제품디자인 적용을 위한 공학적 임바디먼트 디자인 단계의 특성

In general, a product is developed for a mass consumption and utilization through mass production. For this reason, development of a new product needs a systematic process, and the process itself also needs to be managed efficiently from end to end. Such product development process is, in the end, a series of problem-solving activities since it is essentially about establishing a market demand or idea as a problem and then solving it systematically. This process, in the field of engineering, is called “engineering design process.” This research is to study the embodiment design phase of the engineering design process, to compare it with product design cases, and to finally find meaningful implications. With this objective in mind, Germany’s Pahl/Beitz model and UK’s BS7000 model, the two most representative engineering design methodologies, were first compared and analyzed in order to study the theory of the engineering design process. After that, the embodiment design phase, which is included in both of the models, was studied in depth before comparing it with some cases in product design area. This research found that the core tasks to be done during the embodiment design phase in engineering design process are determining the product architecture and executing parametric design. Nevertheless, these two tasks are already appreciated as important steps to take in product design also. That is because the trend of approaching technological product development with concurrent engineering has become a common practice. In production design, however, there are quite a number of variables related to design elements such as functionality, material, shape, or mass production that exist in addition to engineering-related variables. Hence, an in-depth study on embodiment design concept from a design perspective that reflects such attributes of product design area needs to follow.