Teaching

Course content:

- Structure and description of technical products
- Basics of development process
- Basics of design methodology
- Design principles for the design of products
- Analysis of technical products

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Grundlagen der Konstruktion

Course content:

- in-depth theoetical and practical knowledge and skills
  in the field of Computer-Aided Product Development
- Fundamentals and application of advanced CAx concepts
  and techniques (from Requirements Management to
  Model-Based Systems Engineering until Simulation and PDM/PLM)
- Overview of current challanges and solutions in industrial
  practice and research
- Methodological competence to solve tasks independently in
  the field of integrated Virtual Product Development

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Virtuelle Produktentwicklung

Course content:

- Objectives and possibilities of influencing the product design
  (X oriented designing)
- Basic design rules and design principles for selected product properties
- Guidelines, patterns and examples for X-compliant designs
- Design guidelines for manufacturing-oriented design for the
  following manufacturing processes: casting, bending, cutting, welding, etc.
- ... with practical exercises in the seminars

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Gestaltungslehre

Course content:

- Way of working in development
- Introduction to cost and activity accounting
- Determination of product costs in the design stage
- Design critique (product evaluation and improvement)
- Measures to reduce manufacturing costs

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Kostenrechnung

Course content:

- Introduction to the methodology of parametric modelling
  with a 3D CAD system,
- Basic rules of program operation,
- creation of 2D sketches, 3D modelling
- Derivation of drawings of individual parts and assemblies,
- Assembly of modelled individual parts and standard parts

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

CAD basic course (module Darstellungslehre)
CAD advanced course (module Maschinenelemente 1)

Course content:

- Basics of design (technical drawing, basics of product development,
  CAx basics)
- Machine elements (strength calculations, mechanical connections,
  movement elements)
- Material- and production-oriented design
  (design guidelines for individual parts and assembly)

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Werkstofforientierte Konstruktion

Course content:

- Development process (Systems Engineering),
- Methods for a systematic approach to finding solutions - Systems Thinking,
- Methods of evaluation and decision-making,
- The transition between function - solution principle - detail design,
- Application of model-based approaches,
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in product development

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Entwicklungsmethodik

Course content:

- Error in technical products
- Error analysis, error handling as a problem-solving cycle
- Error analysis and detection of error influences factors
- Evaluation of the error influences, risk analysis
- Measures to improve the error behaviour
- Classification of design criticism in the design process

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Fehlertolerante Konstruktion

Course content:

- Analysis of the mode of operation of essential mechanical and
  non-mechanical elements and assemblies of machines
- treatment of important machine-technical effects and phenomena
- Consideration of design, manufacturing and testing aspects
- Completion of experiments on the content of the
  Elective complex "General Mechanical Engineering"

Teaching materials in the Moodle course:

Maschinentechnisches Praktikum