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IDENTIFYING FLEXIBLE DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES: GETTING FROM A PROCEDURAL TO AN EXECUTION MODEL
Allaverdi, David; Herberg, Arne; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
An offshore drilling rig faces continuous need for upgrades especially due to significant uncertainty in all phases of the lifecycle. As in other application fields, rigid design usually prevails, ...
IDENTIFYING NEEDS FOR NEW ECODESIGN TOOLS WITH THE DSM VALUE BUCKET TOOL - AN EXAMPLE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Lamé, Guillaume; Leroy, Yann; Lasvaux, Sébastien // 2015
Although a large number of ecodesign tools is available to designers, adoption of these tools still seems limited. This is in part due to an inadequacy between ecodesign tools and designer's ...
IDENTIFYING THE FACTORS TO INFLUENCE PRODUCT ATTACHMENT THROUGH PRODUCT FANDOM PHENOMENON
Bae, Jieun; Kim, Chajoong // 2015
Users become attached to particular products or services since they convey a personal meaning. According to literature study, four factors play a role in product attachment. However, it has not been ...
IMPACT OF ARCHITECTURE TYPES AND DEGREE OF MODULARITY ON CHANGE PROPAGATION INDICES
Colombo, Edoardo Filippo; Cascini, Gaetano; de Weck, Olivier L. // 2015
Change propagation has been investigated in many case studies; anyway, the effect of architectural choices like the degree of modularity or the presence of bus elements is still unclear. This paper ...
IMPLEMENTATION OF R&D MANAGEMENT MODELS IN GLOBAL ORGANISATIONS
Johansson, Glenn; Saefsten, Kristina; Adolfsson, Ann-Cathrine // 2015
This paper addresses implementation of R&D management models in global product development organisations. The study rests upon empirical material originating from five industrial companies that was ...
IMPLEMENTING ECODESIGN PRINCIPLES IN PRODUCT DESIGN: THE ROLE OF USABILITY
Sousa, Ana M.; Sampaio, Alvaro M.; Simoes, Paulo; Oliveira, Raquel // 2015
The market growing saturation with products similar to the already existent ones or whose adaptation to a user revealed inefficiency, makes relevant the elaboration of projects that effectively bring ...
Implizites Wissen und Sinneswahrnehmungen als Potentiale des „Faktor Mensch“ (Members only )
Bader, M.; Lang, H. // 2015
Beside the common form of knowledge as explicit representable information
(“knowing that”), theory or model implicit knowledge (“knowing how”)
and human senses (“knowing how it is”) are an ...
IMPROVING DESIGN METHODOLOGY: SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF PRINCIPLE SYNTHESIS
Katzwinkel, Tim; Heller, Jan Erik; Schmid, Alexander; Schmidt, Walter; Löwer, Manuel; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2015
Developing new products based on a systematic approach is essential for the entrepreneurial success of technology companies. Through functional analysis and successive synthesis of a product ...
IMPROVING GENERATIVE GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION THROUGH NETWORK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Königseder, Corinna; Stanković, Tino; Shea, Kristina // 2015
Design grammars have been successfully applied in numerous engineering disciplines, however, the lack of support for grammar development is seen as one of the major drawbacks of grammatical ...
IMPROVING ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESSES WITH MBSE
Westermann, Thorsten; Anacker, Harald; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2015
Highly customized products dominate in the mechanical engineering industry. Products like machine tools, food processing or packaging machines are characterized by a high complexity, a low quantity ...
IMPROVING SKILLS IN PRODUCT DESIGN: EXPLORING SOLUTION SPACE AND THE IMPACT OF APPLIED MENTAL SCALING
Skulberg, Harald // 2015
This paper explores how mental scaling may constitute a creative tool in product design education, in
order to improve design solutions through different methodological approaches. The ...
IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS IN CLIENTS/SUPPLIERS CO-DESIGN PROCESS
Michelin, Fabien; Reyes, Tatiana; Vallet, Flore; Eynard, Benoît; Duong, Viet-Long // 2015
The integration of the environmental criteria in clients/suppliers co-design process becoMES an important issue owing to the growing influence of suppliers design choices on the clients products. ...
IMPROVING WELLBEING FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
Kaldor, Lucy Joanna; Watson, Rodger // 2015
Being the victim of a crime constitutes a profound and lasting trauma for individuals and their communities. Depending on the circumstances of their victimisation, crime victims have little choice ...
INCLUSIVE DESIGN; FROM PHYSICAL TO PSYCHOSOCIAL - A LITERATURE ANALYSIS TOWARD A DEFINITION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DIMENSIONS IN DESIGN
Lim, Yonghun; Dr. Nickpour, Farnaz // 2015
With the dual demographics of an aging population and more people living with disabilities, inclusive design has been recognised as a driving force for accessibility and social equality in design of ...
Incorporation of Carbon Nanotubes Into Magnetorheological Elastomers Material (Members only )
Siti Aishah Abdul Aziz1,a, Ubaidillah1, 2,b , Saiful Amri Mazlan1,c ,Nik I. Nik Ismail3,d, ,Muntaz Hana Ahmad Khairi1,e // 2015
The magnetorheological elastomer (MREs) studied in this paper have been synthesized with incorporation of multiwall carbon nanotube (MWCNTs) into Natural rubber (NR) as matrix and carbonyl iron (CI) ...
INCREASING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESSOF DESIGN SCHOOL SPIN-OUTS
Deloughry, Niall; Wever, Renee // 2015
Universities and Design schools prepare graduates in the principles of product development, through bachelor’s courses in Product/Industrial design and Business. Through the course of a typical ...
INDEX-BASED METRICS FOR THE EVALUATION OF EFFECTS OF CUSTOM PARTS ON THE STANDARDIZATION OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
Sinigalias, Pavlos Christoforos; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2015
The number and the attributes of custom parts affect significantly the standardization level of mechanical systems and determine their functional characteristics and their value. In the present ...
INDICATORS AND DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR DIRECT PART PRODUCTION BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Leutenecker, Bastian; Klahn, Christoph; Meboldt, Mirko // 2015
Additive manufacturing (AM), a layer based material addition technology to create three-dimensional objects directly from a 3D CAD model with little restrictions regarding the shape of the object. ...
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF A MECHATRONIC FRAMEWORK
Torry-Smith, Jonas Mørkeberg; Mortensen, Niels Henrik; Ploug, Ole; Achiche, Sofiane // 2015
Design of mechatronics is greatly challenging due to its multi-disciplinary nature. On one hand companies need to facilitate integration between engineering domains while they on the other hand need ...
Industrial Design, Creativity and Ideation. A Preliminary Study of Product Development Within the Manufacturing Sector of Biobio, Chile
Briede, J.C.; Cabello, M. B.; Perez, C.E. // 2015
Creativity and ideation within industrial design, when applied to productive contexts, can be key for regional businesses looking to achieve product differentiation and competition in the
globalized ...
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN: A PROFESSION BETWEENENGINEERING AND APPLIED ART
Keitsch, Martina Maria; Prestholt, Eivind // 2015
Competences acquired during industrial design education and competences actually required in professional
design practice are sometimes diverging. This article outlines characteristics of the ...
Influence of Analogical Domains and Abstraction Levels on Novelty of Designs
Keshwani, S.; Chakrabarti, A. // 2015
The overall goal of this work is to improve creativity of technical products by supporting novelty of designs. Analogy - an important aspect of creative thinking, is studied for its influence on ...
INFLUENCE OF DESIGN-FOR-X GUIDELINES ON THE MATCHING BETWEEN THE PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE AND SUPPLY NETWORK
Behncke, Florian G. H.; Thimet, Paula; Barton, Benjamin; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
Emerging global markets and fierce competition lead manufacturing firms to a transfer a large share of their value creation in development and production to suppliers that are arranged in a supply ...
INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE FROM BIOLOGY ON THE VARIETY OF TECHNICAL SOLUTION IDEAS
Hashemi Farzaneh, Helena; Helms, Katharina; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
Bio-inspired design aims at the development of novel, creative solutions with the potential for innovative technical products. It implies the use of different information sources, such as research ...
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.