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Philosophy, Strategy and Process for Connecting Engineering Design and Business Innovation
Linde, Hansjuergen; Herr, Gunther Hubertus // 2009
"Strengthening the Innovation Power" is one of the key challenges for gaining and maintaining leadership in modern industry. Nearly all companies would claim to strive for innovations, but ...
PIEp EDU: Education for Product Innovation
Grimheden, Martin // 2009
This paper presents results from the first two years of a large attempt at changing Swedish higher education - a system change toward synthesis, creativity, product innovation and entrepreneurship. ...
Planning Renewal of Product Platforms for Managing Technology Obsolescence of a Product Family
Kang, Changmuk; Hong, Yoo S. // 2009
In the rapidly changing world, technologies quickly become obsolete and a product should be rapidly innovated. Under the platform-based product development strategy, innovation of a product is ...
Pragmatic Design Rules for Selective Load Introduction in Structural Sheets
Niedermeier, Michael; Henne, Markus; Keller, David; Kress, Gerald; Stetter, Ralf // 2009
Good joint design is vital to the success of the product. Spot joining methods in particular cause critical stress concentrations in structures using composite materials. One way of avoiding these is ...
Preference-Oriented Form Design: Application to Cars’ Headlights
Petiot, Jean-François; Dagher, Antoine // 2009
The integration of customer preferences is nowadays a challenge in new product development. In this paper, we describe a method which integrates the customer preferences for the design of geometrical ...
Pressure and Trust in Competitive Engineering
Pulm, Udo; Stetter, Ralf // 2009
In competitive engineering the term "pressure" is used frequently. Design engineers often face time pressure or cost pressure. Pressure can be described as activities of individuals or ...
Prioritization of Product Requirements to Design for a Poka-Yoke Assembly - DFPYA
Estrada, Gabriela; Lloveras, Joaquim // 2009
During design process, in the clarification of the task stage, designers elaborate the product requirements list to establish the specification that product being developed must to comply with; even ...
Problem Formulation as a Discursive Design Activity
Hansen, Claus Thorp; Dorst, Kees; Andreasen, Mogens Myrup // 2009
In the design methodology literature, design is often described as a rational problem solving process. This approach has been very successful; it has lead to the creation of design process models, ...
Problems and Chances in Industrial Mechatronic Product Development
Stetter, Ralf; Pulm, Udo // 2009
This paper presents deep insights into two different mechatronic development processes in automotive industry. The problems and the solutions were analyzed in detail by means of retrospection of ...
Process Based Uncertainty Analysis – an Approach to Analyze Uncertainties Using a Process Model
Kloberdanz, Hermann; Engelhardt, Roland; Mathias, Johannes; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
Uncertainties in technical systems in the field of mechanical engineering occur in all processes throughout the entire life cycle of a product. In general these uncertainties are understood as ...
Product Development in Manufacturing SMES: Current State, Challenges and Relevant Supportive Techniques
Singh, Baljinder; Matthews, Jason; Mullineux, Glen; Medland, Tony // 2009
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) provide the backbone to the world's economy nowadays. These companies represent more than 90% of all the enterprises around the globe and are a major ...
Product Development in the Financial Crisis
Ringen, Geir; Holtskog, Halvor // 2009
In the automotive industry product development has been a key for competitive advantage. Such projects are done in a value chain setting with many suppliers. The point of departure is a strategic ...
Product Family Deployment Strategies under Different Types of Product Variety Design Circumstances
Fujita, Kikuo; Akai, Ryota; Amaya, Hirofumi // 2009
As product variety design has become an effective framework for mass customization, product platform and family design has been intensively studied in the last two decades. While their focuses have ...
Product Robustness as a Basis for the Improvement of Production Planning Processes - Key Factors in Early Design Phases
Helten, Katharina; Hellenbrand, David; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Given the growing change of market conditions worldwide production planning is facing new challenges. Different conditions in terms of operating resources, knowledge and quality ask for more flexible ...
Proposition of a Maturity Grid to Assess NPD Agility
Wieder, Charlotte; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Blanco, Eric // 2009
Since the mid 90's, the manufacturers need to renew continuously their product offers, to thrive in more competitive and turbulent markets. However, the implementation of continuous innovation ...
Prototyping to Learn: Characterizing Engineering Students’ Prototyping Activities and Prototypes
Lande, Micah; Leifer, Larry // 2009
Prototyping is an activity core to designing and engineering, though an activity that has traditionally been under examined. Through observations of students' prototyping activities during a ...
Prototyping: Facing Uncertainty through Small Wins
Gerber, Elizabeth // 2009
Design is a learning process in which new knowledge is constructed and used to shape the environment in ways that did not previously exist. Because design is about creating that which does not yet ...
Providing Value to a Business Using a Lightweight Design System to Support Knowledge Reuse by Designers
Reed, Nicholas J.; Scanlan, James P.; Wills, Gary B.; Halliday, Steven T. // 2009
This paper describes an alternative approach to knowledge based systems in engineering than traditional geometry or explicit knowledge focused systems. Past systems have supported product ...
Quantifying Designer’s Mental Stress in the Conceptual Design Process Using Kinesics Study
Tang, Yao; Zeng, Yong // 2009
In this paper, a new approach is proposed to evaluate the designer's mental stress during the conceptual design process. Combined with designer's sketches, the proposed approach is based on ...
Realization of Modern Educational Concepts in Engineering Design
Meerkamm, Harald; Stockinger, Andreas; Tremmel, Stephan; Wartzack, Sandro // 2009
This paper gives an overview of engineering design education at University .... Due to the transformation of the traditional German degree programs to an educational system based on two cycles ...
Redesign Method of Manufacturing Technologies Based on Environmental Performance Evaluation
Mishima, Nozomu; Kondoh, Shinsuke; Hotta, Yuji; Watari, Koji; Yasuoka, Masayoshi; Masui, Keijiro // 2009
To achieve sustainable society, many efforts in reducing environmental impact of manufacturing have been tried. However, for engineers, enhancing manufacturing quality has long been the most ...
Reducing and Perceiving Design Fixation: Initial Results from an NSF-Sponsored Workshop
Linsey, Julie; Tseng, Ian; Fu, Katherine; Cagan, Jonathan; Wood, Kristin // 2009
This study evaluated the effects of design fixation in a group of engineering design faculty, and also provides evidence for approaches to overcome design fixation. Three conditions were compared, a ...
Reducing Lead Time in Cutting Tool Development By Implementing Blitz QFD
Bylund, Nicklas; Wolf, Mathias; Mazur, Glen // 2009
A cutting tool producer aims to reduce the lead time from finding customer needs to achieving peak sales. There are many approaches to improving a company's new product development process in ...
Repacking Design Theory in Green
Nay, Eric Matthew // 2009
Rethinking "design thinking" as a curricular exercise takes on extra cache as the Ontario College of Art & Design rebrands and repositions itself within the landscape of art and design ...
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.