Generative design has the potential to unlock unprecedented opportunities in product development by capturing the diverse requirements placed on components and, on the basis of a formalized representation of these requirements, largely automatically generating optimized design variants.
Within the research consortium, generative design is to be employed to counteract the farreaching consequences of the high energy and resource consumption of our society. With this aim, the research consortium “FORAnGen” seeks to enable future-oriented product development through the design of sustainable products using generative design. The focus of the planned consortium lies in supporting the development of products that are not only energy- and resource-efficient—and thus environmentally friendly—but also robust and resilient with respect to a wide range of boundary conditions and disturbances.
The objective of the FORAnGen research consortium is therefore to provide an answer to these diverse challenges through the use of generative design. This approach enables a more efficient design of optimized components and products compared to conventional product development methods that do not employ generative design. To this end, the still relatively young approach of generative design will be extended to include aspects of manufacturing assurance and sustainability assessment in order to make it suitable for practical application.
Achieving this goal will enable companies to efficiently develop responsible products that meet industrial requirements while simultaneously reducing their ecological footprint. The practical implementation of generative design and the integration of sustainability aspects will make a decisive contribution to promoting future-oriented and sustainable product development within the Bavarian economy.
The four academic partners provide a broadly based foundation for the research consortium through their complementary expertise. The Chair of Engineering Design and CAD at the University of Bayreuth and the Chair of Product Development and Lightweight Design at the Technical University of Munich focus on requirements capture as well as the software-based implementation and integration. The Chair of Manufacturing Technology at Friedrich- Alexander University Erlangen–Nuremberg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology in Augsburg are responsible for the manufacturingoriented implementation of the developed concepts and for ensuring process reliability. This interplay of different areas of expertise enables the research consortium to develop a comprehensive approach to the challenges addressed and to identify innovative solutions.
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