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IDENTIFICATION OF SUITABLE PILOT PROJECTS IN THE FIELD OF LEAN DEVELOPMENT
Helten, Katharina; Eben, Katharina G. M.; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
The long term implementation of philosophies such as lean development requires special conditions and measures. Process improvements and positive effects of changes are difficult to prove. Pilot ...
IDENTIFICATION, TRANSLATION AND REALISATION OF REQUIREMENTS FOR A KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN AN ENGINEERING DESIGN CONSULTANCY
Thomson, Avril Isabel // 2011
This paper provides an overview of the development of a Knowledge Management system for an engineering design consultancy. It sets out a methodology from the initial importance of identifying ...
IDENTIFYING A DYNAMIC INTERACTION MODEL: A VIEW FROM THE DESIGNER-USER INTERACTIONS
Park, Jaehyun; Boland, Richard // 2011
Design innovation research has discovered a variety of features, forms, and functions; however, the importance of the design process has not been studied adequately. Designers and users have been ...
IDENTIFYING AND QUANTIFYING INDUSTRY PERCEPTIONS OF ENGINEERING DRAWING SKILLS IN NOVICE MALAYSIAN ENGINEERS
Burvill, Colin Reginald; Field, Bruce William; Abdullah, Zulkeflee // 2011
This paper reports on a survey completed to investigate the engineering drawing based technical competencies of novice (graduate) engineers from the perspective of the manufacturing industry sector. ...
IFMEA – INTEGRATION FAILURE MODE AND EFFECTS ANALYSIS
Punz, Stefan; Follmer, Martin; Hehenberger, Peter; Zeman, Klaus // 2011
During the product development process a lot of challenges have to be mastered. Beside ever shorter innovation cycles and time-to-market, products with increasing complexity such as mechatronic ...
IMMERSIVE PRODUCT IMPROVEMENT IPI – FIRST EMPIRICAL RESULTS OF A NEW METHOD
Kirschner, Rafael; Kain, Andreas; Lang, Alexander; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
Despite the widely accepted and proven benefits of open innovation methods, companies apply them infrequently in their own product development processes. In order to find reasons for this apparently ...
IMPACT OF MODULARISED PRODUCTION ON PRODUCT DESIGN IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Walla, Waldemar Paul; Baer, Thomas; Ovtcharova, Jivka // 2011
During the last decades, the product life cycle in the automotive industry decreased from 10 to 6 years or even less. At the same time the demand for individualized and configurable cars has ...
IMPLEMENTING DESIGN CRITIQUE FOR TEACHING SUSTAINABLE CONCEPT GENERATION
Bernstein, William Zev; Ramanujan, Devarajan; Cox, Monica F; Zhao, Fu; Sutherland, John W; Ramani, Karthik // 2011
Product design is one of the most important activities that can influence sustainability. Therefore, it is critical to educate students about these methodologies as they are the next generation of ...
IMPROVING COMMUNICATION IN DESIGN: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE LITERATURE
Maier, Anja M.; Doenmez, Denniz; Hepperle, Clemens; Kreimeyer, Matthias; Lindemann, Udo; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Communication permeates every aspect of an engineer’s work – from clarifying product specifications to shaping social ties. This paper offers an overview of recommendations from literature to improve ...
IMPROVING DATA QUALITY IN DSM MODELLING: A STRUCTURAL COMPARISON APPROACH
Schmitz, Steffen; Wynn, David; Biedermann, Wieland; Lindemann, Udo; Clarkson, P John // 2011
The Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) has proved to be a useful tool for system structure elicitation and analysis. However, as with any modelling approach, the insights gained from analysis are ...
IMPROVING DESIGN RATIONALE CAPTURE DURING EMBODIMENT DESIGN
van Schaik, Jeroen Robbert; Scanlan, Jim; Keane, Andy; Takeda, Kenji; Gorissen, Dirk // 2011
Design rationale can help solve difficult problems, aid design reviews and make design reuse easier. It is observed that the capture and reuse of rationale tends to decrease during the detail design ...
IMPROVING ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN INDIA USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: A NEW FRAMEWORK
Mehta, Prerak Prakashchandra // 2011
Given the current scenario of engineering education in India, there is a dire need of improvement in the way engineering education is structured and the guidelines it follows. With Information and ...
IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF DESIGN PROJECT RISKS USING THE CONCEPT OF VULNERABILITY : A SYSTEMS APPROACH
Vidal, Ludovic-Alexandre; Marle, Franck; Bocquet, Jean-Claude // 2011
Since design projects evolve within complex environments, they must face more and more numerous, varied and interrelated risks. Therefore, traditional paradigms of project risk management must be ...
INDICATING THE CRITICALITY OF CHANGES DURING THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
Behncke, Florian Hans Georg; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
As technical changes account for a significant part of the efforts like cost and time in product development and result from failures, which mainly appear after the Start of Production (SOP), change ...
INFLUENCE OF DESIGN EVALUATIONS ON DECISION-MAKING AND FEEDBACK DURING CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT
Marini, Vinicius Kaster; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema; Restrepo, John // 2011
ow they influence feedback; and, how these matters could be improved in early design stages. A longitudinal, descriptive case study was carried out, following design alternatives generated over two ...
INFLUENCE OF THE TIME PERSPECTIVE ON NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SUCCESS INDICATORS
Moatari Kazerouni, Afrooz; Achiche, Sofiane; Hisarciklilar, Onur; Thomson, Vincent // 2011
Understanding the underlying reasons for new product development (NPD) success is central for effective NPD management. However, difficulties related to estimating to what extent the objectives are ...
INFORMATION BEHAVIOR IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN TEAMS
Ensici, Ayhan; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
A common challenge in business life is the need to compose multidisciplinary teams to foster efficiency and innovative thinking by using different expertise on a problem or project. The research area ...
INFORMATION MODELS USED TO MANAGE ENGINEERING CHANGE: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2005-2010
Ahmad, Naveed; Wynn, David C; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Engineering change is a significant part of any product development programme. These changes can arise at many points throughout the product life-cycle, resulting in rework which can ripple through ...
INGREDIENTS OF THE DESIGN PROCESS: GOING THROUGH EMOTIONAL PASSAGE
Shin, Cliff // 2011
Conventional design processes have been successful the past decades. As our society becomes faster and more complicated, so customers’ needs are becoming more complex. Discovering insights about ...
INITIAL CONDITIONS: THE STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF EFFECTIVE DESIGN TEAMS
Kress, Gregory; Schar, Mark // 2011
specially when measured by demographic factors. However, relatively little research has been done on the cognitive style of team members, or “team cognitive diversity.” Our research team is ...
INNOVATION THROUGH DESIGN FOR EMOTION
Guenand, Anne; Berdillon, Vincent // 2011
Innovation represents a key role in firm success. Though the literature provides much advices and methods, companies sometimes do not know how to proceed when they feel they have exhausted all ...
INSIDE A PSS DESIGN PROCESS: INSIGHTS THROUGH PROTOCOL ANALYSIS
Sakao, Tomohiko; Paulsson, Svante; Mizuyama, Hajime // 2011
Product/Service Systems (PSS) has been addressed as an interesting research target in the engineering design community. Yet, an understanding of PSS design processes is scarce. Motivated by this gap, ...
INTEGRAL DESIGN: TO COMBINE ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING FOR A SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
Zeiler, Wim // 2011
The traditional way of designing in the Building Industry has to change to meet the new demands for a sustainable built environment by society. In order to enhance team design in the most crucial ...
INTEGRAL DESIGNED DATABASE MORPHOLOGY FOR ACTIVE ROOFS
Zeiler, Wim // 2011
Lack of collaboration in design teams often results in a low mutual level of understanding about the design to produce. Especially the collaboration between designers and contractors is difficult ...
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.