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Naturally emerging decision criteria in product concept evaluation
Nikander, Jan B.; Liikkanen, Lassi A.; Laakso, Miko // 2013
nt. Concept decisions define the success of both the project and the product to a great extent. Previous research has shown that structured methods are often not used properly or at all in design ...
Operationalization of the quadrant-based validation in case of a designerly software development methodology
Du Bois, Els; Horvath, Imre // 2013
Systematic validation of design methods is important to advance the professional practice of engineering design. In contrast, we lack structured approaches for validation of design methodologies. In ...
Performance measurement in global product development
Taylor, Thomas Paul; Kristensen, Saeema Ahmed // 2013
An organisation looking to form collaborations across borders is a consequence of an increasingly competitive world market. Recent studies highlighted key challenges and success factors ...
Potentials for realising a consistent transition between functional modelling with the IFM framework and early system simulation
Eisenbart, Boris; Dohr, Fabio; Gericke, Kilian; Vielhaber, Michael; Blessing, Lucienne // 2013
Conceptual design is considered one of the most demanding design tasks requiring a joint effort of the involved designers, particularly in interdisciplinary design. Sound decision-making across ...
Predicting the behavior of solution alternatives within product improvement processes
Abramovici, Michael; Lindner, Andreas; Dienst, Susanne; Fathi, Madjid // 2013
Nowadays an increasing number of industrial products are equipped with sensors, allowing a complete monitoring of the product and its working conditions during the use phase. The data generated by ...
Process-integrated analysis of the development situation for an efficient simulation planning
Reitmeier, Jochen; Paetzold, Kristin // 2013
To save costly and time-consuming physical prototype testing, product functionality is increasingly validated by means of simulations. However, the specificity of product properties is generally ...
Reasoning before testing the hypothesis: How to preserve the reality of the industrial context
Zitkus, Emilene; Langdon, Patrick; Clarkson, P John // 2013
The paper discusses the challenges encountered defining suitable methods to test the hypothesis for research investigating inclusive design in the industry. It outlines the outcomes of an exploratory ...
Save a napkin, save a tree: The role of metaphors in product design to change behavior
Montazeri, Soodeh; Finkbiner, David; Papalambros, Panos; Gonzalez, Richard // 2013
In this paper we study the role of metaphorical design concepts in triggering a mindful consumption behavior. Through a retrospective study on persuasive metaphorical designs for behavior change, we ...
Similarity-based concept development for modular platform systems
Anggraeni, Nadia; Maltzahn, Sebastian; Anderl, Reiner // 2013
Today’s companies are facing the challenge of managing high product variety due to increasing customer demands. This challenge results in a change of product development processes. Platforms and ...
Students practising realistic design process by collaboration of different disciplines
Huggins, Bernard James; Linda, Sara; Rane, Sham; Walle, Adam; Dougan, Chris // 2013
A pilot project was arranged between Product Design (PD) students at Glasgow Caledonian University and Engineering Design (ED) students at City University London. The assignment was to produce ...
Supply chain eco-information sharing in the product development process through computer aided design software
Mombeshora, Idai Mendy; Dekoninck, Elies // 2013
As decisions made during the design of a product have a significant impact on environmental performance, it is imperative that environmental considerations become an integral part of the design ...
Supporting the modification process of products through a change management tool
Malatesta, Marco; Raffaeli, Roberto; Mengoni, Maura; Germani, Michele // 2013
Updating products requires design activities, virtual and physical prototyping of new solutions, test and validation steps. If problems are detected at any of these stages, they cause iterations, ...
System architecture change decisions in multi-variant product portfolios
Kissel, Maximilian; Lindemann, Udo // 2013
Decisions in complex design environments like in system architecture design can have wide-ranging effects on the operations of a company. The contribution of this paper to the body of research is to ...
The influence of technical expertise on managerial activities throughout the innovation process
Rekonen, Satu M.; Björklund, Tua A.; Liikkanen, Lassi A. // 2013
This paper investigates the management activities of the project managers of six new product development projects based on a longitudinal, interview-based study. The study compared how the managerial ...
The use of systematic and heuristic methods in the basic design cycle: a comparative survey of studentsâ method usage
Person, Oscar; Daalhuizen, Jaap; Gattol, Valentin // 2013
In the present paper, we study the reported use of systematic and heuristic methods for 304 students enrolled in a master-level course on design theory and methodology. What to teach design and ...
Tolerance Optimization of a Mobile Phone Considering Consumer Demand for Quality and Sustainability in China, Sweden, and the United States
Hoffenson, Steven; Dagman, Andreas; Söderberg, Rikard // 2013
Dimensional tolerances are chosen during the product development process to balance quality requirements against manufacturing costs. Designers typically judge how much variance should be allowed ...
Towards documentation support for educational design thinking projects
Beyhl, Thomas; Berg, Gregor; Giese, Holger // 2013
The design thinking methodology is an incubator for innovative products and services. Design thinking is based on in-depth interactions with prospective end-users and therefore usually results in ...
Towards structured integration of maintenance knowledge in industrial equipment design
Mulder, Wienik; Basten, Rob J. I.; Jauregui Becker, Juan M.; Van Dongen, Leo A. M. // 2013
Industrial equipment requires maintenance to remain operational. The level of maintenance that is required, and how easily it can be executed, is affected by the characteristics of the equipment. ...
Tutorial sustainable innovations - An innovative role-play concept for education
Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Hanusch, Dirk // 2013
Developing sustainable products is no easy task. For designers, this means that not only technical requirements for functional performance but also ecological, economic and social requirements have ...
Understanding task structure in DSM: Mining dependency using process event logs
Lan, Lijun; Liu, Ying; Loh, Han Tong // 2013
Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) has been widely used to analyze and present the inter-structure of design projects which are often characterized by many interrelated tasks. One essential role of ...
Visualizing early product decisions and sticking to themâ¦or not
Korsgaard Hejlesen, Aske; Tollestrup, Christian // 2013
An important skill in the professional life of an industrial design is to be able to create products and thereby making product / development decisions within a given set of limitations. These ...
Zoocentric Design: Pigs, Products, Prototypes and Performances
Baxter, Seaton; Bruce, Fraser // 2013
This paper is concerned with how we apply design to our association with other non-human animals. It exemplifies this with the domestication and current use of the pig (Sus domesticus). After a brief ...
A Conceptual Approach to improve configuration of a prolonged manned mission spacecraft based on DSM
Malaek, S.M.B.; Zohrevandi, E. // 2012
To increase crew efficiency during a long duration space mission, we have developed a Sequence Dependent Structured Matrix (SDSM) which enables designers to quickly derive the shortest paths ...
A GAUSSIAN MODEL OF EXPERT OPINIONS FOR SUPPORTING DESIGN DECISIONS
Rajabalinejad ,M.; Spitas, C. // 2012
The focus of this paper is on development of a novel method for decision making process. Decisions play a major role at all stages of the design process. Here we propose to use a new decision making ...
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.