Parametric Design Platform With Load-Based Instability Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing engineering design systems face high computational loads, data repetition, project delays, human error, and miscommunication due to the fragmented nature of tools used for creating facility designs, which are often performed manually or using multiple platforms.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based Integrated Design Suite with a graphic module for 3D model visualization and a solver module for load analysis, allowing for automatic updates and notifications of model instabilities, and parametric design to ensure model integrity and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual design methods and fragmented tools are used, then design flexibility and control are maintained, but design time increases significantly and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple fragmented design tools into a single integrated design platform that combines 3D modeling, process flow diagrams, and automated analysis capabilities. This integration eliminates the need to switch between multiple platforms, automatically synchronizes data across different design representations, and reduces manual data transfer time, thereby significantly improving productivity while maintaining design flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary automated actions by pre-calculating design parameters, pre-validating model integrity, and pre-generating analysis results based on parametric definitions. When design parameters are modified, the system automatically updates related components and re-performs necessary calculations without requiring manual intervention, thus reducing overall design time while maintaining control over the design process.
2Reliability
If multiple separate tools and platforms are used for design creation, then specific design functions can be performed, but data repetition and computational load increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a unified data model that serves as a single source of truth for all design information. This centralized model eliminates data repetition by ensuring that process information, structural data, and material properties are defined once and automatically available to all design tools and analysis functions within the platform, thereby maintaining reliability while eliminating redundant data entry.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated platform provides universal data structures and interfaces that can be used across multiple design functions and analysis types. The same parametric model serves as the basis for 3D visualization, structural analysis, process simulation, and other engineering tasks, eliminating the need for separate data sets for each function and reducing computational overhead.
3Ease of operation
If complex manual design processes are used, then detailed control over each design element is maintained, but human error and miscommunication increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor design model integrity, parameter consistency, and compliance with engineering standards. When errors or conflicts are detected, the system provides immediate feedback to the designer through notifications and warnings, allowing for quick correction before errors propagate through the design process, thereby maintaining ease of operation while significantly reducing the error rate.
Solution Approach 2:
The design platform performs self-validation and self-correction functions by automatically checking model integrity, validating parametric definitions, and ensuring consistency across different design representations. The system can automatically resolve certain types of conflicts and errors without requiring manual intervention, reducing human error while maintaining detailed design control through the user interface.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for parametric design and verification of a model of a design are provided. The system comprises a user interface for receiving data input by a user, a graphic module for displaying an environment where the model is generated, the graphic module configured to display one or more components of the model selected by the user, and a solver module for receiving information on the model being generated. The information including the data input by the user which may include one or components for the model and the respective properties of the components. The solver module is configured to analyze one or more loads of each component of the model to determine one or more instabilities present in the model. The instabilities are presented to the user optionally with suggested updates.