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APPROACH FOR THE CREATION OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEM MODELS
Follmer, Martin; Hehenberger, Peter; Punz, Stefan; Rosen, Roland; Zeman, Klaus // 2011
One of the major challenges in developing mechatronic products is the increasing complexity of the products themselves. The defining feature of mechatronic products is the interplay between various ...
APPROACH TO VISUALIZE THE SUPPLY CHAIN COMPLEXITY INDUCED BY PRODUCT VARIETY
Brosch, Max; Beckmann, Gregor; Krause, Dieter // 2011
Due to the high level of individualization and globalization, companies increase their product variety, which leads to an increased internal complexity at the level of the products, business ...
AROUND YOU: HOW DESIGNERS GET INSPIRED
Gonçalves, Milene Guerreiro; Cardoso, Carlos; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
Searching for sources for inspiration during the design process is a widespread activity and it is considered as a crucial step for most designers, independent of the degree of expertise. However, ...
ASSESSING QUALITY OF IDEAS IN CONCEPTUAL MECHANICAL DESIGN
Lewis, William P; Field, Bruce W; Weir, John G // 2011
A recurring theme in engineering design is the need to upgrade the performance of existing systems and products as potential defects overlooked in the original design come to light during operation ...
ASSESSING THE CONDITIONS FOR DISSEMINATION OF END-USER AND PURCHASER KNOWLEDGE IN A MEDTECH CONTEXT
Wadell, Carl; Norell Bergendahl, Margareta // 2011
A challenge for many medical technology companies is to satisfy the often differing needs and requirements of the purchaser of new medical technology and the end-user. This implies that medical ...
ASSOCIATIVE THINKING AS A DESIGN STRATEGY AND ITS RELATION TO CREATIVITY
Casakin, Hernan // 2011
Associative thinking can help designers to reflect over a problem situation by focusing on unrelated perspectives. During this process, a mapping of high order relations can be established between a ...
AUTOMATED USER BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS
Choi, Yeeun; Jang, Misun; Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Seongil // 2011
This study’s aim is to improve existing methodology for users’ evaluation that performs tasks in environment observation. We examine a new user's monitoring system and analyze for monitoring ...
AUTONOMOUS VISUALIZATION AGENTS TO ENHANCE THE ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL PROTOTYPES
Radkowski, Rafael; Gausemeier, Jürgen // 2011
A virtual prototype specifies the shape and the behavior of a product under development. However, it is a computer-internal representation of this product and suitable visualization techniques are ...
BALANCING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PRODUCT VARIETY IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Graessler, Iris // 2011
Applicability of “Mass Customization” to mechatronic systems is proven by various product examples in automobile industry. For example, chassis performance is adjusted to the driver’s specific wishes ...
BAYESIAN PROJECT MONITORING
Matthews, Peter C; Philip, Alex D M // 2011
This paper studies how subtle signals that can be observed from the execution order of a project with several tasks can be used to diagnose potential problems that will hinder the project. ...
BENCHMARKING STUDY OF AUTOMOTIVE SEAT TRACK SENSITIVITY TO MANUFACTURING VARIATION
Mazur, Maciej; Leary, Martin; Huang, Sunan; Aleksandar, Subic; Baxter, Tony // 2011
A benchmarking study is presented on the performance of automotive seat track profiles according to their sensitivity to manufacturing variation. Variation in rail geometry affects the elastic track ...
BIOINSPIRED CONCEPTUAL DESIGN (BICD): CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF A GRASSHOPPER-LIKE JUMPING MECHANISM AS A CASE STUDY
Konez, Ero // 2011
The evolution process of nature creates highly effective, power efficient, and perfectly structured biological systems. These excellent systems provide an inexhaustible source for engineers and ...
BROWNFIELD PROCESS FOR DEVELOPING OF PRODUCT FAMILIES
Lehtonen, Timo; Pakkanen, Jarkko; Lanz, Minna; Järvenpää, Jukka; Tuokko, Reijo // 2011
This paper represents a development process of product families in a case where already available designs are emphasized. This can be called as a brownfield process. Tools, which support the ...
BUSINESS MODEL DESIGN METHODOLOGY FOR INNOVATIVE PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS: A STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURED APPROACH
Lee, Ji Hwan; Shin, Dong Ik; Hong, Yoo S.; Kim, Yong se // 2011
The business model is receiving considerable attention these days as companies achieve great success, or suffer damaging failure, by changing their way of doing business. The present study aims to ...
BUSINESS PLANS INFORMED BY DESIGN
Petersen, Soren Ingomar; Heebøll, John // 2011
Today the value created by applying design at a business model and innovation level as opposed to a design and process level is marginal. Interviews with product developers from academia and industry ...
CAN DESIGNERS BE PROACTIVELY SUPPORTED AS FROM PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS?
Galea, Amanda; Borg, Jonathan; Grech, Alexia; Farrugia, Philip // 2011
During the design process, designers are concerned with two main types of issues - issues related to “what needs to be achieved” or “whats” and issues related to “how these needs will be met” or ...
CAN EXISTING USABILITY TECHNIQUES PREVENT TOMORROW’S USABILITY PROBLEMS?
Harkema, Christelle; Luyk - de Visser, Ilse; Dorst, Kees; Brombacher, Aarnout // 2011
Product usability is necessary to ensure efficient and effective products which satisfy users. But despite all available usability techniques many users still experience usability problems when using ...
CAPTURING INTERACTIONS IN DESIGN PREFERENCES: A COLORFUL STUDY
Orsborn, Seth; Talecki, Hannah // 2011
Many engineering and marketing tools exist to help a designer optimize quantitative attributes of a product, such as height, weight, volume, or cost. However, these methods cannot effectively take ...
CAPTURING THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN PROCESS WITH CONCEPT-CONFIGURATION-EVALUATION TRIPLETS
Kroll, Ehud; Shihmanter, Alexander // 2011
Design knowledge is a key asset that companies find difficult to capture and access. Since most design is redesign, being able to use prior knowledge effectively is crucial. A record of the design ...
CASE STUDIES TO EXPLORE INDEXING ISSUES IN PRODUCT DESIGN TRACEABILITY FRAMEWORK
Pavkovic, Neven; Bojcetic, Nenad; Franic, Leonard; Marjanovi // 2011
Little is currently understood about the requirements for engineering information traceability in product development environment, and there are few methods by which effective traceability can be ...
CHALLENGES AND LIMITATIONS OF APPLYING AN EMOTION-DRIVEN DESIGN APPROACH ON ELDERLY USERS
Andersen, Casper L.; Gudmundsson, Hjalte P.; Achiche, Sofiane; Boelskifte, Per // 2011
Population ageing is without parallel in human history and the twenty-first century will witness even more rapid ageing than did the century just past. Understanding the user needs of the elderly and ...
CHALLENGES IN NETWORKED INNOVATION
Maurer, Christiane; Valkenburg, Rianne // 2011
The paper discusses an exploratory study within a longitudinal research project on open innovation, and specifically, the collaboration of two or more companies, named networked innovation. Nine ...
CHALLENGES IN SEMANTIC KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FOR AEROSPACE DESIGN ENGINEERING
Sanya, Isaac; Shehab, Essam; Lowe, Dave // 2011
The efficient and effective management of knowledge is becoming increasing important within the aerospace design engineering sector due to the complexity of product development. The ongoing ...
CHARACTERIZATION OF LEADERSHIP WITHIN UNDERGRADUATE ENGINEERING DESIGN TEAMS THROUGH CASE STUDY ANALYSIS
Palmer, Gary; Summers, Joshua // 2011
The paper explores leadership that exists within undergraduate engineering design teams. Often, leadership is described based on managerial styles, leadership types and styles, emotional ...
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.