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Synergy between Engineering and Architectural Design
Zeiler, Wim; Savanovic, Perica // 2009
Design involves multi-disciplinary design teams to support this highly complex process. A supportive design approach is developed: Integral Design. This design process approach results in ...
Systematic Guidance for How to Integrate a Strategic Sustainability Perspective in Core Business Decision Systems
França, César Levy; Hallstedt, Sophie; Broman, Göran // 2009
Sustainability integration in core business and product development has been a challenge, even if many supporting methods, tools and concepts are available today. However, these are mainly focusing ...
Systematic identification of representative solutions to support the concept selection phase
Hellenbrand, David; Kain, Andreas; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
In the concept selection phase a high number of solutions has to be reduced to one single overall concept. The challenge of this step is to handle the resulting complexity and to ensure that a best ...
Systematic Selection of Appropriate Methods in Quality Management
Watty, Robert; Binz, Hansgeorg; Enriquez-Geppert, Joshua // 2009
A growing number and quality of new products on worldwide markets continuously challenge companies to maintain or expand their market shares. The acceptable time to market decreases and forces ...
Tangible Business Process Modeling
Edelman, Jonathan Antonio; Grosskopf, Alexander; Weske, Mathias; Leifer, Larry // 2009
This paper examines preliminary work applying contemporary design theory and methodology research concepts to Business Process Modeling (BPM). BPM practitioners have expressed difficulty in sharing ...
Teaching Ethics in Design: A Review of Current Practice
Lofthouse, Vicky; Lilley, Debra // 2009
This paper reflects on the findings from a benchmarking study which investigated current approaches for teaching ethics to designers and engineers. The research has been carried out as part of a one ...
Telling Design Stories: The Result or the Entrepreneuring Investigation
Karanian, Barbara A.; Kress, Gregory L.; Sadler, Joel // 2009
Understanding the parallel elements between the artistic desire that drives the design process and how telling stories drives new design elements is the focus for this preliminary investigation. Two ...
The Challenges Facing Ethnographic Design Research: A Proposed Methodological Solution
Cash, Philip James; Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Stephen // 2009
Central to improving and maintaining high levels of performance in emerging ethnographic design research is a fundamental requirement to address some of the problems associated with the subject. In ...
The Concept of Product Properties and its Value for Research and Practice in Design
Birkhofer, Herbert; Wäldele, Martin // 2009
Design science has produced a lot of models, definitions, and terms, which may be highly useful for design research as well as design practice. Still this body of knowledge and insights is often ...
The Flexible Meaning of Function in Engineering
Vermaas, Pieter E. // 2009
In this paper I explain the co-existence of different approaches towards understanding functions. First I argue that full descriptions of technical devices contain five key concepts: structure, ...
The Genesis of a Comprehensive Design Thinking Solution
Böckmann, Oliver; Noweski, Christine; Meinel, Christoph // 2009
In this paper we address principles of the design thinking methodology and their value to design projects. We do this by describing the challenge, progress and results of a use case project for a ...
The Impact of Virtual Environments on Humans Collaboration in Product Design
Mengoni, Maura; Peruzzini, Margherita; Germani, Michele // 2009
Virtual Reality (VR) has quickly evolved over the last years in terms of technological and applicative dimensions. Human-Computer Interaction is particularly meaningful in the design activities ...
The Iterative Nature of Medical Device Design
Shluzas, Lauren A.; Pietzsch, Jan B.; Paté-Cornell, M. Elisabeth; Yock, Paul G.; Linehan, John H. // 2009
A one-year study, sponsored by The Institute for Health Technology Studies, was conducted by a team of Stanford University researchers to develop a linear model of the medical device development ...
The Main Mystifications Ingrained in Engineering Design
Sedenkov, Vladimir Michailovich // 2009
Amazing phenomenon of engineering design is that it manipulates with non-existent and yet to be called into being entities in the same way as with real objects (products and processes). Thus a ...
The Management of Digital Sketches through PLM solutions
Huet, Greg; McAlpine, Hamish; Camarero, Ricardo; Culley, Stephen J.; Leblanc, Tatjana; Fortin, Clement // 2009
To manufacture successful products, companies are reliant on an efficient information and knowledge backbone. Within this context, this paper reports a preliminary investigation into the management ...
The Modeling of the Interaction of the Human Hand with Products
Medland, Anthony John; Matthews, Jason // 2009
Many products are designed to be hand operated in use. These extend from industrial machine tools to domestic appliances. In these the designer has to rely upon experience and ergonomic guidelines to ...
The need for function platforms in engineer-to-order industries
Alblas, Alex; Wortmann, Hans // 2009
Many industries base their innovations on product platforms. Platforms have predefined modularity with standardized interfaces. However, product platforms provide significant challenges to ...
The P3 Platform: An Approach and Software System for Developing Diagrammatic Model-Based Methods in Design Research
Wynn, David C.; Nair, Seena M. T.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Many issues in design and design management have been explored by building models which capture the relationships between different aspects of the problem at hand. These models require computer ...
The Pedagogy of Pre-Brief Activities for Industrial Design Undergraduates Operating at the ‘Fuzzy Front End’ of New Product Development
Wormald, Paul William // 2009
The processes of strategic innovation embedded into the so-called 'fuzzy front end' of new product development are successfully employed by global corporations. This paper describes ...
The Potential of Creativity Metrics for Mechanical Engineering Concept Design
Oman, Sarah; Tumer, Irem Y. // 2009
This paper endeavors to describe how creativity factors into engineering demand for creative products in all domains has increased dramatically in the last decade, warranting the need for a method to ...
The Power of Prototypes in Foresight Engineering
Carleton, Tamara; Cockayne, William // 2009
Prototyping has long been a popular method in engineering and design practice. The continued use of physical prototyping is based on its strength in helping teams to make ideas tangible, iterate ...
The Process of Engineering Design: A Comparison of three Representations
Atman, Cynthia J.; Deibel, Katherine; Borgford-Parnell, Jim // 2009
Graphic representations that show how the design process changes over the course of solving a problem are powerful tools for researchers. This paper presents three such representations - timelines, ...
The Processnavigator – Flexible Process Execution for Product Development Projects
Faerber, Matthias; Meerkamm, Stephanie; Jablonski, Stefan // 2009
The development of new, innovative products is a company's fundament to achieve success on the long term. Processes have been successful to structure development processes, however no practical ...
The Product Development Process Roadblock that is Restricting the Widespread Adoption of Design for Sustainability
Lee-Mortimer, Andrew; Short, Tim // 2009
There is now growing pressure on manufacturers from all sectors, and of all sizes, to adopt Design for Sustainability (DfS). The aim of DfS is ensure that both the environmental impact, and any wider ...
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.