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Shifting paradigm: Towards a comprehensive understanding of quality
Falk, Björn ); Stylidis, Konstantinos Wickman, Casper ; Söderberg, Rikard ; Schmitt, Robert // 2017
The development of competitive products is not a question of unique and expensive features but of best quality for money. Yet, defining quality from a customer’s perspective and realizing it ...
Structure sharing for resource effective solutions: Improving measures to account for importance and quality of functions
Ghazanfari, Ehsan; Singh, Vishal // 2017
Structured sharing is believed to improve resource effectiveness of design solutions by allowing multiple functions to be achieved from the same shared structure. The current measures for assessing ...
The Analogy Retriever – an idea generation tool
Han, Ji; Shi, Feng; Chen, Liuqing; Childs, Peter R. N. // 2017
Idea generation plays a vital role in design, but coming up with ideas, especially creative ideas, is often challenging. Analogy is considered as a fundamental component of creativity and a ...
The application of quality functional deployment to modular offsite construction products
Wee, Tanawan Pang Yew; Aurisicchio, Marco; Starzyk, Ireneusz // 2017
This paper investigates requirement management practices in the construction industry, and proposes and evaluates the application of Quality Functional Deployment as a requirements analysis tool for ...
The role of multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) in the development process of complex engineering products
Papageorgiou, Athanasios; Ölvander, Johan // 2017
The work presented in this paper explores several concepts related to the design of complex engineering products and emphasizes on the effects of considering Multidisciplinary Design Optimization ...
Towards robust inter-organizational synergy: Perceived quality knowledge transfer in the automotive industry
Stenholm, Daniel; Stylidis, Konstantinos; Bergsjö, Dag; Söderberg, Rikard // 2017
With the highly competitive market environment, organizations which want to promote innovation are imposed to create strategic alliances. In this situation involved parties have to exchange knowledge ...
Usability of processes in engineering design
Becerril, Lucia; Stahlmann, Jan-Timo; Beck, Jesco; Lindemann, Udo // 2017
Processes in Engineering Design are generally optimized towards efficiency, quality, costs, risks, etc., however an analysis that includes requirements from the process users' view is missing. Within ...
Using clustering algorithms to identify subproblems in design processes
Morency, Michael; Anparasan, Azrah; Herrmann, Jeffrey; Gralla, Erica // 2017
Designers work in teams to design complex systems. They separate the design problem into subproblems and solve the smaller, more manageable subproblems. Because this affects the overall quality of ...
Using embedded design structures to unravel a complex decision in a product development system
McKay, Alison; Sammonds, George ; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema; Irnazarow, Aleksandra; Robinson, Mark // 2017
Early design decisions have an impact on downstream product development processes. Poor decisions can reduce efficiency and effectiveness, and have a detrimental effect on product quality, delivery ...
Using local invasive species and flora to manufacture collagen based biodegradable plastic tableware
Willett, Kathryn; Howell, Bryan // 2017
This paper explains how we designed, developed and tested a locally sourced; environmentally sensitive, biodegradable collagen plastic. It discusses the creation of simple moulds for manufacturing ...
Using point cloud technology for process simulation in the context of digital factory based on a systems engineering integrated approach
Salehi, Vahid; Wang, Shirui // 2017
Currently, there is a huge potential to improve the digital factory information by using a 3D scanner to build up the digital factory environment. The results of the scanning process are point clouds ...
A multi-context design approach for a portable ultrasound device
Kersten, Wouter; Diehl, Jan Carel; Crul, Marcel; Van Engelen, Jo; // 2016
The world is complex. Amongst others, this means that many elements are interconnected. When designing solutions, this complexity is often seen as cumbersome, resulting in (over) simplification of ...
A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF TRENDS IN PERCEIVED QUALITY DESIGN ATTRIBUTES IN THE AUTOMOTIVE LUXURY MARKET SEGMENT
Stylidis, K.; Burnap, A.; Rossi, M.; Wickman, C.; Söderberg, R.; Papalambros, P. Y. // 2016
The premium vehicle segment has focused on excellent manufacturing quality, while in contrast the luxury segment has focused on emotional and personalized appeal. We perform qualitative analysis of ...
AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF ECF CYCLE IN DESIGN CONCEPT GENERATION PROCESS (Members only )
Kawahara, Takahiro; Nakagiri, Taku; Nomaguchi, Yutaka; Fujita, Kikuo // 2016
Design concept generation is an important task for producing innovative products. Many methods have been proposed for supporting design concept generation, such as variations of brainstorming, theory ...
ANALYSIS OF SUCCESS FACTORS IN LEAN INNOVATION
Schuh, G.; Rudolf, S.; Koch, J.; Riesener, M. // 2016
To ensure competitiveness manufacturing companies have to increase both effectiveness and efficiency within their product development. In order to focus on value creation and to eliminate waste the ...
Ansatz zur modellunterstützten Vorauslegung von Messsystemen für die Erfassung von mechanisch-dynamischen Größen von Power-Tools (Members only )
Matthiesen, Sven; Wettstein, Andreas; Bruchmüller, Tim; Anding, Tristan // 2016
Within the product development process the product and the measurement system to validate the product functionalities has to be developed simultaneously. An effective measurement system initiates ...
ASSESSING IMPACTS OF MODULAR PRODUCT ARCHITECTURES ON THE FIRM: A CASE STUDY
Windheim, M.; Hackl, J.; Gebhardt, N.; Krause, D. // 2016
Product modularization is difficult and has far-reaching impacts for the company. It requires a sound understanding of cause and effect chains, which start with product structure decisions, such as ...
Bad Ideas in Creative Design Space Exploration
Ricardo, Sosa; Andre, Chaszar // 2016
This paper re-examines the nature and role of design ideas beyond criteria of quality are commonly used to evaluate the output of experimental design tasks, to guide the search processes of ...
CAN DIAGRAMS HELP IMPROVE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS DESIGN AND CARE DELIVERY?
Komashie, A.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2016
There is significant evidence to suggest that healthcare systems even in developed countries do not work as desired, leading to millions of pounds in cost and a growing demand for improvements in ...
CHALLENGES OF COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT STYLING IN DESIGN TEAMS
Ovesen, Nis // 2016
Apart from a long list of advantages, design students face certain challenges when working
collectively in groups on form, styling and aesthetics. An investigation about these challenges has
been ...
COMPARING THE USEFULNESS OF RULES & NO RULES IN ENGINEERING DESIGN BRAINSTORMING?
Dekoninck, Elies; Barrie, Jeffrey; Linley, Aaron // 2016
The most common early-stage design technique is brainstorming based on Osborne’s classical rules.
This paper contributes to research which explores how brainstorming should be taught in ...
CONSIDERING EMOTIONAL IMPRESSIONS IN PRODUCT DESIGN: QUALITY OF LIFE THEORY AND ITS IMPACT ON DESIGN STRATEGY
Kett, S. G.; Wartzack, S. // 2016
In this paper, the necessity of emotional considerations in the context of Universal Design is treated. To work out an alternative approach how to integrate emotional aspects in product design ...
Creative Personalities: How Personality Influences Creativity of Concept Ideation Methods
Friederich, Berthelsdorf; Ryan, Arlitt; Jessica, Armstrong; Abigail, Wilson; Robert, Stone // 2016
This paper details an independent confirmatory study to Choo et al. (2014), which
demonstrated that correlations exist between personality type and the outcome of concept
ideation methods. We ...
Design for Logistics: Development of a Process Model
Utz, Andreas; Wilberg, Julian; Lindemann, Udo // 2016
Companies are confronted with increasing competitive pressure because customers demand cheaper products but at the same time want many high quality variants. Therefore, companies strive to increase ...
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.