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Information Technology in Engineering Education
Sindermann, Sebastian; Eigner, Martin // 2012
Engineering education at university level is a complex topic which includes all three components of mechatronics: mechanics, information technology and electronics. The change towards mechatronic ...
Investigating the importance of sustainability information in Product Development and Design
Aschehoug, Silje Helene; Ringen, Geir; Boks, Casper; Aasland, Knut Einar // 2012
To further improve the sustainability performance of products, a sustainability information framework beyond mere product and process data has been developed. This was done under the assumption that ...
IS THERE A NEED FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN SUSTAINABLE R&D PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT?
Decouttere, C. J.; Vandaele ,N. J. // 2012
Seminated from an industry need in Flanders of how to introduce sustainability in the R&D portfolio decision process, we observed that particular decision support issues came back time after time. A ...
Knowledge-based geometric modeling in construction
Bonev, Martin; Hvam, Lars // 2012
A wider application of IT-based solutions, such as configuration systems and the implementation of modeling standards, has facilitated the trend to produce mass customized products to support inter ...
Modelling and using product architectures in mechatronic product development
Bruun, Hans Peter Lomholt; Mortensen, Niels Henrik // 2012
The objective for the paper is to determine the role of a product architecture modelling tool to support communication and to form the basis for developing and maintaining product structures for ...
MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS OF CONCEPTS – AN APPROACHE FOR A BETTER COMMUNICATION IN THE PROCESS OF REQUIRMENT ACQUISITION
Röder, B.; Dietrich, C.; Birkhofer, H.; Bohn, A. // 2012
Requirement acquisition is one of the most important, but also the most difficult processes in the entire product development. Many errors in the process of requirement acquisition do not arise out ...
MULTIMODAL INTERACTION, COLLABORATION, AND SYNTHESIS IN DESIGN AND ENGINEERING PROCESSING
Wendrich ,R. E. // 2012
The introduction of CAD in design and education created simultaneously a user-experience void along with a user-interaction gap. Consequently this often leads to frustration, time loss, problem ...
Nature-inspired Process Model for Concept Selection and Evaluation in Engineering Design
Parvan, Manuela Iulia; Miedl, Florian; Lindemann, Udo // 2012
A main challenge in engineering represents the evaluation and selection of concepts in the early phase of product development. This decision making process is highly complex due to the various ...
OPTIMIZING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR ADAPTABILITY
Engel ,A.; Reich, Y.; Browning, T. R.; Schmidt, D. M. // 2012
System architecture decisions such as the assignment of components to modules can have a large impact on the system's adaptability. We broaden systems architecting theory by considering ...
Product Development, Public and Private Funding Routes to Market
Whittet, Craig // 2012
The Product Design Engineering (PDE) department at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow has witnessed a substantial growth in graduate business start-ups during the last ten years. ...
PRODUCT ORIENTED ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE TOWARD FOSTERING CAPABILITIES IN PRODUCT DESIGN
Oizumi ,K.; Aoyama ,K. // 2012
To survive in the competitive global market, companies designing products need to strengthen their organizations. This paper proposes a decision support tool for co-ordination of organizational ...
Product Value Metrics and Value-Characteristic Modeling
Withanage, Chathura; Park, Taezoon; Duc, Truong Ton Hien; Choi, Haejin // 2012
The mainstream product value-attribute models can be categorized in to two types, according to exclusion or inclusion of product price in the product attribute/characteristic vector. The ...
School Culture Through Praxis
Vielhaber, Michael; Dohr, Fabio; Luedeke, Tobias // 2012
From the beginnings of design methodology, the way how to teach and to learn engineering design has been controversially discussed. “School culture” and “shop culture” are terms representing this ...
The Design Decision Trail: A Student Design Project Narrative, Tutorial Tool and Route to Employability
Attenburrow, Derek Howard // 2012
This paper describes the invention, development and subsequent inclusion of a design decision trail in undergraduate and postgraduate design courses at the University of Northampton. The design ...
The Language of Abduction in Choosing Innovation
Dong, A.; Mounarath, R.; Lovallo, D. // 2012
The selection of an innovation project to take forward for product development, is a complex, strategic, managerial decision which shares one key part with concept ideation and evaluation in design: ...
THE USE OF DESIGN VISUALISATION METHODS TO SUPPORT DECISION MAKING
Yee ,J.; Walker, A.; Menzfield, L. // 2012
This paper examines and describes how design visualisation methods support decision making processes in two strategic projects currently running in an engineering SME company. We first describe the ...
TOWARDS AN EARLY CONSIDERATION OF RAMP-UP PHASE IN THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX PRODUCTS
Elstner, S.; Krause, D. // 2012
The shorter product life cycles and the increasing market competition forces the companies to accelerate the introduction of new products into the market. The ability to realize an efficient transfer ...
Towards Life-Oriented Evaluation Support of Interface Concepts
Farrugia, Lawrence; Borg, Jonathan C. // 2012
The evaluation of design concepts is a critical early design stage with potential ramifications on subsequent lifecycle phases. During this stage the engineering designer is typically required to ...
USING FEEDBACK FROM END USERS TO IMPROVE DESIGN OF PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS
Lawlor-Wright, T.; Rainey, M.; Al Ghazal, H.; Ferrario, M.; Simm ,W.; Whittle, J. // 2012
The importance of recognizing user needs and incorporating them in the design of products is widely recognized. This is also true for buildings and services. The views of end-users can be helpful in ...
A Case Study of Open-Ended Creative Practice Based Research
Nagai,Yukari; Georgiev , V.Georgi; Gwilt, Ian // 2011
This paper concerns the nature of creativity in the case of open-ended design process. In contrary to the goal-oriented design, the open-ended design process involves formation of design image and ...
A COMPARISON OF THE INTEGRATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES
Bassler, Denis; Oehmen, Josef; Seering, Warren; Bendaya, Mohamed // 2011
The management and reduction of risk is a central part of product development processes. This paper analyses the extent to which four common product development approaches address risks (waterfall ...
A DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT OF RIM PARTS
Torcato, Ricardo; Santos, Ricardo; Dias, Madalena; Roth, Richard; Olivetti, Elsa; Lopes, José Carlos // 2011
The aim of this paper is to present a research project currently underway which seeks to identify and organize the knowledge required in the development process of Reaction Injection Moulding parts ...
A META MODEL OF THE INNOVATION PROCESS TO SUPPORT THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS USING STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY MANAGEMENT
Kortler, Sebastian; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
The innovation process is characterized by numerous interactions of numerous domains. Cyclic interdependencies intensify the pressure in terms of quality and schedule, causing shortened testing ...
A METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE THE STRUCTURAL ROBUSTNESS OF PRODUCT CONCEPTS
Kissel, Maximilian; Hellenbrand, David; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
The success of a company is sustainably dependent on the robustness of their products. Product concept should be designed adaptable for initiated changes but resistant against unforeseen changes. But ...
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.