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Competences for the development of smart products
Herzog, Michael; Bender, Beate // 2017
Within the concept of Industry 4.0 the expansion of mechatronic products towards smart products is key. Whereas the discussion about smart products in the context of production is more prominent, the ...
Complexity theory as an epistemological approach to sustainability assessment methods definition
Nigra, Marianna // 2017
It is since the last thirty years that the world community has formally recognized the necessity of approaching the changes occurring to the social environmental and economic structure of society. ...
Concept for a simulation model to analyze knowledge conversions within the product development process
Laukemann, Alexander; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2017
Business Process Management (BPM) has been established in industrial environments for decades. In the course of progressive information technology support, the research of BPM benefits from the ...
Concept for investigating the application of methods in product development
Gust, Peter; Kuhlmeier, Marco; Garbe, Marie; Kampa, Sebastian // 2017
The use of methods is a success factor in modern product development and is of decisive importance for the overall economic success of a company. The positive effects of using a method have been ...
Connecting strategy and execution in global R&D
Sbernini, Federico; Granini, Nicola; Hansen, Zaza Nadja Lee // 2017
The paper investigates the relationship between global product development strategic decisions, which include outsourcing, offshoring practices as well as strategic alliances, and their impact on the ...
Context-specific process design: An integrated process lifecycle model and situations for context factor use
Hollauer, Christoph; Wilberg, Julian; Omer, Mayada; Lindemann, Udo // 2017
The development of complex systems such as e.g. Product-Service Systems relies on complex processes. Corresponding design contexts are often complex and evolving over time, with factors such as e.g. ...
Coping with the challenges of engineering smart product service systems - Demands for research infrastructure
Kuhlenkötter, Bernd; Bender, Beate; Wilkens, Uta; Abramovici, Michael; Göbel, Jens Christian; Herzog, Michael; Hypki, Alfred; Lenkenhoff, Kay // 2017
Driven by innovations of information and communication technologies as well as increasingly demanding customer expectations on individualized products and services Smart Product Service Systems ...
Correlation between team composition and team performance in virtual student product development teams
Vukasinovic, Nikola; Cok, Vanja; Zavbi, Roman // 2017
This paper is presenting an experiment which was performed to investigate the correlation between team composition and team performance in specific case of virtual student teams working on industrial ...
Cost based design of modular product families using the example of test rigs
Hanna, Michael; Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter // 2017
Companies with a wide range of variety on the markets have to reduce their internal variety for reducing their costs. This can be reached through modular product families, where more than one concept ...
Creativity as a way to innovate successfully
Guenther, Agnes; Eisenbart, Boris; Dong, Andy // 2017
Selecting innovative design concepts for further development entails decision making under conditions of sometimes extreme uncertainty pertaining to technical feasibility and market potential. In ...
CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN’S DESIGN PROCESSES: IDENTIFYING INDICATORS OF DESIGN FIXATION
Schut, Alice; van Doorn, Fenne; Klapwijk, Remke; Buchner, Debbie // 2017
This paper explores indicators of design fixation by following the development of the design ideas of a group of primary school children (age 10-12) carrying out a co-design project. Our goal is to ...
CRITICAL DESIGN – A NEW PARADIGM FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING UNIVERSAL DESIGN
Torkildsby, Anne Britt // 2017
The critical design method, originally developed as a useful tool for designers, architects, engineers, etc., to help open the (design) brief when designing future institutional environments – thus ...
CRITICAL REVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Hjelseth, Eilif // 2017
Sustainability is a widely used term in titles and descriptions of courses in higher education within design and product development. There is a general agreement in the society about the importance ...
CROSSING CULTURES: CREATING A PHD-PROGRAMME IN ENGINEERING, ART & DESIGN
Tronstad, Ragnhild // 2017
In this paper, challenges and potential rewards of multi-disciplinary cooperation in engineering and design education are discussed with reference to the specific case of developing a joint PhD ...
CROWD ENGINEERING - BRINGING FULL CLOUD CAD INTO THE LAB
Eiden, Andreas; Apostolov, Hristo // 2017
Engineering and design of products is changing rapidly. Products become more complex and interconnected, engineers need to work in interdisciplinary, globally distributed, multinational teams. Many ...
CULTIVATING A UNIVERSAL DESIGN MINDSET IN YOUNG STUDENTS
Tatara, Naoe; Giannoumis, George Anthony // 2017
Universal Design (UD) is an approach to promoting an inclusive society with equity as a central focus. With trends in globalization and population aging, it is critical to cultivate a UD-oriented ...
CULTURE SENSITIVE CONTEXTMAPPING: DISCOVERING THE STRENGTHS OF EASTERN AND WESTERN PARTICIPANTS
Hao, Chen; van Boeijen, Annemiek; Stappers, Pieter Jan // 2017
Contextmapping - a set of generative design techniques, used by designers to understand the context of their intended users - has been used successfully over a decade with Western participants, both ...
CULTURE SENSITIVE DESIGN EDUCATION – THE BEST OF ALL WORLDS
van Boeijen, Annemiek; Sonneveld, Marieke; Hao, Chen // 2017
In architecture, the main pedagogical challenge lies in the gap between what is and what should be taught in design studios. What is appropriate material for inspiring fledgling architects to move ...
Current state of practices in open source product development
Bonvoisin, Jérémy (1); Thomas, Laetitia (2); Mies, Robert (1); Gros, Céline (2); Stark, Rainer (1); Samuel, Karine (2); Jochem, Roland (1); Boujut, Jean-François (2) // 2017
Open source innovation is a well-studied phenomenon of the ICT sector, but its evolution towards the field of tangible hardware product development is a newer phenomenon which remains mostly ...
Cyber-physical effects on the virtual commissioning architecture
Illmer, Benjamin; Kaspar, Jerome; Vielhaber, Michael // 2017
In order to satisfy the growing customization desire and, thus, effecting an increasing product variability, future manufacturing systems have to be harmonized with new technologies such as ...
Data-driven engineering design research: Opportunities using open data
Parraguez, Pedro; Maier, Anja // 2017
Engineering Design research relies on quantitative and qualitative data to describe design-related phenomena and prescribe improvements for design practice. Given data availability, privacy ...
Decentralized handling of conflicts in multi-brand engineering change management
Hesselmann, Carsten; Kehl, Stefan; Stiefel, Patrick; Müller, Jörg // 2017
Changes on components that are commonly used in different products in multi-brand product development, cause various types of conflicts. This paper considers conflicts of interest among individuals ...
Decision design and re-ordering preferences: The case of an exploration project in a large firm
Le Glatin, Mario; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoît // 2017
Decision theory has been long applied to project management for risk and uncertainty reduction. Among the foundations, the manager is considered following axioms describing his rationality; the most ...
DECISION MAKING IN PRODUCT DESIGN – BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN INCEPTION AND REALITY
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard; Wynn, Les // 2017
Product Design in the modern world is a complex multifaceted discipline comprising of many skills and applications. It also operates in cross-disciplinary contexts both in direct teams but also ...
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.