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Critical factor identification in medical device development through supervised learning
Jankovic, Marija; Medina, Lourdes; Kremer, Gül; Yannou, Bernard // 2013
This paper investigates the impact of different variables in Medical Device Development (MDD), where FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval time is considered as a performance variable. To ...
Customer integration in the pre-development stage of new products: Management process proposal
González, Mario O. A.; Toledo, José C. // 2013
The aim of this paper is present a process management support to customer integration in the pre-development of new products. The proposal was conceived from a literature review and case studies in ...
Decision support for regional telehealth integration: A system dynamic approach
Jean, Camille; Jankovic, Marija; Le Cardinal, Julie; Bocquet, Jean-Claude // 2013
The purpose of this article is to use System Dynamics approaches for decision support. Telehealth is proposed in many articles as one of the possibilities to answer the challenges of keeping and ...
Deploying decision criteria in a cyclical decision process for the product planning phase
Schenkl, Sebastian A.; Spörl, Sebastian; Behncke, Florian G. H.; Orawski, Robert; Mörtl, Markus // 2013
During the planning process of future products or the future product portfolio, ideas for future market opportunities are generated and within a parallel decision process, the best ones are selected. ...
Design for functional requirements enabled by a mechanism and machine element taxonomy
Lee, Szu-Hung; Jiang, Pingfei; Childs, Peter RN // 2013
A process providing an option for engineers and designers to separate the consideration of functional requirements and movement requirements to encourage diverse thinking has been developed and ...
Design for lifecycle profit with a simultaneous consideration of initial manufacturing and end-of-life remanufacturing
Kwak, Minjung; Kim, Harrison // 2013
Remanufacturing is emerging as a promising solution for achieving green, profitable businesses. This paper considers a manufacturer that produces new products and also remanufactures products that ...
Design of a healthcare service: Teledermatology
Duong, Tu Anh; Le Cardinal, Julie; Bocquet, Jean-Claude // 2013
Teledermatology (TD) is an application of telemedicine i.e. clinical healthcare using IT-technologies, for skin disorders. This past decade, several publications have studied its feasibility and ...
Do user driven innovation and ecodesign enrich or fight one another, and does sufficient methodologies for combining the two exist?
Herskind, Mathies; Sidelmann, Kristian // 2013
This paper is a theoretical investigation and case study of the presently highly debated and much referenced terms ‘ecodesign’ and ‘user driven innovation’, with the aim of illuminating the ...
Eco-design guidelines and eco-knowledge integration in product development process
Rossi, Marta; Germani, Michele; Mandolini, Marco; Marconi, Marco; Mengoni, Maura; Morbidoni, Alessandro // 2013
The product eco-sustainability is recognized as a key factor for competitive products and recently lots of international directives (guidelines) have been issued. This paper aims to define a new ...
Enabling organizational changes for development of product-service system offers
Wallin, Johanna; Chirumalla, Koteshwar; Isaksson, Ola // 2013
The manufacturing industry is going through a transition from developing of products to the provision of product-service systems (PSS). Earlier research has identified different types of PSS offers, ...
Enhancing supply chain collaboration in automotive industry by value driven simulation
Panarotto, Massimo; Larsson, Tobias C.; Larsson, Andreas // 2013
This paper presents a computer-based approach for conceptual design that aims to enhance collaborative supply chain development in the automotive sector when dealing with product-service development ...
Exploring featherweight industry PLM solutions for academic use
Barrie, Jeff; Owen, Geraint // 2013
There is no doubt that PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions are improving data sharing and decision making during product development in industry and beyond. CAD (Computer Aided Design) and ...
Exploring the design of mousetraps
Gundersen, Gunnar H. // 2013
Based on a case study of a collection of a couple of hundred mousetraps this paper presents a systematic categorisation of their principles of technical construction, material consistence and ...
Extending the product specification with emotional aspects: Introducing user experience stories
Michailidou, Ioanna; von Saucken, Constantin; Lindemann, Udo // 2013
Emotional aspects of products play a vital role for the purchasing decision but are often neglected in conventional product development processes. In the task clarification design phase, in ...
Forming a method mindset: the role of knowledge and preference in facilitating heuristic method usage in design
Daalhuizen, Jaap; Person, Oscar; Gattol, Valentin // 2013
ourse on design theory and methodology, we investigated method usage for five activities in the basic design cycle: (1) analysis, (2) synthesis, (3) simulation, (4) evaluation and (5) ...
Formulation and use of criteria for the evaluation of aesthetic attributes of products in engineering design
Roussos, Lampros; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2013
Constant and rapid technological progress, along with the evolution of design and production methods, permits the adoption of technological achievements and the embodiment of new features in ...
Geometry as a tool for visual organization and proportion in designing aesthetic and attractive products
Velásquez Posada, Alejandra María // 2013
The goal of this paper is to present the teaching experiences and methodologies used in a Product Design Engineering undergraduate course called Design Project 3 (EAFIT University, Medellín - ...
GINI index based attribute selection for product configurator design
Wang, Yue; Tseng, Mitchell // 2013
Product configurator system is an important tool to bridge customer needs and company’s offering. It has been widely accepted in industry to facilitate customized product design. However the ...
Idea relevancy assessment in preparation of product development
Stevanovic, Milan; Marjanovic, Dorian; Storga, Mario // 2013
In order to maximize the prospects it is necessary to thoroughly evaluate a number of ideas proposed and estimate their potential for new product development. Ideas description, evaluation and ...
Improved design methodology practice: successful matching of tasks and employees
Hinsch, Malte Sebastian; Heller, Jan Erik; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2013
Choosing the right employees for a given task has great influence on the quality of the results and the time needed. Executives who have to decide, which employees are best suited for a task, often ...
Integration of evaluation and simulation methods for virtual prototypes
Christophe, Francois; Mokammel, Faisal; Coatanéa, Eric; Bakhouya, Mohamed // 2013
This article combines evaluation and selection of early design concepts into a methodology at different stages of the development process. A web-based evaluation environment to support this ...
Investigation of internal and external design teams during the product development process in footwear companies.
Capra, Andréa; Bernardes, Maurício Moreira e Silva // 2013
This paper aims to analyze the management of internal and external design teams during the product development process in two footwear companies of Paranhana Valley in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A ...
Issues in organisation and management of multidisciplinary group design projects
Keating, Ken; Brougham, Claire; Gavin, Graham; Reilly, Ger // 2013
In education project teams that reflect organisational concepts considered normal in industrial design teams have a range of benefits for learning and graduate employability. They present a range of ...
Linking of function carriers with physical contradictions
Ognjanovic, Milosav; Babic, Jasmina; Vasin, Sanja // 2013
The current trend in the new product development is horizontal integration of various fields of technical solutions and principles of action (mechanical, electrical, software, etc). In order to ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.