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LCA AND DESIGN THINKING: HOW TO INTEGRATE LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT IN EARLY-STAGE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT?
Barros, Mario; Laursen, Linda Nhu // 2024
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a comprehensive tool that supports sustainability by assessing products’ environmental impacts. It is both analytical and systemic. However, its integration in the ...
LEARNING ACTIVITIES TO DESIGN A PARAMETRIC SOLUTIONS SPACE FOR PRODUCTS IN INDUSTRY 4.0
Parmentier, Davy; Brosens, Lore; Christiaens, Yannick // 2024
The fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0, presents both challenges and opportunities for industrial design engineers. An European Union report on Industry 4.0 identified four main trends that<name of university> ...
Learning Content in Engineering Design Education: An Analysis for Developing Learning Materials Used at Multiple Universities
Kossack, Frederike; Neumann, Marc; Bender, Beate; Dillenhofer, Fabian; Kunne, Bernd; Sersch, Alina; Gust, Peter // 2024
The creation of e-learning materials often involves high initial effort but can then be used by many students with very little additional effort for a lecturer. It therefore makes sense to develop ...
Lightweight design and variety: A multi-model optimization approach in product development
Finn H. Christiansen; Pascal Inselmann; Dieter Krause // 2024
The contribution addresses the integration of lightweight design principles into the product development process while managing the challenges posed by increasing product variety. The paper ...
Lightweight Design in the Planning Phase - The Lightweight Requirements List
Busch, Philipp; Lorenz, Michael; Schleicher, Philipp // 2024
To realise the benefits of lightweight design, lightweight measures must be applied along all phases of the product development process. Recently, the focus has been on the early phases. Previous ...
LIMITED STORIES: SOCIAL DESIGN POTENTIALS WITHIN MARGINALISED CONTEXTS
Sarantou, Melanie; Qureshi, Amna; Jones, Sherrie // 2024
In social design processes, designers seek to improve challenges by using design to solve problems and answer communities' needs. Aspects of change are central to social design, as transformative ...
Man-Made Adaptations to Wool in the Anthropocene – Proposed Reference Framework for Fibre Comparison
Rubecksen, Hilde Stiegler; Steinert, Martin // 2024
This paper examines man-made adaptations to apparel wool in the Anthropocene and seeks to create a novel framework for mapping existing and novel fibre developments, treatments, and technologies. It ...
MATERIALITY AND THE MACHINE. MAXIMISING MATERIAL EXPERIENCES IN THE AGE OF AI
Almrott, Ceri; Colton, Keith; Ennis, Mark; O'Connor, Ina // 2024
There has been much written about the importance and impact of artificial intelligence and its associated technologies and the place they will have within the design field[1][2]. No doubt artificial ...
MEANING GENERATION THEORY : A BAYESIAN APPROACH TO SIGN
Kushi, Shotaro; Nakaji, Kouhei; Yanagisawa, Hideyoshi // 2024
This paper proposes the “Sign × Context = Meaning (Meaning Value)” framework for ideation in design engineering. By integrating abduction and Bayesian inference, the framework generates new meanings ...
Methodology for Support of Battery System Development with Format-Flexible Pouch-Cells Using Model-Based-Systems-Engineering
Zeng, Yunying; Muller-Welt, Philip; Bause, Katharina // 2024
This paper explores the evolving complexity of multidisciplinary development processes in battery systems. Designing battery systems with format-flexible cells challenges traditional approaches by ...
Methods and Approaches for Evaluating the Repairability of Mechatronic Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
Hermelingmeier, Dominik; Pape, Florian; Bunselmeyer, Laura; Pfeifer, Stefan; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2024
A suitable way to reduce the environmental impact of a product is to enhance its ability to be repaired. The repairability addresses many areas and is difficult to quantify. The presented systematic ...
Methods and Approaches for the Development of new Lifetime Models and their Integration in Digital Twins
Robin Bauer; Adrian Reuther; Christian Plesker; Benjamin Schleich; David Inkermann // 2024
To implement a degradation model in a Digital Twin, the degra-da-tion of a filament nozzle for Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is analysed. The nozzle orifice diameter undergoes an expansion due to ...
Minimal Data, Maximal Impact: Language Model-based Pipelines for the Automatic Generation of Use Case Diagrams from Requirements
Simon Schleifer; Adriana Lungu; Benjamin Kruse; Sebastiaan van Putten; Stefan Goetz; Sandro Wartzack // 2024
Striving for unique selling points leads to an increase in product requirements, which are prevalently written in natural language. In order to mitigate inherent ambiguities in these requirements ...
Model-Based Handling of Variability in Offer Management in Mechanical and Plant Engineering
Wilke, Daria; Bremer, Christian; Disselkamp, Jan-Philipp; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2024
This paper introduces a model-based approach for the offer phase in special-purpose machinery, focusing on simplifying customer requirements, rapid solution design, and cross-domain interaction. A ...
Modeling a sustainability-oriented development process with model-based systems engineering
Maximilian Peter Dammann; Paul Hoffeins; Julian Barth; Bernhard Saske; Kristin Paetzold-Byhain; Niels Modler // 2024
The shift towards sustainability-oriented product development demands early integration of sustainability criteria, a challenge due to the lack of effective methods and data. Expanding on existing ...
Modeling and Analyzing Interactions Between Stakeholders for Train Decarbonization Decisions at a Regional Scale
Benoît Volant; Franck Marle; Yann Leroy; Jeanne-Marie Dalbavie // 2024
This study addresses the complex network process regarding the technological swap of diesel-powered regional trains to reach the Paris Agreement's targets. Interviews with technical experts from ...
MODELLING INTERIOR YACHT DESIGN CONCEPTS CROSSING MULTIPLE AI TOOLS: TEACHING IN AN UNCERTAIN AND FLEXIBLE FRAMEWORK
Bionda, Arianna; Incitti, Gildo // 2024
Yacht design is a multidisciplinary sector where skills from design, architecture and engineering education are applied. The students involved in this field need to coordinate highly diversified ...
Modular Design Method Based on DSM Using Spectral Clustering for Frame Structures
Yasuo Asaga; Daichi Kunishi; Shiki Iwase; Hidekazu Nishigaki // 2024
Navigating the Hybrid Landscape: A Literature Study on Hybrid Development Approaches for Physical Products
Siewert, Lisa; Gericke, Kilian // 2024
Hybrid development approaches promise to entail the advantages of both agile and traditional techniques. Still there is no consensus on how a combination can look like and therefore a lot of variants ...
OLD PROCEDURE - NEW APPROACHES: QFD WITH CHATGPT - COMPREHENSIVE PRODUCT AND PROCESS UNDERSTANDING IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION
Nutzmann, Marc; Sauer, Thorsten; Voss, Markus; Bozkurt, Hulusi // 2024
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a known procedure used to ensure that customer needs and expectations are translated into product features. This can be gained by applying the ""House of ...
OPMITISING LEARNING IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; IMPROVING SKILLS THROUGH XR ENHANCED LEARNING SCENARIOS
Gonzalez Almaguer, Carlos Alberto; Berglund, Anders; Saavedra Gastelum, Verónica; Zubieta Ramírez, Claudia; Mendoza Madrigal, Alondra // 2024
Extended reality has better learning in less time and optimizing resources. This paper explores a student-centric course experiment rooted in the application and practice of a recently developed ...
Optimizing the individual design of revision hip implants – evaluating the effects for bone and stem using patient-specific finite element models
David Scherb; Maria Helena Barbosa; Harald Volkl; Christopher Fleischmann; Marcel Betsch; Stefan Sesselmann; Sandro Wartzack; Jorg Miehling // 2024
Patient-specific musculoskeletal models (MSM) can improve the selection and positioning of revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) during preoperative planning. By accounting for muscle weakening due ...
Optimizing Token Usage on Large Language Model Conversations Using the Design Structure Matrix
Ramon Maria Garcia Alarcia; Alessandro Golkar // 2024
As Large Language Models become ubiquitous in many sectors and tasks, there is a need to reduce token usage, overcoming challenges such as short context windows, limited output sizes, and costs ...
OPTIMIZING TOURISM FACTORY DESIGN: A STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR ENHANCING VISITOR EXPERIENCE THROUGH SPATIAL ZONING AND VISUAL GRAPH ANALYSIS
Yum, Joosun; Hung, Yu-Hsiu; Lee, Ji-Hyun // 2024
This study aims to enhance visitor experience in factory tours by developing a strategic framework for spatial design, using the Hwa Meei "Eye Fun Vision" tourism factory as a case study. 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.