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Innovative and Sustainable Design for Mechanics and Industry

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 10570

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Leonardo Frizziero

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: industrial and car design; computer aided design; design methods; augmented reality; 3D printing
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Prof. Alfredo Liverani

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Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, I-40136 Bologna, Italy
Interests: mechanical and industrial design; QFD; TRIZ; CAD; VR &AR; additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue entitled "Innovative and Sustainable Design Mechanics and Industry" aims to deepen the following arguments, oriented to improve Innovative and Sustainable Design towards new innovative products.

The problem of innovative and sustainable design is absolutely a priority in both advanced economies and in developing countries. If properly put into practice, the application of innovative design principles allows the realization of innovative products following innovative procedures that permit not only new concepts on the market, but also guarantee quality and reliability. The focus of this Special Issue is on research and case studies that examine the issue of innovative and sustainable design not only from a technical and engineering point of view, addressing innovative solutions, but also aesthetically, focusing on the main challenges and opportunities in the realization of products that reduce their negative impacts on the environment and simultaneously offer innovative and qualitative characteristics to the customers, becoming benchmarking products. Many instruments help designers to reach the above-mentioned goals: digital sketching, CAD 2D and 3D, Augmented Reality, Additive Manufacturing, QFD, TRIZ, DFSS, DfD, DfA, etc. Moreover, the significance of the problem of innovative design management requires an interdisciplinary approach to solutions and holistic visions for scenarios selection, which necessitates a special formation of the skills of professionals involved.

Please send research papers or case studies related to the following topics:

  • Specific elements of Italian Design and Made in Italy applied to sustainable and innovative products;
  • SDE—Stylistic Design Engineering (i.e., Ramacciotti method) applied to innovative and sustainable products;
  • ecoQFD applied to Sustainable Design;
  • TRIZ applied to ecoDesign;
  • Benchmarking applied to Sustainable Design Products;
  • Top-Flop Analysis for Green Design and Manufacturing;
  • Sustainable and Innovative Design for Additive Manufacturing;
  • Sustainable and Innovative Design for Assembly for Sustainability;
  • Design for Disassembly for Maintenance;
  • 4.0 Digital Prototyping (Augmented Reality);
  • 4.0 Physical Prototyping (Additive Manufacturing).

All research articles should be aligned with the themes described above and should deepen each argument in a strongly scientific way.

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Under the auspices of ADM (Italian Association of Mechanical Design)

Prof. Leonardo Frizziero
Prof. Alfredo Liverani
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Italian design
  • Sustainable Design
  • ecoDesign
  • ecoQFD
  • Stylistic Design Engineering (SDE)
  • Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
  • Digital Prototyping with Augmented Reality
  • Design for Additive Manufacturing

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A Reference Framework to Combine Model-Based Design and AR to Improve Social Sustainability
by Fabio Grandi, Riccardo Karim Khamaisi, Margherita Peruzzini, Roberto Raffaeli and Marcello Pellicciari
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 2031; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042031 - 14 Feb 2021
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Product and process digitalization is pervading numerous areas in the industry to improve quality and reduce costs. In particular, digital models enable virtual simulations to predict product and process performances, as well as to generate digital contents to improve the general workflow. Digital [...] Read more.
Product and process digitalization is pervading numerous areas in the industry to improve quality and reduce costs. In particular, digital models enable virtual simulations to predict product and process performances, as well as to generate digital contents to improve the general workflow. Digital models can also contain additional contents (e.g., model-based design (MBD)) to provide online and on-time information about process operations and management, as well as to support operator activities. The recent developments in augmented reality (AR) offer new specific interfaces to promote the great diffusion of digital contents into industrial processes, thanks to flexible and robust applications, as well as cost-effective devices. However, the impact of AR applications on sustainability is still poorly explored in research. In this direction, this paper proposed an innovative approach to exploit MBD and introduce AR interfaces in the industry to support human intensive processes. Indeed, in those processes, the human contribution is still crucial to guaranteeing the expected product quality (e.g., quality inspection). The paper also analyzed how this new concept can benefit sustainability and define a set of metrics to assess the positive impact on sustainability, focusing on social aspects. Full article
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The Convergence Management of Strategic Emerging Industries: Sustainable Design Analysis for Facilitating the Improvement of Innovation Networks
by Xue Wang, Baizhou Li and Shi Yin
Sustainability 2020, 12(3), 900; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030900 - 25 Jan 2020
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The overall high-end of strategic emerging industries can be effectively promoted by strengthening the inter-industry innovation linkage effect. This paper constructs a strategic emerging industry innovation network based on industry correlation. This paper studies the development trend of the whole network structure and [...] Read more.
The overall high-end of strategic emerging industries can be effectively promoted by strengthening the inter-industry innovation linkage effect. This paper constructs a strategic emerging industry innovation network based on industry correlation. This paper studies the development trend of the whole network structure and individual network characteristics and analyzes the influence of network structure characteristics on the attribute performance of each industry. The research results are as follows: (i) The innovation network as a whole was in a slight decline trend of low density during the sample investigation period, and the correlation level had great room for improvement. (ii) The high-end equipment manufacturing industry, the new materials industry, and the new-generation information technology industry occupy the center of the network, but their spillover effect on other industries is poor, and some industries even get more innovation benefits. (iii) The innovation network of China’s strategic emerging industries has the characteristics of cross-industry clustering, and the linkage effect between plates is insufficient, showing the characteristics of the “reflexivity” aggregation subgroup. (iv) The unreasonable connection mode of strategic emerging industries’ innovation network leads to the improvement of the centrality degree, which is not conducive to the innovation output of the industry. However, innovation output can be positively affected, to a certain extent, by improving the betweenness and closeness of the industries in the network. Full article
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Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Applied to a New E-Segment Sedan
by Daniela Francia, Giampiero Donnici, Gian Marco Ricciardelli and Gian Maria Santi
Sustainability 2020, 12(3), 787; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030787 - 21 Jan 2020
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 4175
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“Innovation activities” means all the scientific, technological, organizational, financial and commercial steps aimed at implementing innovation. Some innovation activities are themselves innovative, others are not new, but they are necessary for the implementation of innovation, such as Research and Development not linked to [...] Read more.
“Innovation activities” means all the scientific, technological, organizational, financial and commercial steps aimed at implementing innovation. Some innovation activities are themselves innovative, others are not new, but they are necessary for the implementation of innovation, such as Research and Development not linked to a specific innovation. Innovation has a close reference to the economic market, that is to say with the users of the innovated product: if these are not sufficiently developed they are not able to understand it and appreciate it. Innovation, making the process better, generates greater competitiveness: it is the dream of something better that translates into general well-being. This work presents an innovative hybrid car’s design, belonging to the E-segment. The choice of this segment is already innovative in its nature, as despite being currently in strong development, hybrid and electric engines are still little used for large sedans. The method we present in this paper for the car design is also innovative and is called Design for Six Sigma. It is a method used to develop new products, through the determination of customer and market needs and the transformation of these requests into the product generated. Full article
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