Design of a recycled plastic part: Methdology and application

The process of design is a complex procedure wich often involves the knowledge of different concepts such as mechanical, electrical and also transformation rules and processes, that are necessary to take into account in order to fullfill the part requirements. The designer task is to transform previous requirements and ideas into dimensions and final real shapes. However, many times, requirements are totally or partially unknown and suppositions have to be done, to accomplish that, the designer has only its skills and the use of a design methodology. The aim of this paper is to describe a design methodology and its application to a component made with recycled plastic.