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DECISION BASED VARIABLE MECHATRONIC DESIGN PROCESSES
Hehenberger, Peter; Farrokhzad, Babak; Poltschak, Florian // 2011
Mechatronics design is integration of mechanics, electronics and software. As new functionality in products is realized to a large extent through integration of mechanics, electronics and software ...
DECISION PROCESSES IN ENGINEERING DESIGN: A NETWORK PERSPECTIVE OF STAKEHOLDER AND TASK INTERACTION
Jupp, Julie Rose // 2011
In recent years, there has been significant attention given to developing decision support methods and tools for engineering design. While advances in the formal, mathematical modeling and ...
DECISION SUPPORT FOR IMPROVING THE DESIGN OF HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS BY LEADING FEEDBACK INTO PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Abramovici, Michael; Lindner, Andreas; Walde, Florian; Fathi, Madjid; Dienst, Susanne // 2011
Hydraulic systems are used in great numbers and serve a variety of purposes. Still, however, the operating efficiency of hydraulic systems is not as high as it could be. New ways of monitoring the ...
DECISION-MAKING IN DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION PROJECTS: A VALUE APPROACH
Petetin, François; Bertoluci, Gwenola; Bocquet, Jean-Claude // 2011
Disruptive technological innovation projects are very challenging for small firms, especially in industrial sectors with very high reliability expectations. Will the innovation create enough value to ...
DESCRIPTION, PRESCRIPTION AND “BAD” DESIGN
Winkelman, Paul // 2011
Design methodologies can serve the purposes of description, prescription, or the creation of norms. A given methodology can display features of all three. In such cases, does the presence of all ...
DESIGN DRIVEN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Petersen, Soren Ingomar; Steinert, Martin; Beckman, Sara L. // 2011
Design practice and anecdotal evidence point to the existence of a chasm between business plan generation and the execution. The failure to including vital industrial design criteria in these plans ...
DESIGN EXPLORATION WITH USELESS RULES AND EYE TRACKING
Jowers, Iestyn; Prats, Miquel; McKay, Alison; Garner, Steve // 2011
uter-aided design systems, offer poor support for shape reinterpretation, and are not well suited to ideation in early stages of design. A key difficulty in implementing systems that support shape ...
DESIGN FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES: NEW APPLICATIONS OF 3D-PRINTING FOR RAPID PROTOTYPING AND RAPID TOOLING
Junk, Stefan; Tränkle, Marco // 2011
The application of additive manufacturing technologies is becoming established in an increasing number of product development sectors. This allows a number of additive manufacturing technologies to ...
DESIGN FOR DEPENDABILITY - IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL WEAKNESSES IN PRODUCT CONCEPTS
Wendland, Michael; Sadek, Tim // 2011
The increasing competitiveness and the need to create innovative products force manufacturers to replace conventional technologies in their products by new technologies, thus injecting uncertainty in ...
DESIGN FOR DIAGNOSIS
Stetter, Ralf; Phleps, Ulrike // 2011
Until now a large series of helpful guidelines for the design of products in the more concrete stages of design and product development were generated and published under the notion design for X, ...
DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY: AN EVENT- AND FUNCTION-BASED FRAMEWORK FOR FAILURE BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF COGNITIVE PRODUCTS
Sop Njindam, Thierry; Paetzold, Kristin // 2011
Product complexity in modern engineering is rising at an ever-increasing rate for several reasons. On the one hand, designers are aimed at extending the functionality of products, thus, integrating ...
DESIGN INSPIRED INNOVATION FOR RURAL INDIA
Ekman, Sten; Ekman, Annalill; Salunkhe, Uday; Agarwal, Anuja // 2011
The need for reducing poverty and to develop the standard of living in rural areas around the world is enormous. Ideas for new approaches have to be implemented. Design thinking and methods combined ...
DESIGN OF AN UPPER LIMB INDEPENDENCE SUPPORT DEVICE USING A PNEUMATIC CYLINDER
Saga, Norihiko; Kirihara, Koichi // 2011
This paper describes a device to support a ...
DESIGN OF FUNCTIONS BY FUNCTION BLENDING
Park, Yu; Ohashi, Shota; Yamamoto, Eiko; Taura, Toshiharu // 2011
This study aims to develop a method for supporting the design of a new function. Currently, in product development and design, the question “What should we create?” is the main issue to be addressed, ...
DESIGN OF INNOVATIVE PRODUCT PROFILES: ANTICIPATORY ESTIMATION OF SUCCESS POTENTIAL
Cascini, Gaetano; Borgianni, Yuri; Cardillo, Alessandro; Rotini, Federico // 2011
According to the current trend to extend the domain of application of Engineering Design to the whole Product Cycle, i.e. from the definition of the product profile to the management of the ...
DESIGN PROCESS AUTOMATION – A STRUCTURED PRODUCT DESCRIPTION BY PROPERTIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS
Gramlich, Sebastian; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
Automation of the product development process or of sub-processes is one possibility to support designers by their daily work. A concept for a formalized and structured description of ...
DESIGN RESEARCH REFLECTIONS - 30 YEARS ON
Wallace, Ken; Hales, Crispin // 2011
At ICED 83 in Copenhagen in 1983, we presented a paper describing the start of a large participant observation study in industry. We expressed our early views about the issues that needed to be ...
DESIGN SUPPORT TOOLS FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS
Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Sang Won; Lee, Jee-Hyong; Han, Dae Man; Lee, Hye Kyung // 2011
This paper discusses design support tools for product-service systems (PSS). During PSS design process comprising six phases such as requirement identification and value targeting, stakeholder ...
DESIGN-BY-ANALOGY USING THE WORDTREE METHOD AND AN AUTOMATED WORDTREE GENERATING TOOL
Oriakhi, Edgar; Linsey, Julie; Peng, Xiaobo // 2011
Design-by-Analogy is an approach that is widely embraced by designers seeking innovation. The identification of analogies is difficult, often spontaneous and not done by a systematic design process. ...
DESIGNER BEHAVIOUR AND ACTIVITY: AN INDUSTRIAL OBSERVATION METHOD
Cash, Philip; Hicks, Ben; Culley, Steve; Salustri, Filippo // 2011
The relationship between laboratory based study and the actual practice of engineering design is very important. For research activity, laboratory based studies have an important role. The problem is ...
DESIGNERS' THINKING AND ACTING IN MEETINGS WITH CLIENTS
Da Silva Vieira, Sonia Liliana; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Fernandes, Antonio Augusto; Fonseca, Teresa // 2011
The present research attempts to contribute to the understanding of how designers’ thinking and acting enhance the value of the design process and deliver value to design results. The present study ...
DESIGNING A PROCESS FOR A MONOPOLY TO TRANSFORM TO A FREE MARKET COMPETITOR - THE SWEDISH PHARMACY SYSTEM
Ekman, Annalill; Carlsson, Stefan; Ekman, Sten // 2011
The purpose of this paper is to examine how a political driven transition of a large company, Apoteket AB in Sweden with 12,000 employees – the pharmacy state monopoly – can be managed to a free ...
DESIGNING CONSISTENT STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS SCENARIOS
Biedermann, Wieland; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
Companies face challenges due to rising complexity through shorter market lifecycles, manifold costumer requirements, additional solutions options and discipline-spanning cooperation. Efficient tools ...
DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE: USING A DELPHI STUDY TO IDENTIFY RESILIENCE ISSUES FOR HOSPITAL DESIGNS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Masko, Mary Lou; Eckert, Claudia M.; Caldwell, Nicholas H.M.; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Hospitals are facing a triple challenge - meeting mandatory climate change targets and refurbishing aging infrastructure while simultaneously providing quality of care. With the potential of more ...
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.