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Concept Design In Virtual Reality Of A Forestry Trailer Using A Qfd-Triz Based Approach, Kenan Melemez, Giuseppe Di Gironimo, Gianpiero Esposito, Antonio Lanzotti

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

Trailers are used to carry logs having specific dimensions for logging extraction operations, secondary transportation, and agricultural activities. The main objective of this study was the design of a timber trailer capable of manual loading operations and suitable for rough terrain conditions to be used in combination with a farm tractor in the western Black Sea region of Turkey. In the proposed methodology, a House of Quality diagram was used to transfer customer requirements into quality characteristics, and focus the development of the product toward customer satisfaction. Negative correlations between quality characteristics were solved using the TRIZ contradiction toolkit and …