隨著科技與產業越來越先進下,產品的設計結構和技術應用的複雜度日益上升,在產品設計階段促使許多非預期或失效問題發生。仿生學為模仿生物的結構和功能來解決人類的技術問題,而生物存活至今,必然有其生存法則,若能將其原理或構造應用於產品設計上,針對產品進行失效情形的改善,排除或降低失效問題發生,大幅提升產品整體可靠度,以利產品創新設計的進行。 本研究提出一個新的產品設計方法,改良萃智(TRIZ)理論中的預期失效分析且結合功能分析和仿生學概念,透過關鍵詞彙檢索合適生物案例,使設計者有系統地找出潛在失效模式,再應用生物類比方式找到創新發想解,最後則利用生態網路分析概念,提出一改良型生態食物網矩陣,計算出最大特徵值,使設計者具體判斷產品的整體使用穩定性。本研究也成功地引用案例驗證此方法的可行性,其成果期待能作為創新產品設計之參考。
With new technological and industry advances, the complexity of product structures increases to certain extend, it will accelerate potential failure factors happened. Biomimicry is the practice of making technological design copying natural processes. Life on earth began for a long time ago, the survival of organisms must have its survival rules. If its principles or structure can be applied to product design, the failure factors of products can be eliminated and the design can be improved. This research provides a new a methodology of innovative product design. This study revised the “Anticipatory Failure Determination” tool which is used in the TRIZ method and combines functional analysis and biomimicry concepts. By establisng keywords to search for biological cases to enable designers to find out suitable cases to apply biological princple into solve products’ potential failure. Moreover, this study integrates ecological network anaylsis and creates a new ecological food web matrix to evaluate the stability of the new product by calculating the maximum eigenvalue. The results show the capabilities of the proposed method and processes.