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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (23): 227-239.doi: 10.3901/JME.2022.23.227

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Research & Application of Product Innovation Method Incorporating RE and BID

LIU Xiaomin, YANG Dong, CHEN Liang, FAN Shuai   

  1. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350116
  • Received:2022-03-07 Revised:2022-09-16 Online:2022-12-05 Published:2023-02-08

Abstract: Aiming at the re-innovation of existing products, the choice of innovative methods and the clarity of innovative direction, a process model of product innovation combining reverse engineering (RE) with biologically inspired design (BID) was proposed. First, existing products based on RE, their functional models were established through structural decomposition, behavior matching, and functional construction. Secondly, product user needs being collected through demand evolution analysis, importance calculation, and function evolution, the product concept function was re-innovated to form a new function to be solved model. Finally, based on RE modelling method of the biological system to search for and sort out biological cases using the established biologically inspired design auxiliary system, the new functions of system-assisted solution were obtained to make product re-innovation schemes. Taking the protective clothing used by medical staff in the shelter hospital as an example, it is verified that the product innovation methods of RE and BID have a good feasibility.

Key words: reverse engineering, bio-inspired design, demand evolution, product innovation, protective clothing

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