DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

Benchmarking, proceso de diseño, adaptación, vehículo, accesibilidad, process design, adaptation, vehicle, accessibility

Article type:

COLABORACION/COLLABORATION DAMR

Section:

COLLABORATIONS

This article shows the importance of Benchmarking as a strategy applicable to the design of products, focusing on this case in obtaining vehicles adapted to persons with reduced mobility. The design process and the proposal obtained shows that adaptation is the most important element: First with the adaptation of a disabled person to an environment; second with the adaptation of environmental elements to the design process from the starting point. From this second view, the common thread has been the inclusion of the technique of Benchmarking in the design process; through different modifications of existing designs and objects, showing that the observation of the environment and the adaptability of existing solutions should be a working tool in the design product process.
In addition to adaptation, this paper try to explain the suitability of the solutions adopted and the parameters to take into account in each Benchmarking. Therefore, the calculations made in the process of adaptation from the observed to the designed have been omitted -although they have been done- because the objective was to show the usefulness of Benchmarking and their adaptation from the point of view of design.
Reflecting the importance of the proposed process, as well as of the solution, the development of this project has been awarded with the first prize in the competition organized by the Renault Foundation for Sustainable Mobility in 2014.

Key Words: Benchmarking, process design, adaptation, vehicle, accessibility.

In addition to adaptation, this paper try to explain the suitability of the solutions adopted and the parameters to take into account in each Benchmarking. Therefore, the calculations made in the process of adaptation from the observed to the designed have been omitted -although they have been done- because the objective was to show the usefulness of Benchmarking and their adaptation from the point of view of design.

Reflecting the importance of the proposed process, as well as of the solution, the development of this project has been awarded with the first prize in the competition organized by the Renault Foundation for Sustainable Mobility in 2014.