehensive study through mathematical design optimisation is often impractical design, as efforts spent modeling optimizing are likely wasted if chosen changed. Extending research configuration redesign based multiobjective monotonicty analysis (MOMA), this paper presents three levels evaluation for early or redesign: (I) informal evaluation, (II) opportunistic (III) exhaustive evaluation. The level depends what knowledge designer wants to gain, higher level, larger effort, lesser re-use information gained from initial MOMA respectively. approach illustrated using novel drug delivery device, Self-Orienting Millimeter-Scale Applicator (SOMA), oral protein compounds such insulin.