Loughborough University
Leicestershire, UK
LE11 3TU
+44 (0) 1509 263171

Loughborough Design School

School staff

Yudhi Ariadi

PhD research student

Design Practice Research Group

Tel +44 (0) 1509 226966

Email Y.Ariadi@lboro.ac.uk

Location LDS 1.23

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Personal profile

Yudhi holds a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from Brawijaya University, Indonesia. After graduating in 1996, he worked at an automotive industry, ISUZU Astra Motor Indonesia for 5 years, first as a Product Planner and later as a Product Design Engineer. He then moved to the next step of product development, and worked at an automotive tool manufacturing as a tool design engineer at FUJI Technica Indonesia for more than 6 years.

From 2003 to 2004, he learned automotive dies design and manufacturing in FUJI Technica Inc., at Mishima, Japan, funded by the Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship (AOTS) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan.

In 2008-2009, Yudhi was a researcher at Lancaster Product Development Unit, Lancaster University, UK. His research was part of Rapid Manufacturing North West (RMNW) project funded by the European Union (EU) and the Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). After completing the project, he also gained his MSc by Research in Engineering.

After back to Indonesia in 2009, Yudhi obtained lectureship at Mechanical Engineering Department of State Polytechnic of Jakarta, Indonesia and part time teaching at Astra Manufacturing Polytechnic.

Recently, he has been awarded a full-funded research from the Loughborough Design School undertaking PhD from December 2010 and expects to complete in 2014.

Supervisors

Dr Mark Evans, Leader of Design Practice Research Group

Dr. Ian Campbell, Director of the Research School of Design

Research

Yudhi's primary area of research is investigating the potential of Consumer Design and exploring the possibility for customers to undertake all of the product creation process from design to manufacture. Several developments in field of CAD have led to a renewed interest in how to make design in 3D modelling more easily. Moreover, in terms of manufacturing systems several studies focus on the Additive Manufacturing (AM) that allows consumers to create products more easily. These technologies augment non-technology compliant consumers and bring the manufacture to become closer to consumers. Consequently, to make AM more reliable to operate by consumers, design areas need to be developed as simplistic as the AM technologies have. This research suggests Computer-aided Consumer Design (CaCODE) as a user-friendly design system by offering modifiable design templates for consumers who would perform aspects of the design and thereby endorse the manufacture of the products themselves.

Publications

Ariadi, Y., Rennie, A.E.W., Design Templates for Consumer Use in Customising Additive Layer Manufactured Products, proceeding of the 9th National Conference on Rapid Design, Prototyping and Manufacturing, Lancaster, UK, 2008. ISBN 978-0-948314-55-1. pp. 137-144.

Ariadi, Y., Hasan, S., Smith, P., Rennie, A.E.W., Development of an Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) Business Model: Creating an Environment to Support Designers from Concept to Distribution, proceeding of the 32nd Japan Rapid Prototyping Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 2008. pp. 79-84.

Ariadi, Y., Rennie, A.E.W., Templates for Consumer Use in Designing Customised Products, proceeding of the 19th International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, Texas, US, 2008. ISSN 1053-2153. pp. 450-458.

Sinclair, M., Campbell, R.I., Ariadi, Y., and Evans, M.A., AM-enabled Consumer Design, proceeding of the Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa (RAPDASA), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa , 2011.

Ariadi, Y., Campbell, R.I., Evans, M.A. and Graham, I.J., Combining Additive Manufacturing with Computer Aided Consumer Design, proceeding of the 23rd International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin, Texas, US, 2012.

Campbell, R.I., de Beer, D.J., Mauchline, D.A., Becker, L., van der Grijp, R., Ariadi, Y., Evans, M.A., Additive Manufacturing as an Enabler for Enhanced Consumer Involvement, proceeding of Rapid Product Development Association of South Africa, Kwa Maritane, Planesberg National Park, 2012.

Mentioned by

Scott, J., Gupta, N., Weber, C., Newsome, S., Wohlers, T., Caffrey, T., 2012. Additive Manufacturing: Status and Opportunities. Science and Technology Policy Institute, The Institute for Defense Analyse. Washington, DC, USA. p7.

Wohlers, T., 2012, Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing State of the Industry, Annual Worldwide Progress Report. Colorado, USA. p 207.

Galleries

The galleries of 3D models, created by Yudhi, are embedded form 3DVIA (Dassault system), the website that offers 3D viewer through the webpages without any CAD viewer needed (but still need plug in), so the models can actually be viewed in 3D environment (rotating, zooming and panning).

3DVIA Top 10 Models - week 002 - a toycar

3DVIA Top 10 Models - week 014 - a toycar: Halloween truck

3DVIA Top 10 Models - week 064 - a toycar: Dragcula

3DVIA Top 10 Models - week 066 - an automotive trimming die

3DVIA Top 10 Models - week 061 - an organic shape: Sphere Kenar

A Cheapest ConceptCar

This simple car design is made due to reduce the cost of production. There are so many ways to create an affordable car from materials to manufacturing processes. This particular car design concept aims to cut down the investment tools. I try to make common components as many as I can, so it reduces the number of moulds/dies: Common door for left, right and back. Common bumper for front and rear. Common mirror for left and right. Common lamp for front-left, front-right, rear-left and rear-right.