Samuel Peter Vogel

• Professor
• Professor at University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten

This paper sketches a new approach to model and digitizing the product design process. The design process is divided into the product world and the algorithm world. In the former, the product to be designed is represented in a hierarchical model. In the algorithm world all process steps are represented, starting from given requirements over the des...

In this paper an extension of the design method graph-based design languages is proposed. This is realized by adding object-oriented class methods and interface mechanisms to the design method. Additionally, graphical mechanisms for modeling and calling the methods are proposed. This allows object-oriented design patterns to be transferred to the p...

Digitalization in industry applies to all product life cycle’s stages. An automation of the early conceptual design phase promises to make use of the maximum benefit, since decisions in the early development phases have the greatest potential for reducing the product’s life cycle costs (Pahl et al. in Engineering design, a systematic approach. Spri...

Graph-based design languages are presented as a method to encode and automate the complete design process and the final optimization of the product or complex system. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used to represent the design language which models the design process. A design language consists of a vocabulary (i.e. the digital building blo...

Graph-based design languages in UML (Unified Modeling Language) are presented as a method to encode and automate the complete design process and the final optimization of the product or complex system. A design language consists of a vocabulary (digital building blocks) and a set of rules (digital composition knowledge) along with an executable seq...

The ongoing digital transformation in industry applies to all product life cycle's stages. The design decisions and dimensioning carried out in the early conceptual design stages determine a huge part of the product's life cycle costs (LCC). The automation of the conceptual design phase promises therefore huge gains in terms of LCC. Design grammars...

Combining subsystems to build a fully integrated product is a challenging task in complex systems design. The integration of flow components requires a fast creation and validation of different pipe route variants. In this article an algorithm for the automated generation of pipe routes in a given installation space is presented. The pipe route gen...

Die in den Industrie- und Schwellenländern gültige Emissionsgesetzgebung macht bei der Verwendung von Dieselmotoren eine außermotorische Abgasreinigung notwendig. Dies betrifft nicht nur Fahrzeuganwendungen auf der Straße, sondern auch Off-Highwayanwendungen wie Marine, Bahn und Industrie. SCR-Systeme (selective catalytic reduction systems) stellen...

Im digitalen Entwurf müssen verschiedene Teilsysteme ausgelegt und miteinander gekoppelt werden. Zur Beherrschung der Komplexität kann die Entwurfshandlung in Einzelschritte zerlegt werden. Analysiert man die mathematischen Dimensionen der zu integrierenden Teilsysteme im gemeinsamen Teil des Entwurfsraums, so lassen sich bevorzugte Entwurfssequenz...

Im Entwurf von SCR-Systemen (Selective Catalytic Reaction, SCR) zur Abgasnachbehandlung ist die Beherrschung der Anwendungs- und Variantenvielfalt eine Herausforderung. Insbesondere im Off-Highway-Bereich ist der Entwickler mit verschiedensten Fahrzeugvarianten bei unterschiedlichsten Lastkollektiven konfrontiert. Zudem machen strenge Emissionsrich...

KNOWLEDGE-BASED DESIGN OF SCR-SYSTEMS USING GRAPH-BASED DESIGN LANGUAGES The ability to cope with different applications and system variants is a big challenge when designing exhaust aftertreatment systems. Especially in the off-highway application area designers are faced with many different vehicle variants featuring lots of different load profi...