Incorporating acoustics into your product design process significantly improves the user experience and overall quality of your product. With Sorama’s proven Acoustic Design Cycle, you can move beyond trial-and-error to a structured, user-centered, and iterative approach that delivers precise results.
What is the Sorama Acoustic Design Cycle? The Acoustic Design Cycle is a step-by-step process that helps product developers optimize sound throughout design and development. It is not just about reducing noise. It’s about gaining deep insights into the root cause of sound issues and developing targeted solutions.
By focusing on conscious competence—knowing exactly what works and why—you can reduce time to market, optimize product performance, and increase customer satisfaction.
Applying the Acoustic Design Cycle with Sorama’s CAM64 and CAM1K acoustic cameras companies create quieter, user-friendly designs that meet industry standards, while delivering premium sound experience. Products developed with acoustics in mind from the start, increase user satisfaction, reinforce brand value, and contribute to healthier environment.
The cycle begins with Research & Analysis to identify acoustic needs, followed by Specification & Modeling to set design rules based on stakeholder input.
In the Design & Creation phase, engineers create and refine prototypes. Our acoustic cameras, like the Sorama CAM64 en Sorama CAM1K, are crucial in Validation & Testing, where they pinpoint noise sources and visualize sound behavior. These insights enable engineers to improve product designs and sound quality. After this follows Evaluation & Communication, and often, after multiple iterations, the product is ready for launch.
This structured approach, along with data from acoustic cameras, allows for focused improvements in noise reduction, solving sound issues, and improving sound quality across various industries.
Excessive noise is a major inconvenience that directly impacts user comfort, health, product quality, and can even signal inefficiencies in design.
In industries like automotive, consumer electronics, and home appliances noise is often a byproduct of mechanical vibrations, poor material selection, or design flaws. Left unaddressed, these noises can degrade user experience, shorten product lifespan, and negatively affect brand perception.
Addressing complex sound issues without accurate, qualitative acoustical data is nearly impossible. Relying on trial-and-error methods or external acoustic consultants can be costly and time-consuming, often without pinpointing the root cause of the issue.
This is especially challenging in products with complex systems like engines or motors, where every component plays a role in sound transmission.
In product development, sound isn’t just something to minimize—sound design is a key part of how users perceive quality. Whether it’s the sound of a car engine, a home appliance, or a consumer electronic device, sound plays a huge role in shaping the user’s emotional and psychological response to the product.
High-quality sound can evoke a sense of luxury and reliability, while poor sound, like rattles or unpleasant frequencies, can make product feel cheap.
Once the source of unwanted sound is identified, our Source-Path-Receiver principle guides the problem-solving process:
Remove the source: Eliminate or replace components responsible for generating unwanted noise.
Change the sound path: Redirect or alter the route of vibrations to reduce how much noise reaches the end user.
Add dampening materials: When altering the design isn’t feasible, applying sound-dampening materials can significantly reduce the transmission of vibrations and noise.
This approach not only resolves sound issues but also improves product performance and longevity. By continuously testing and refining designs based on real-time sound data, manufacturers can ensure their product meets the highest acoustic standards, providing users with a product that is reliable and quiet.
You can read more about the Source-Path-Receiver principle in our blog that explains what to do after you have identified the source of your sound issue in your product.
5. Optimize sound paths and materials: Engineers can use the data to modify how sound waves travel within the product. For example, they might adjust the alignment of internal components, improve insulation around noisy parts, or replace materials that cause excessive vibration.
6. Fine-tune acoustics: Sorama’s CAM64 and CAM1K acoustic cameras visualize sound and identify areas where unwanted noise interferes with the desired sound profile.
7. Create premium experiences: By integrating principles from psychoacoustics—the study of how humans perceive sound—manufacturers can go beyond simply reducing noise. They can create sound experiences that align with user expectations.
1. Identify noise sources: Sorama’s CAM64 and CAM1K acoustic cameras help engineers precisely pinpoint noise sources by capturing and visualizing sound and vibration in real time as heatmaps
2. Optimize component performance: This detailed sound mapping shows the exact areas where unwanted noise originates, allowing for effective redesign or reinforcement of specific components.
3. Diagnose with precision: Sorama’s acoustic cameras offer real-time visualization of sound behavior, capturing how sound waves and vibrations travel through product materials and across components. This allows engineers to see exactly where the noise originates.
4. Uncover weak spots: Detailed sound mapping reveals areas where vibrations accumulate, allowing engineers to redesign housings, add dampeners, or reinforce structural elements to reduce noise.
Sorama Portal enables in-depth acoustic analysis without the need for acoustic expertise. Use advanced tools like spectrogram analysis and near field holography to visualize, compare, and investigate measurements from our cameras, generating detailed reports for resolving noise-related problems efficiently.
Our experts provide targeted solutions using Sorama’s acoustic cameras, saving time and cost. We deliver precise, actionable data through detailed sound analysis, either in our lab or at your site, without requiring in-house expertise or equipment investment.
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