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Checklists as Tools for Reflective Practice for Designers
Geis, Christian; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
Methodical designing nowadays is an important topic when developing competitive and successful products. But to work methodically means to overcome many obstacles and problems. With reflective ...
Co-Evolution of Products & Communities in Mass Collaborative Product Development: a Computational Exploration
Panchal, Jitesh // 2009
Mass collaborative product development (MCPD) refers to a paradigm where large numbers of people collaborate in the form of communities to develop products and services. The evolution of products ...
Collaboration Support System for Analyzing Individual Differences Based on Designers’ Idea Evaluation
Kobayashi, Masakazu; Higashi, Masatake // 2009
In our previous research, we focused on the creative aspects of collaboration and proposed an analytical method of ideas created by designers during collaborative design projects. This method ...
Collaborative Product Development: How to Make the "Buy Design" Decision?
Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Calvi, Richard; Cheriti, Sandra // 2009
This article focuses on the design or buy design decision process and aims at proposing a structured approach enabling to support the decision-making within a new product development (NPD) project ...
Communication and Design Process Planning: Initial Insights from Literature and Industry Interviews
De Lessio, Mark Philip; Wynn, David C.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
There is a complementary and bi-directional relationship between communication among design process participants and the planning activity in design. However, while often implied, this relationship ...
Comparative Study of Environmental Evaluation Assessment Using Exergetic LCA Implemented in Existing Software and a Novel Exergetic Approach during the Early Design Phase
Medyna, Galina; Coatanéa, Eric; Millet, Dominique // 2009
Current environmental evaluation analysis methods such as LCA require detailed information about the studied product or process. This leads to uncertain or wrong results when applied during the early ...
Comparing the information content of formal and informal design documents: Lessons for more complete design records
McAlpine, Hamish Chales; Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Stephen // 2009
Even the most routine engineering design projects generate large volumes of formal and informal information by virtue of an ever-increasing variety of tools and systems. During the design process, ...
Competitive Advantage Through Packaging Design? Propositions for Supply Chain Effectiveness and Efficiency
Olander-Roese, Malin; Nilsson, Fredrik // 2009
Packaging is becoming increasingly important from a marketing as well as logistics perspective, particularly for actors in consumer product supply chains. However, the role of packaging in creating ...
Computer Aided Size Range Development - Data Mining vs. Optimization
Kipp, Thomas; Krause, Dieter // 2009
Due to the growing number of demanded product variants, product family design gets more and more in the focus of research. Beside the development of advantageous product family structures the ...
Conceptual Design of Modularized Advanced Mechatronic Systems
Gausemeier, Jürgen; Steffen, Daniel; Donoth, Jörg; Kahl, Sascha // 2009
Future mechatronic systems will have inherent partial intelligence. We call these systems "self-optimizing" systems. Their functionality leads to increased complexity of their development. ...
Conceptualization of biomimetic sensors through functional representation of natural sensing solutions
Stroble, Jacquelyn Kay; McAdams, Daniel A.; Stone, Robert B. // 2009
Classification of natural systems by engineering terms found in the Functional Basis, a well-defined modeling lexicon, links the ingenuity of the natural world to the engineering domain. Functional ...
Contact and Channel Modeling to Support Early Design of Technical Systems
Albers, Albert; Braun, Andreas; Clarkson, P. John; Enkler, Hans-Georg; Wynn, David C. // 2009
The early design of mechanical systems is critical because it constrains options later in the design process. In this early stage of the design process, designers must consider customer requirements, ...
Coordinating Design Decisions for Product, Supply Chain, and Reverse Supply Chain
El korchi, Akram; Millet, Dominique; Colin, Jacques // 2009
New environmental regulations have extended the producer's responsibility for a product to the post-consumer stage. Producers are often responsible for the collection and recovery of their ...
Coping with Multidisciplinary Product Development - a Process Model Approach
Krehmer, Hartmut; Eckstein, Raiko; Lauer, Wolfgang; Roelofsen, Julia; Stöber, Christina; Troll, Alexander; Weber, Nadine; Zapf, Jochen // 2009
The aim of this contribution is to introduce a novel process model developed by the research alliance FORFLOW. We claim that our FORFLOW-process model is rather detailed but yet variable and ...
Creating Brand-Innovation Synergy: Towards a Practical Method of Using Brands in the New Product Development Process
Keus, Martyn; Smulders, Frido; Roscam Abbing, Erik; Buijs, Jan // 2009
Brands are more than logos that are "stuck on" products after they have been developed. Before new product concepts are envisioned, brands exist - both in the minds of consumers, and in the ...
Creative Environments for Innovative Learning Processes
Eriksson, Yvonne; Jerregård, Helena // 2009
Visual arte facts, such as toys, pictures in schoolbooks and advertisements affect children emotionally, and they are crucial as role model for their identity. Identity and self-confidence is vital ...
Creativity Theories and Scientific Discovery: A Study of C-K Theory and Infused Design
Shai, Offer; Reich, Yoram; Hatchuel, Armand; Subrahmanian, Eswaran // 2009
Creativity is central to human activity and is a powerful force in personal and organizational success. Approaches to supporting creativity are diverse and numerous. The only way to understand the ...
Cross-Disciplinary Practice in Engineering Contexts
Adams, Robin S. // 2009
Engineering design is inherently cross-disciplinary. Many complex design problems facing society today require cross-disciplinary approaches that integrate diverse perspectives into a collective ...
Cultural Influences on Design Processes - an Empirical Study
Gautam, Vivek; Blessing, Lucienne // 2009
Product development increasingly involves designers with different cultural backgrounds. This paper describes an investigation into the effects of these different backgrounds on the design process. ...
Customer Perception of Vehicle Dynamics and its Transfer to Technical Characteristics
Hepperle, Clemens; Deubzer, Frank; Wiedemann, Patrick; Lindemann, Udo; Liebl, Johannes; Hallmannsegger, Michael; Hübner, Walter // 2009
Vehicle dynamics are well described by technical parameters in existing literature. But in order to fulfill customer requirements, there is a need to take further perspectives on vehicle dynamics ...
Decentralized Optimal Design using the Lagrangian Relaxation Approach
Li, Simon // 2009
To minimize the coordination efforts among design teams and expedite the design process via parallel workflow, this paper proposes a framework of decentralized optimal design. The framework consists ...
Decision Support for the Selection of Anti-Counterfeiting Measures Based on Modeling Damage Avoiding Functions
Petermann, Markus Alexander; Meiwald, Thomas; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Manufacturers are confronted with a rising number of counterfeits and imitations of their original products, causing both financial and brand damages most of them are not willing to accept. There are ...
Decision-Focused Product Development Process Improvements
Eriksson, Joakim; Brannemo, Anette // 2009
Currently, there is little or no methodology or methods available to "process improvers" in product development which focus on decision-making fundamentals in order to improve the ...
Decision-Focused Resource Modeling for Design Decision Support
Liu, Shaofeng; Duffy, Alex H. B.; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Boyle, Iain M.; Wang, Wenjuan; Mohamed, Khaled // 2009
Resource management including resource allocation, levelling, configuration and monitoring has been recognised as critical to design decision making. It has received increasing research interests in ...
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.