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TOWARDS ASSESSING THE VALUE OF AEROSPACE COMPONENTS: A CONCEPTUAL SCENARIO
Bertoni, Marco; Bertoni, Alessandro; Johansson, Christian // 2011
The development of complex products, characterized by long lifecycles and deep supply chains, requires enhanced capabilities to assess, in an early design stage, the value of a solution not merely ...
UMEA - A FOLLOW UP TO ANALYSE UNCERTAINTIES IN TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
Engelhardt, Roland; Wiebel, Marion; Eifler, Tobias; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
In mechanical engineering uncertainties occur during the entire life cycle of a product. These uncertainties are defined as deviations from process and product properties. This makes the development ...
UNDERSTANDING ENGINEERING SYSTEMS THROUGH THE ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE GENOME: STRUCTURAL GENES OF SYSTEMS TOPOLOGIES
Shai, Offer; Reich, Yoram // 2011
The design of contemporary products requires knowledge from diverse disciplines. Presently, there is very little common denominator among engineering disciplines. This state of affairs is hurting ...
UNDERSTANDING FIXATION: A STUDY ON THE ROLE OF EXPERTISE
Viswanathan, Vimal; Linsey, Julie // 2011
Engineering idea generation plays a vital role in developing new products. Recent research has focused on methods to make designers more innovative and creative. Design fixation imposes a major ...
UNDERSTANDING STYLING ACTIVITY OF AUTOMOTIVE DESIGNERS: A STUDY OF MANUAL INTERPOLATIVE MORPHING THROUGH FREEHAND SKETCHING
Zainal Abidin, Shahriman Bin; Warell, Anders; Liem, Andre // 2011
Automated morphing techniques have been proposed as a design support tool to generate novel shapes which lie between two or more polar reference images. The purpose of these techniques, employed in ...
UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXTS OF THE FRONT END OF DESIGN
Harrison, Thomas; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2011
What do we really know about design experience during the front end of design and which personality traits assist the designer? This paper describes empirical research currently taking place into ...
UNDERSTANDING THE WORLDS OF DESIGN AND ENGINEERING – AN APPRAISAL OF MODELS
Gudem, Martin; Boks, Casper; Welo, Torgeir // 2011
Using product innovation models as reference, this study presents barriers preventing integration between the worlds of product design and engineering. Models illustrating workflow within both ...
UNIVERSAL DESIGN AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT: TACTILE PRODUCTS FOR HERITAGE ACCESS
Gual, Jaume; Puyuelo, Marina; Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
This article presents a pilot study carried out in the city of Barcelona on assistive resources applied to an itinerary of possible interest to visually impaired people. The objective of this study ...
USAGE CONTEXT-BASED CHOICE MODELING FOR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES
He, Lin; Chen, Wei // 2011
Usage Context-Based Design (UCBD) has become an area of growing interest in engineering design research, due to the increasingly important role usage context plays in customers’ choices. In this ...
USE OF CONSTRAINTS IN THE EARLY STAGES OF DESIGN
Mullineux, Glen // 2011
At the very early stages of original design work, the aspects of concept, scheming and analysis tend to merge. It is only as the designer’s understanding of the design task increases that these ...
USER CENTERED DESIGN IN THE WILD
Stompff, Guido; Henze, Lilian; Jong, Fred de; Vliembergen, Eddy van; Stappers, Pieter Jan; Smulders, Frido; Buijs, Jan // 2011
Modern hi-tech product development is becoming increasingly complex, posing difficulties for achieving technically sound products, that also address the user needs. User Centered Design (UCD) ...
USING SIMULATION TO SUPPORT PROCESS INTEGRATION AND AUTOMATION OF THE EARLY STAGES OF AEROSPACE DESIGN
Kerley, Warren Peter; Armstrong, Gareth; Pepe, Carla; Moss, Michael A; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) software tools for design representation, analysis and optimization play a central role in aerospace engineering. Increasingly these tools are being integrated to ...
USING VIRTUAL REALITY IN DESIGNING THE ASSEMBLY PROCESS OF A CAR
Becker, Ilse; Toivonen, Ville; Leino, Simo-Pekka // 2011
This paper presents a study of a company that is testing virtual reality (VR) tools in designing the assembly process of a new car model. This is the first time in the company’s 40-year history that ...
VIRTUALISATION OF PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT/ DESIGN – SEEN FROM DESIGN THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
Weber, Christian; Husung, Stephan // 2011
Over the last decade terms like “Virtual Prototyping”, “Virtual Engineering”, “Virtual Product Development” and “Virtual Reality” have been propagated. These terms mostly come from other disciplines ...
VISUALISING ERGONOMICS DATA FOR DESIGN
Dong, Hua; Pei, Eujin; Chen, Hongyan; Macredie, Robert // 2011
Existing ergonomics data are not effectively used by designers; this is mainly because the data are not presented in a designer-friendly format. In order to help designers make better use of ...
WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESSES?
Maier, Anja M.; Störrle, Harald // 2011
This paper studies the characteristic properties of Engineering Design (ED) processes from a process modeling perspective. In a first step, we extracted nine characteristics of engineering design ...
WHEN SENSEMAKING MEETS RESOURCE ALLOCATION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF AMBIGUOUS IDEAS IN PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Gutiérrez, Ernesto // 2011
Research in Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has proposed tools and models for evaluating, selecting and prioritizing ideas and projects in product development. However, empirical evidence ...
WHICH GUIDELINE IS MOST RELEVANT? INTRODUCTION OF A PRAGMATIC DESIGN FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY TOOL
Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
Energy efficiency is a topic of high importance in companies nowadays. As a knowledge deficit exists concerning the design of energy efficient products there is a significant need for comprehensive ...
"Soft" Problems with Consumer Electronics and the Influence of User Characteristics
Kim, Chajoong; Christiaans, Henri H. C. M. // 2009
The paper reports a study into the complaints of consumers about "soft" problems they have experienced using new electronic household products. These problems cannot be traced back to a ...
A Case Study of Affordance and Affordance Feature Identification through User Observation
Kim, Yong Se; Kim, Min Kyoung; Jeong, Ji Yun; Park, Jin A // 2009
This paper investigates the relationships between affordances and affordance features, which are very critical to conveniently allow human activities or behaviors under given tasks. Affordance ...
A Case Study of Idea Work in the Early Phases of Product Development
Gish, Liv; Clausen, Christian; Hansen, Claus Thorp // 2009
Focus in this paper is on the early innovation activities, in particular idea work. Based on a case study from industrial practice on the development of a new circulator (the Alpha Pro circulator) we ...
A Decision Support System Designed for Personalized Maintenance Recommendation Based on Proactive Maintenance
Huang, Ying; Gardoni, Mickaël; Coulibaly, Amadou // 2009
Product manuals play a more and more important role in improving customer satisfaction. Many kinds of product manuals are developed to support the product utilization during the life of the product. ...
A Descriptive Model of the Current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Development Process
Sagoo, Jeevan; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Alcock, Jeffrey // 2009
This paper uses the IDEFØ process modelling technique to present an "As-Is" model for the current process of developing generic MEMS devices, this new model is based on information from ...
A Design Methodology to Overcome Local Effects in Joining Sandwich Materials
Krishnamoorthy, Sivakumara Kannappan; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2009
This paper proposes a design methodology which emphasizes the usage of CAE tools to overcome local effects in joining sandwich materials at an early stage of the product development. Several case ...
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.