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A Planarity-Based Complexity Metric
Kortler, Sebastian; Kreimeyer, Matthias; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Complexity in product design, e.g. in product architectures or process structures, continuously increases. To properly evaluate a complex system or to compare it to other systems, complexity metrics ...
A practical approach to product design for future worlds using scenario-development.
Eggink, Wouter; Reinders, Angele; van der Meulen, Barend // 2009
The focus of consumer product design is shifting from primarily offering functionality, towards experience and emotion driven product characteristics. At the same time the functioning of products is ...
A Problem Decomposition Method for Conceptual Design
Sarkar,Somwrita; Dong,Andy ; Gero,S.John // 2009
In this paper, based on ndings from situated cognition, we argue that human reasoning is characterized by an ability to dynamically re-organize knowledge available in an experience, and re-construct ...
A Process Improvement Approach to Capitalize on Manufacturing Experience in Engineering Design
Andersson, Petter; Isaksson, Ola // 2009
The ability to capitalize on company knowledge and experience earned in various projects is recognized as key assets in the competition on the growing global market. Methods and tools are constantly ...
A Quality Function Deployment Method Pattern Language for EfficientDesign
Rogers, Damian; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is widely used throughout design processes to increase customer satisfaction. However, the method is sometimes not clearly understood and is at times confusing in ...
A Quality Improving Method to Assist the Integrated Product Development Process
Negroni, Daniella Yada; Trabasso, Luís Gonzaga // 2009
Several studies confirm the benefits of anticipating the problems that might occur in the products lifecycle to the conceptual phase of the integrated product development (IPD) process. The challenge ...
A Reference Model for Using Visualization within Product Realization Projects
Wikström, Anders // 2009
There is a need to develop and implement new innovative methods and models that will support and strengthen SMEs (Small and Medium sized Enterprises) to generate new ideas and realize these into ...
A Review of Product Sketching in Early Phases of Design
Onkar, S.Prasad ; Sen,Dibakar // 2009
Sketching has been the chosen method of expression of product ideas in the initial phase of product design.Existing CAD modeling systems do not support the early phases of design effectively. There ...
A Revised Two-Phase Method for Decomposition of Design Problems
Li, Simon // 2009
The two-phase decomposition method has two major components: dependency analysis and partitioning analysis, which offer necessary sub-functions for problem decomposition. While dependency analysis ...
A Social Perspective on the Interview Technique in Design Research. Part I: Interviews in Design Research
Motte,Damien // 2009
Many studies focusing on design activities use the interview technique as part of their investigation. Nevertheless,methodological discussions about the interview setting as the locus of a social ...
A Social Perspective on the Interview Technique in Design Research. Part II: The Interview as a Social Situation
Motte,Damien // 2009
Many studies focusing on design activities use the interview technique as part of their investigation. Nevertheless,methodological discussions about the interview setting as the locus of a social ...
A Structured Approach to Re-Organize for Creativity
Sosa, Manuel; Danilovic, Mike // 2009
One of the most difficult challenges when managing innovation is to identify the individuals within the organization that need to work closely with each other to maximize the generation of creative ...
A Taxonomy of Collaboration across in Supply Chains
Zolghadri, Marc; Eckert, Claudia; Zouggar, Salah; Girard, Philippe // 2009
The success or failure of a product design and development (PD) project depends strongly on the right contributions from its various suppliers. This is specifically the case when these suppliers do ...
A Theory of the Constituent Elements of Functions
Fantoni, Gualtiero; Apreda, Riccardo; Bonaccorsi, Andrea // 2009
The aim of the paper is to present a new proposal for functional analysis. The approach here presented is the first step towards a novel methodology called FAB (functional analysis breakdown) where ...
A transferable model for innovative joint postgraduate degree programme development
Maclachlan, Ross J. R.; Ion, William J.; Kochanowska, Rowena; Hansen, Saskia; Herstatt, Cornelius; Buse, Stephan; Galla, Randolph; Boer, Harry; Thorup, Pedersen, Lise // 2009
The Global Innovation Management (GIM) MSc programme is a 2 year, 120 ECTS, joint degree programme delivered and awarded by the consortium of the University of Strathclyde (UofS) in Scotland, Aalborg ...
A Working Knowledge Model for Supporting Early Design through Visual Tools
Devanathan, Srikanth; Sauter, Christian; Albers, Albert; Ramani, Karthik // 2009
In this article, we present a working knowledge model (WKM) that collates information from commonly used visual tools to support iterations in conceptual design of mechanical artifacts. The key ...
About the Use of TRIZ for Product-Service Development
Rovida, Edoardo; Bertoni, Marco; Carulli, Marina // 2009
The aim of this paper is to understand how the Theory of Inventor's Problem Solving (TRIZ) may be applied in the development of product-service combinations. The authors have analyzed TRIZ ...
Achieving Pareto Optimality in a Decentralized Design Environment
Honda, Tomonori; Ciucci, Francesco; Yang, Maria C. // 2009
As engineering systems grow in complexity, the teams that design them require increasingly disparate expertise and must operate in a more distributed fashion. At the same time, subsystem design teams ...
Action research into the use of parametric associative CAD systems in an industrial context
Salehi, Vahid; McMahon, Chris // 2009
This paper reports the first stages from a research programme into the application of parametric associative CAD systems adopting the Design Research Methodology (DRM) according to Blessing. The ...
Active Learning Project Sequence: Capstone Experience for Multi- Disciplinary System Design and Management Education
Ishii, Kosuke; de Weck, Olivier; Haruyama, Shinichiro; Maeno, Takashi; Kim, Sun; Fowler, Whit // 2009
Whereas team project-based learning of engineering design has attracted wide acceptance, it is still rare to see a curriculum that addresses high level societal needs involving diverse students with ...
Adapting Eco-Innovation Tools to the Needs of the Company: A Case Study
O’Hare, Jamie; Dekoninck, Elies; Turnbull, Aidan; McMahon, Chris // 2009
In this paper we consider the problem of the lack of industry uptake of eco-design and eco-innovation tools. We take a change management perspective on this problem and focus on eco-innovation tool ...
Aesthetic emotions and the evaluation of architectural design styles
Hernan, Pablo Casakin; Mastandrea, Stefano // 2009
The research studied aesthetic emotions and their relationship to architectural design styles. The goal was to see how people assess two contrasting design styles, namely Renaissance and Contemporary ...
Aesthetic-Aerodynamic Design Optimization of a Car Grille Profile While Preserving Brand Identity
Sareh, Pooya; Rowson, Jennifer // 2009
The purpose of this study is to investigate how to combine the aesthetic quality with the engineering functionality in a design project while preserving the brand identity. It is aimed to develop a ...
Affordance Feature Reasoning: A Case Study for Human-Product Interaction
Kim, Yong Se; Lim, Jin Seung; Park, Jin A // 2009
Affordances of a product are messages which could be perceived by a human user so that the product function can work by a user's activities naturally induced with the help of such messages. ...
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.