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A CASE STUDY APPROACH TO INTRODUCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN EDUCATION
Esparragoza, Ivan (1); Mesa-Cogollo, Jaime (2) // 2019
Finding sustainable solutions to worldwide problems has become a critical challenge for engineers. The use of natural resources and the generation of materials no degradable should be controlled when ...
A Comparison Of Contemporary Prototyping Methods
Coutts, Euan Ross (1,2); Wodehouse, Andrew (2); Robertson, Jason (2) // 2019
Prototypes are a common feature of many product design and development endeavours. An ever widening range of prototyping options are available to designers and engineers. May particular options be ...
A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ‘CREATIVITY’ IN SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION AND DESIGN
Empson, Thomas (1); Chance, Professor Shannon (2); Patel, Professor Shushma (1) // 2019
This paper provides a system level perspective of the contextual pressures facing designers, engineers and businesses today. In it, we challenge negative creative norms and we champion positive ...
A DESIGN INNOVATION FRAMEWORK RESEARCH IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL REGENERATION
WU, DUAN (1); MA, YUHONG (1); WANG, JIPING (3); XU, JIE (2) // 2019
Social regeneration is an intricate field that calls for interdisciplinary knowledge to fulfill the ever-changing trends and an arbitrary sequence of demands. Ostensibly, involved in “reshaping” the ...
A lifecycle cost-driven system dynamics approach for considering additive re-manufacturing or repair in aero-engine component design
Lawand, Lydia (1); Al Handawi, Khalil (1); Panarotto, Massimo (2); Andersson, Petter (3); Isaksson, Ola (2); Kokkolaras, Michael (1,2) // 2019
Aero-engine component design decisions should consider re-manufacturing and/or repair strategies and their impact on lifecycle cost. Existing design approaches do not account for alternative ...
A Network-based Contract Management Framework for Prioritizing Contractual Performance Progress Axis
Cesar, Franck (1); Marle, Franck (2) // 2019
Contracts play a major role in today’s projects and operations. Contractual performance is defined as the result of the contract and the process and organization that support the contract lifecycle. ...
A pragmatic approach towards leveraging employee competences by use of semantic web technologies
Ocker, Felix; Vogel-Heuser, Birgit // 2019
Global competition in combination with the increasing specialization of labor requires organizations to leverage their employees' competences. The approach presented in this paper empowers ...
A survey of design reviews: Understanding differences by designer-roles and phase of development
Chen, James; Zucco, Gustavo; Olechowski, Alison // 2019
In this paper, we present the results of a survey of new product development practitioners regarding their design review experiences. We surveyed 128 product development professionals on their ...
A survey on the applications of machine learning in the early phases of product development
Shabestari, Seyed Sina; Herzog, Michael; Bender, Beate // 2019
Machine learning has shown its potential to support the knowledge extraction within the development processes and particularly in the early phases where critical decisions have to be made. However, ...
A Systematic Approach to Model Objectives in Predevelopment Projects
Richter, Thilo Oliver; Albers, Albert; Gesk, Johannes Willi; Witt, Jan-Hendrik // 2019
This contribution presents a systematic for the elicitation of objectives and the utilization of objectives to identify reference products. The systematic is based on existing meta models. The model ...
Abductive inferences in strategic design decisions
Kroll, Ehud (1); Koskela, Lauri (2) // 2019
The overall strategy of designing is addressed. The design decisions that have a major impact on the direction in which the process evolves are termed ?strategic?, and here we study them from the ...
Alarm Compliance In Healthcare: Design Considerations For Actionable Alarms (In Intensive Care Units)
Sanz-Segura, Rosana (1); Manchado P // 2019
Intensive care units are technologically advanced environments that are designed to safeguard the patient while their vitals are stabilized for further treatment. Audible and visual alarms are part ...
An affordance-based online review analysis framework
Hou, Tianjun (1); Yannou, Bernard (1); Leroy, Yann (1); Poirson, Emilie (2) // 2019
One of the main tasks of today's data-driven design is to learn customers' concerns from the feedback data posted on the internet, to drive smarter and more profitable decisions during product ...
An Approach for choosing the cost effective design for a product-service system while maintaining its desired reliability
Schneider, Jannik Alexander; Mozgova, Iryna; Lachmayer, Roland // 2019
With the spread of product-service systems as business models the life cycle costs are of increasing importance as a measurement of product cost. A key factor that drives these costs is the desired ...
Analysis and evaluation in the early stages of designing resource efficient offerings: A comparison among large companies and small and medium enterprises
Brambila-Macias, Sergio Andres; Sakao, Tomohiko // 2019
In Europe there is a common vision to transform the economy into a sustainable one by 2050 which among other changes, calls for companies to address their offerings in a more resource-efficient ...
Automated Candidate Detection for Additive Manufacturing: A Framework Proposal
Page, Thomas Daniel; Yang, Sheng; Zhao, Yaoyao Fiona // 2019
As additive manufacturing (AM) continues to grow in its abilities, so does the need for a quick and effective method of determining how it should be applied. Over time, these methods are naturally ...
Business model innovation for circular economy: integrating literature and practice into a conceptual process model
Pieroni, Marina de Padua; McAloone, Tim; Pigosso, Daniela // 2019
A key question regarding business model innovation/development for circular economy is ?how to make it happen in practice"? By systematically reviewing 92 approaches from circular economy and ...
Computational Simulation as an organizational prototyping tool
Dosi, Clio; Iori, Manuel; Kramer, Arthur; Vignoli, Matteo // 2019
This case study deals with a redesign effort to face the overcrowding issue in an Emergency Department (ED). A multidiscinary group of healthcare professionals and engineers worked together to ...
Creation of a framework of design tool characteristics to support evaluation and selection of visualisation tools
Zhang, Wenwen; Ranscombe, Charlie; Radcliffe, David; Jackson, Simon // 2019
In Industrial Design, new design visualisation tools are emerging offering significant benefits to the designers. However, studies show alongside some benefits, new tools can also inhibit designers' ...
Data Driven Product Portfolio Analysis of Electric Motors Based on Product Platforms Using Knowledge-Based Systems
T // 2019
For a company it is necessary to know, which products can be configured using carry-over-parts or the same technology. This can become quite relevant in the context of automobile electrification, ...
Decision Support for Re-designed Medicinal Products - Assessing consequences of a customizable product design on the value chain from a sustainability perspective
Siiskonen, Maria (1); Watz, Matilda (2); Malmqvist, Johan (1); Folestad, Staffan (3) // 2019
Despite advances in pharmacological research providing means for individually customized patient attribute treatments, the 'one-size-fits-all' paradigm remains. Customization is associated with cost ...
DELIVERING A TOTAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Whitfield, Robert Ian; Duffy, Alex; Grierson, Hilary // 2019
The department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management (DMEM) at the University of Strathclyde developed the concept of “Delivering Total Engineering” to capture the essence of the teaching, ...
Derivation of criteria for identifying lightweight potential ? a literature review
Laufer, Felix; Roth, Daniel; Binz, Hansgeorg // 2019
Lightweight potential is a powerful indicator ? but not as powerful as it could be. Current methods for analyzing a product's potential to be reduced in mass only deal with a few of the most ...
Design considerations for therapeutic devices - An investigation of pre-schoolers? preferences for an artefact's basic characteristics
Balzan, Emanuel (1); Farrugia, Philip (1); Casha, Owen (1); Camilleri, Liberato (1); Wodehouse, Andrew (2) // 2019
Toys are children's first consumer products and while playing they acquire numerous skills, learn about their environment and socialise with other children and adults. Toys are adapted and used by ...
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.