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Towards structured integration of maintenance knowledge in industrial equipment design
Mulder, Wienik; Basten, Rob J. I.; Jauregui Becker, Juan M.; Van Dongen, Leo A. M. // 2013
Industrial equipment requires maintenance to remain operational. The level of maintenance that is required, and how easily it can be executed, is affected by the characteristics of the equipment. ...
Transforming user requirements into technical requirements for development of a new control access for people with reduced environmental impact
Breier, Guilherme; Echevest, Marcia Elisa; ten Caten, Carla // 2013
This paper presents a proposal for evaluation of product development in the electronics industry based on the application of the tool QFD (Quality Function Deployment) oriented environmental ...
Tutorial sustainable innovations - An innovative role-play concept for education
Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Hanusch, Dirk // 2013
Developing sustainable products is no easy task. For designers, this means that not only technical requirements for functional performance but also ecological, economic and social requirements have ...
A shape grammar approach for automotive styling: the case of the French cars
Bluntzer, Jean-Bernard; Ostrosi, Egon; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2012
Today, an important quality of a brand or a strong family is its clear and precise identity. Moreover, in order to obtain a winning brand, the company managers should continuously be innovative ...
A Systematic Self-Assessment Tool
Berglund, Anders; Tretten, Phillip; H, Anders // 2012
The Bologna Process has led to fundamental changes in the way students are taught. This in turn has led to new quality assurance systems for teaching. For good outcomes to occur both the teachers and ...
ASSEMBLY TIME ESTIMATION MODEL FOR EARLY PRODUCT DESIGN PHASES – CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT AND EMPIRICAL VALIDATION
Halfmann, N.; Krause, D. // 2012
Concept development for products designed for assembly requires continous analysis of the resulting production processes. Exisiting methods for assembly time calculation require high quality of ...
Cognitive Load Management and Architectural Design Outcomes
Mohamed-Ahmed, A.; Bonnardel, N.; Côté, P.; Tremblay, S. // 2012
The aim of this study was to analyze the link between the way designers manage cognitive load during the process of architectural design and the outcome of this process, that is, the quality of the ...
Creative Design Opportunities into Knowledge Based Engineering Process
Boxberger, J.; Lebouteiller, M.; Schlegeld, D.; Lebaaln, N.; Gomes, S. // 2012
High competition and low manufacturing costs in emerging countries, forces European firms to improve quality, cost and delivery. In this context, research and development departments have to look ...
CRITERIA FOR EVALUATING THE SUCCESS OF LARGE-SCALE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
Steuber, M.; Oehmen ,J. // 2012
The success framework describes performance aspects of large-scale engineering programs. It consists of 26 metrics in 5 categories. They are: 1. Enterprise strategy alignment, 2. Performance and ...
CUSTOMIZED PRODUCT DESIGN BASED ON MEDICAL IMAGING
Harih, G.; Dolšak ,B.; Kaljun, J. // 2012
The increase of market demand for customized products and limitations within traditional Design methods has led to development of new user-centered Design methods based on multidisciplinary approach ...
Designing Emotional Services for Underground Stations
Pillan, M.; Maiocchi, M.; Galli, F. // 2012
Underground stations, while offering necessary access points to public transportation service facilities, offer great opportunities of urban dinamization. The paper presents the results of a design ...
Effect of Teamwork Modes in Distributed International Design Teams
Man, Jeff; Lu, Yuan; Alblas, Alex; Brombacher, Aarnout // 2012
Over the past decades, the creation and development of new products has become a truly global activity. This requires people from different cultures on different locations to closely work together. ...
Factors Affecting to Exploitation of Modularity
Lehtinen, Jouni; Lehtonen, Timo; Juuti, Tero; Riitahuhta, Asko // 2012
Utilizing the benefits of modular products is an industrial phenomenon that has emerged in second quarter of 20th century. This was made possible by developments in manufacturing technologies such as ...
Foroba Yelen: Portable Solar Lighting and Sustainable Strategies for Remove Malian Villages
Hall, Ashley; Konate, Boukary; Kulkarni, Amrita // 2012
Foroba Yelen (‘collective light’ in the Malian Bambara language) is a collaboration between staff and students from the Innovation Design Engineering dual masters programme at the Royal College of ...
Functional structure based change assessment in product design
Oizumi, K.; Aoyama, K. // 2012
Product development projects often face change requests while the project is still going on. To decide whether to accept these changes, not only the outcome expected to obtain by fulfilling changes, ...
How Can Creative Self-Efficacy by Fostered in Design Education?
Jobst, Birgit; Meinel, Christoph // 2012
Creative self-efficacy plays an important role in the context of innovation: Without this belief in our creative abilities we cannot act when facing challenging situations, for instance wicked ...
IDEATION METRICS: INTERDEPENDENCY BETWEEN AVERAGE NOVELTY AND VARIETY
Jagtap, S.; Larsson, A.; Hiort ,V.; Olander, E.; Warell ,A. // 2012
The importance of ideation in the conceptual design phase has been widely accepted. Shah et al. (2003) developed four key metrics for evaluating a designer’s exploration and expansion of design ...
Improved Application of Design Methodology: Taking Man-Induced Disturbances into Account
Hinsch, Malte Sebastian; Heller, Jan Erik // 2012
To support design engineers and managers in product development, many approaches exist. Their success most generally relies equally on man’s knowledge and ingenuity. Likewise, human attributes tend ...
Investigating the importance of sustainability information in Product Development and Design
Aschehoug, Silje Helene; Ringen, Geir; Boks, Casper; Aasland, Knut Einar // 2012
To further improve the sustainability performance of products, a sustainability information framework beyond mere product and process data has been developed. This was done under the assumption that ...
Mapping the added value of design thinking in social entrepreneurship
Fladvad Nielsen, Brita; Asheim, Jonas // 2012
Social designers and social entrepreneurs aim at improving life quality locally and globally. As research on social entrepreneurship is intensified in the Nordic countries, it is important also for ...
Markerlose Bewegungsaufzeichnung und Bewertungsmethoden f (Members only )
J // 2012
Human-centered design focuses on the adaption of product specifications
to meet the users’ requirements. In order to save development time, reduce
product development costs as well ...
Matrix based approach in assessing optimum robust product architectures (Members only )
Osman, Krešimir; Marjanović, Dorian // 2012
This paper proposes a matrix based approach with aim to help mechanical designers tackle the problem of risk emerging in assessing product architecture under the uncertain operating ...
MDM-based representation of requirement/function relation in the sound design for consumer electronics
Seki, K.; Yamagishi, K.; Nishimura, H. // 2012
Acoustic design for consumer products spans multiple design domains from setting reference acoustic quality to function design and structure design. In the process specific to acoustic design, a ...
New Methods to Improve Teaching Quality in the New Era - A Study based on Aalto-Tongji Design Factory Teaching Pedagogical Development Project
Duan, WU // 2012
The Aalto-Tongji Design Factory in Shanghai is a creative environment bringing together universities, business and society to create new ways of learning, research and innovative collaboration. As ...
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.