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Designing training plans in creativity techniques for companies
Canina, Marita; Anselmi, Laura; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2013
It is widely recognized that training in creativity techniques enhances the competitiveness and efficiency of companiesâ production processes. As well as contributing to self-fulfilment, ...
Determining module replacement timing of product for balancing quality and production cost
Jeong, Jae Hun; Kim, Daeyoung; Jang, Wooseok; Lee, Jihwan; Hong, Yoo S.; Park, yongtae // 2013
As the world has entered the era of limitless competition, most manufacturing companies are trying to reduce the product cost using a modular design strategy. In this environment, the company ...
Developing business models for extended products in manufacturing service ecosystems
Thoben, Klaus-Dieter; Wiesner, Stefan; Gusmeroli, Sergio; Eschenbaecher, Jens // 2013
The growing demand for integrated solutions forces manufacturers of industrial goods to combine their products with service components to Product-Service Systems, or Extended Products (EP). The new ...
Development of a design process to design for people with dementia and their extended care network - Learning from a case study
Brankaert, Rens; den Ouden, Elke // 2013
In Europe we face an aging society with a growing number of people suffering from dementia. This challenge we face as a society, because current healthcare systems are not ready for such an increase. ...
Development of an engineering change management capability framework for enterprise transformation
Storbjerg, Simon Haahr; Sommer, Anita Friis; Brunø, Thomas Ditlev; Thyssen, Jesper // 2013
With the current financial crisis focus of product development in industry has centred on efficient variant development and increasing the utilisation of existing products and platforms. Together ...
Development of the digital storage Fuon
Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Hesamedin; Schäfer, Thomas; Spielauer, Alexander; Aschinger, Gerold; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel // 2013
This paper ties to Fuon Theory, where functional icons are suggested to phrase standardized functional units. Having functional unit parameters at hand, products that can be described by these ...
Die Auswirkung der Reihenfolge von Mess- und Simulationsdaten auf das Ergebnis der Kreuzvalidierung in KDD Prozessen (Members only )
Christof ,K // 2013
Die eigenschaftsbasierte Produktentwick-lung unter Ber (Members only )
Luft, Thomas; Kamin, Stefan; , J // 2013
Differentiating positive emotions elicited by products; An exploration of perceived differences between 25 positive emotions by users and designers
Ortíz Nicolás, Juan Carlos; Aurisicchio, Marco; Desmet, Pieter M.A. // 2013
This paper reports semi-qualitative research on emotions from the perspective of users and designers. Twenty-five positive emotions were ranked regarding four relevant issues for product design: ...
Disability + relevant design: a portfolio of approaches
Schneider, Sheila M.; McDonagh, Deana; Thomas, Joyce K. // 2013
This paper discusses a multi-methodological approach to integrating the voice and experience of our diverse population (e.g. people with disabilities) into Industrial Design curricula. There is much ...
Discovering contextual tags from product review using semantic relatedness
Lim, Soon Chong Johnson; Liu, Ying // 2013
Nowadays, online product reviews has enabled product designers to better understand product related issues from the users' perspective. In the design community, there are a number of studies that ...
Discursive constructions of design and implications for engineering education
Premer Petersen, Rikke // 2013
Recognition of design discourses at play in professional practice is key when discussing ways to reintroduce designerly ways in engineering education. This paper outlines three design discourses ...
Distribution of mental stresses during conceptual design activities
Nguyen, Thanh An; Xu, Xu; Zeng, Yong // 2013
In this paper, we study how different mental stress levels are distributed in a conceptual design process. Firstly, we reviewed a Stroop Test experiment conducted earlier in our lab to confirm the ...
Do user driven innovation and ecodesign enrich or fight one another, and does sufficient methodologies for combining the two exist?
Herskind, Mathies; Sidelmann, Kristian // 2013
This paper is a theoretical investigation and case study of the presently highly debated and much referenced terms ‘ecodesign’ and ‘user driven innovation’, with the aim of illuminating the ...
Does experience in design and innovation affect the perception of creativity?
Becattini, Niccolò; Borgianni, Yuri; Cascini, Gaetano; Rotini, Federico // 2013
The assessment of creativity arouses increasing interest within design community. The literature witnesses efforts to quantitatively measure creativity, although commonly considered intrinsically ...
Eco-design guidelines and eco-knowledge integration in product development process
Rossi, Marta; Germani, Michele; Mandolini, Marco; Marconi, Marco; Mengoni, Maura; Morbidoni, Alessandro // 2013
The product eco-sustainability is recognized as a key factor for competitive products and recently lots of international directives (guidelines) have been issued. This paper aims to define a new ...
EcoM2 web portal: Collecting empirical data and supporting companies' ecodesign implementation and management
Pigosso, Daniela; McAloone, Tim C.; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2013
Despite the recognition of the potential benefits of ecodesign, a promising approach to integrate environmental concerns into the product development process, its application has failed to reach ...
Effect of expectation on affective quality perception
Yanagisawa, Hideyoshi; Takatsuji, Kenji; Mikami, Natsu // 2013
A user’s experience of a product involves a set of transitions from one sensory state to another. In such state transitions, a disconfirmation between prior expectation and posterior experience ...
Effectiveness of ecodesign methods in assisting SMEs towards market success
Bugali, Munire Hilal; Gulari, Melehat Nil // 2013
This study focuses on how design can help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve sustainability through implementing ecodesign approaches. The literature review on sustainability and ...
Effizientes Variantenmanagement durch modulare Produktkonfiguratoren (Members only )
Gerber, Peter // 2013
Elaboration and assessment of a set of criteria for the evaluation of product ideas
Messerle, Mathias; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2013
It is important for companies to identify the most promising product ideas very early in the product development process in order to use the available resources for the ârightâ projects. ...
Empirical analysis of product design with different times and interruption levels
Djaloeis, Bima Raymond-Sati; Frenz, Martin; Duckwitz, Sönke;Hinsch, Malte Sebastian; Feldhusen, Jörg; Schlick, Christopher Marc // 2013
Effective and robust engineering design processes are vital in early phases of a product life cycle, such as in product design. This highly dynamic field of work is influenced by many interacting, ...
Empirical evaluation of flexible design concept generation procedures: A study in emergency services
Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Ka-Ho Yue, Howard; Jiang, Yixin; Deng, Yinghan; Santhanakrishnan, Deepak // 2013
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of concept generation procedures enabling flexibility in engineering systems design. Evaluation of two educational training procedures (analogies ...
Enabling organizational changes for development of product-service system offers
Wallin, Johanna; Chirumalla, Koteshwar; Isaksson, Ola // 2013
The manufacturing industry is going through a transition from developing of products to the provision of product-service systems (PSS). Earlier research has identified different types of PSS offers, ...
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.