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THE APPLICABILITY AND COHERENCE OF KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS IN GLOBAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Taylor ,T.P.; Ahmed-Kristensen, S. // 2014
The potential risks and opportunities as a result of the decision to globalise product development requires the use of key performance indicators to measure and monitor the process, providing ...
The Capability Approach: Theoretical Discussion in Light of a Design Project
Grande, Julie; Fladvad Nielsen, Brita // 2014
Technological solutions can play a vital part in promoting development. This article will discuss the potential of using the capability approach in the practical design work, based on field study of ...
The Challenges of Developing Styling DNA Design Methodologies for Car Design
Shahriman, Zainal Abidin; Azlan, Othman; Zafruddin, Shamsuddin; Zaidy, Samsudin; Halim, Hassan // 2014
This paper discusses the challenges of developing ‘Styling DNA’ for car design. Existing theories, models and frameworks towards styling DNA are still fuzzy. Many car industries are still struggling ...
The Collaborative DSM: a new way to handle complex collaborative planning and scheduling processes (Members only )
Baudin, M.; Bonnal, P.; Ruiz, J.- P. // 2014
Planning and scheduling projects, but also maintenance activities in large scientific facilities result in complex dependencies between tasks. Handling such dependencies becomes a non-trivial problem ...
The Conceptual Design Phase of Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2) - Learning from an Industrial Use-Case
Meuris, Daniel; Herzog, Michael; Bender, Beate; Sadek, Tim // 2014
The promises offered by industrial product-service systems for lasting customer retention and long-term revenue streams are well known. Scientific research in this field is vital and new approaches ...
The Difference in Communication Between Architects and Engineers and the Effectiveness within Integral Design
Zeiler, Wim // 2014
Traditionally the conceptual building design phase is dominated by the architect. However, due to the clear need for more sustainable solutions, building design is being transformed to a ...
THE DILEMMA OF MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS IN PRODUCT CONCEPT SYNTHESIS – NEW APPROACHES FOR INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA
Heller ,J.E.; Schmid, A. L // 2014
Morphological analyses are used for researching and subsequently combining various individual solutions to one overall solution in the course of product development. Its application is often ...
The Educational Design Ladder: Creation of a Multi-Discipline Design Thinking Program
Straker, Karla; Wrigley, Cara // 2014
As global industries change and technology advances, traditional education systems may no longer be able to supply companies with graduates possessing an appropriate mix of skills and experience. The ...
The Explainer: A Software Aid to Solve Complex Problems (Members only )
Steward, D. V. // 2014
This paper concerns using cause-and-effects to explain what causes behaviors. By explaining what would cause a requirement specification, the causes can be used as a design. The Explainer can also be ...
The Future of Engineering Design Education – An Australasian Perspective and Solution
Littlefair, Guy // 2014
This paper describes a unique initiative towards addressing the engineering skills shortage presently being experienced in Australia that has significance in the global engineering education ...
The Impact of Activities during Fuzzy Front End on NPD Project Success: A Comparative Study between Korean and Japanese Manufacturers
Mammetseyidov , Ruslan; Nagahira , Akio // 2014
This study shows that the impact of fuzzy front end (FFE) phase during innovation process on new product development (NPD) project success in two East Asian countries, Korea and Japan, was explored ...
THE INFLUENCE OF ALTERNATIVE RECYCLING PROCESSES ON EMPLOYEE NUMBERS
Coric, M.; Lommatzsch, N.; Kloberdanz ,H.; Birkhofer ,H. // 2014
The designer of sustainable products has to require economic, ecological and social goals. Based on a mass-flow specific model, the influence of alternative recycling processes for metal offcuts as ...
THE INFLUENCE OF CREATIVE SELF-EFFICACY ON CREATIVE PERFORMANCE
Brockhus, S.; van der Kolk ,T.E.C.; Koeman, B.; Badke-Schaub ,P.G. // 2014
Creativity can be expressed within different forms of representations such as writing, painting or reasoning. This paper argues the influence of creative self-efficacy on creative performance, which ...
The integration of DSM and Axiomatic Design in product design as part of a MDM process (Members only )
Rizzuti, S.; De Napoli, L. // 2014
Mapping among several domains allows different aspects of the design process to be put in relation. Considering that the DSM data structure is able to capture much information of a single part of the ...
THE METHOD OF PHOTO-ELICITATION FROM A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Schaeffer ,J.; Carlsson ,A.-L. // 2014
This article intend to discuss the of use photo-based interview methods in design research, more specifically if and how the Photo Elicitated Interview is useful in getting information from ...
The Mindcard Concept: Increasing Interaction in Small Group Learning Settings
Mussgnug, Moritz; Bo, Stefan // 2014
Learning and teaching in small groups of students with less than ten participants is a common setting in engineering design education at ETH Zurich. It can vary from class teaching and coaching ...
The Missing Link: Co-Creation Through Design Engineering Projects
Nigel, Garland; Zulfiqar, Khan // 2014
The Design Project units are the cornerstone of academic and professional development within the undergraduate Design Engineering programme at Bournemouth University. They provide technical, ...
The Need for and Lessons from a Web-Based Tool for Design for Human Variability
Haupt, D. Reuben; Garneau, Christopher J.; Parkinson, Matthew B. // 2014
Design for Human Variability (DfHV) is a DfX activity that supports the design of artifacts, tasks, and environments that are robust to the variabilty in their users. This requires an understanding ...
The new global factory: A systems perspective for addressing the complexity of localization in emerging markets (Members only )
Wehner, P.; Sillitto, H.; Harris, S. // 2014
cturers that are expanding into emerging markets to access both markets and production resources there. By examining one specific western manufacturer that is making this journey in some detail, it ...
The Potential of Design to Foster Academic Entrepreneurship: An Ethnographic Study of metaLAB at Harvard
Simeone, Luca // 2014
This paper builds upon the notion of academic entrepreneurship as a way to engage with external communities to create value (Kingma 2011) and more specifically analyses how design is used to foster ...
THE REFLECTIVE DESIGNER: A DISCUSSION ON ETHICS BASED ON END-USER INVOLVEMENT IN KEBRI BEYAH REFUGEE CAMP
Nielsen, B.F. // 2014
Involving end-users in the design process is rare, and end-user access in humanitarian relief settings is often hindered partly due to ethical considerations. Contextual challenges unpredictably ...
The Research Paper as an Object of Communication in Industrial Design Educations
Dahl Thomsen, Bente; Botin, Lars // 2014
The writing of research papers gives students at industrial design education’s the opportunity to gain experience with design research and papers as an object of communication. Design research is an ...
The Role of Learning- and Presentation- Portfolios in Design Educations
Thomsen, Bente Dahl; Ovesen, Nis // 2014
Students that primarily study design through team-based projects often struggle to develop presentation portfolios that differentiate from the ones of other students. In the industry, design managers ...
THE ROLE OF RELIABLE INFORMATION AND PACKAGING ON SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION IN CHILE, A DEVELOPING COUNTRY
Cereceda ,G.; Betancourt Velasco ,M.C. // 2014
A field study to identify the role of environmental certification and design factors that influence sustainable purchasing of Chilean consumers decisions, was made. A mixed quantitative and ...
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.