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Approach for Managing Lean Product Design
Germani, Michele; Raffaeli, Roberto; Mengoni, Maura; Graziosi, Serena // 2009
Flexibility is the main keyword in order to face the rapid changing market requirements. Companies need methods and tools in order to implement flexibility over the whole product development process, ...
Approaches to Mitigate the Impact of Uncertainty in Development Processes
Chalupnik, Marek J.; Wynn, David C.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
The inherent complexity of Product Development (PD) processes, coupled with competitive pressures to deliver products cheaper, faster better, has been a significant source of difficulties in planning ...
Architects and Visually Impaired People: Analyzing Two Ways of Talking
Vermeersch, Peter-Willem; Strickfaden, Megan; Herssens, Jasmien; Heylighen, Ann // 2009
While architects think and work in a visual way, people who are visually impaired may pay more attention to other senses and, as a result, are able to appreciate other spatial qualities. Because of ...
Aspects of Nonlinearity in Conceptual Design
Kroll, Ehud; Condoor, Sridhar S. // 2009
Systematic Design methods present a sequential model of conceptual design, whereby function structures are established, solution principles sought, and then combined to form the product concept. We ...
Assembly Simulation for Toleranced Parts: An Adaptes Path Planning Approach
Wittmann, Stefan; Winter, Marco; Paetzold, Kristin // 2009
One crucial task of product development is the definition of tolerances to assure the fulfillment of functional and aesthetic requirements. It is extremely difficult to specify the necessary ...
Assembly-Oriented Product Structure based on Preliminary Assembly Process Engineering
Demoly, Frédéric; Gomes, Samuel; Eynard, Benoît; Rivest, Louis; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2009
Currently, product design is mainly influenced by customer requirements, i.e. designers are more and more focused to have a well-balanced product between function and form. However, other ...
Assessing Design Methods for Functional Representation and Concept Generation: Strategies and Preliminary Results
Tate, Derrick; Agarwal, Aditya; Zhang, Linjing // 2009
To support collaborative conceptual design, methods for functional representation and concept generation are essential. Many methods have been proposed following various design theories, but little ...
Assessing Impact Analysis Practice to Improve Change Management Capability
Kilpinen, M. S. ; Eckert, C. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Impact analysis (IA) methods and tools support designers in determining the consequences of design changes. As such, the risk of unanticipated propagation of changes, in which an initiating ...
Assessing the Structural Crashworthiness of a Three-Wheeler Passenger Vehicle
Srikanth.K. M ; Prakash, V Raghu // 2009
Over the last few decades, three wheelers, popularly termed as auto rickshaws, are gaining popularity in the commuting world due to the driving conditions prevailing all over the world. With the traf ...
Assessment of theses - a comparison of current approaches practiced in engineering education
Watty, Robert; Kreimeyer, Matthias // 2009
To evaluate a student’s work best possible, the assessment of theses written as part of the curriculum has to meet certain standards from both an academic and an industrial perspective to fully ...
Assessment of User Needs for an Electric-Powered Personal Transportation Unit in Urban Environment
Eurich, Markus; Jamali, Nadia; Löf/er, Karin // 2009
This paper presents the results of a usage study of an electric-powered personal transportation unit in urban environment. The study is based on a qualitative and quantitative data analysis, which is ...
Automated Analysis of Product Disassembly to Determine Environmental Impact
Agu, David Ikechukwu; Campbell, Matthew Ira // 2009
Manufacturers are increasingly being held responsible for the fate of their products during the end-of-life phase. In this research, a product's end-of-life environmental impact is calculated as ...
Basic sculpturing methods as innovatory incentives in the development of aesthetic form concepts.
Thomsen, Bente Dahl // 2009
Many project teams grapple for a long time with developing ideas to the form concept because of a lack of methods to solve the many form problems they face in sketching. They also have difficulty in ...
Beyond Cost: Product Complexity and the Global Product Development Location Advantage
Makumbe, Pedzi; Seering, Warren; Rebentisch, Eric // 2009
Discussions of location advantages in global product development are largely based on self-reported surveys, and often agnostic to product characteristics. We build on this previous work by ...
Beyond User-Centered Design
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2009
The material evolution in the universe and the biological evolution in the Earth to given rise to the humanity that now can take in its hands a continuation of the evolution by means of artificial ...
Biomimetics as a Design Methodology - Possibilities and Challenges
Lenau, Torben A. // 2009
Biomimetics ? or bionik as it is called in parts of Europe ? offer a number of promising opportunities and challenges for the designer. The paper investigates how biomimetics as a design methodology ...
Bridging TDM and PDM Solutions Using JT in PLM Architectures
Bitzer,Michael; Eigner,Martin; Gerhardt,Florian // 2009
In the scope of ever growing complexity amongst engineering networks and products, application of Product-Lifecycle-Management (PLM) concepts has become an essential element in strategic enterprise ...
CAD Teams Performance Empowerment and Evaluation by Using E-Learning Tools
Bodein, Yannick; Rose, Bertrand; Caillaud, Emmanuel // 2009
3D CAD systems are used in practical product design to realize simultaneous engineering and also to improve productivity. It is today acknowledged that CAD tools can highly increase design ...
cADP Reloaded - New Experiences and Validation Approaches in Interdisciplinary Student Project Collaboration
Richter, Marc; Geis, Christian; König, Christina; Rambo, Jürgen // 2009
This paper presents the "collaborative Advanced Design Project" (cADP) and its use as an education and research environment for the development and validation of new work equipment (defined ...
Cameraphones as New Design Tools
Farrugia, Philip; Borg, Jonathan // 2009
It is well known that at the early design stage, designers still prefer the fluidity of traditional sketching as means to express their form concepts, instead of the rigid, user-interface of ...
Can we Engineer Better Process Models?
Kannengiesser, Udo // 2009
This paper proposes an engineering design view of process modelling that helps address the high complexity and low flexibility of many process models. In this view, processes are understood as ...
Capacity for sustainability: the changing contexts of design education
O'Rafferty, Simon; Curtis, Hannah; O'Connor, Frank // 2009
The role of design education is evolving due to structural changes in industry and society. These changes include the strategic positioning of design in business, new demographics of ageing, ...
Case study based education in Product Lifecycle Management
Eigner, Martin; Langlotz, Martin; Reinhardt, Peter // 2009
The paper introduces a new concept for the design of case study based courses in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) education using the example of a successfully implemented PLM course module. The ...
Case Study: Application of Team-Based Learning to a Mechanical Engineering Design Course Traditionally Taught in Lecture Format
van der Loos, Hendrik F. Machiel; Ostafichuk, Peter M. // 2009
The teaching of a third-year university course in design elements - e.g., gears, belts, bolts, bearings - has traditionally been taught in lecture format. In response to student feedback from the ...
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.