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IMPROVING DESIGN METHODOLOGY: SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION OF PRINCIPLE SYNTHESIS
Katzwinkel, Tim; Heller, Jan Erik; Schmid, Alexander; Schmidt, Walter; Löwer, Manuel; Feldhusen, Jörg // 2015
Developing new products based on a systematic approach is essential for the entrepreneurial success of technology companies. Through functional analysis and successive synthesis of a product ...
IMPROVING GENERATIVE GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION THROUGH NETWORK ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES
Königseder, Corinna; Stanković, Tino; Shea, Kristina // 2015
Design grammars have been successfully applied in numerous engineering disciplines, however, the lack of support for grammar development is seen as one of the major drawbacks of grammatical ...
IMPROVING ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESSES WITH MBSE
Westermann, Thorsten; Anacker, Harald; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2015
Highly customized products dominate in the mechanical engineering industry. Products like machine tools, food processing or packaging machines are characterized by a high complexity, a low quantity ...
IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS IN CLIENTS/SUPPLIERS CO-DESIGN PROCESS
Michelin, Fabien; Reyes, Tatiana; Vallet, Flore; Eynard, Benoît; Duong, Viet-Long // 2015
The integration of the environmental criteria in clients/suppliers co-design process becoMES an important issue owing to the growing influence of suppliers design choices on the clients products. ...
IMPROVING WELLBEING FOR VICTIMS OF CRIME
Kaldor, Lucy Joanna; Watson, Rodger // 2015
Being the victim of a crime constitutes a profound and lasting trauma for individuals and their communities. Depending on the circumstances of their victimisation, crime victims have little choice ...
INCLUSIVE DESIGN; FROM PHYSICAL TO PSYCHOSOCIAL - A LITERATURE ANALYSIS TOWARD A DEFINITION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL DIMENSIONS IN DESIGN
Lim, Yonghun; Dr. Nickpour, Farnaz // 2015
With the dual demographics of an aging population and more people living with disabilities, inclusive design has been recognised as a driving force for accessibility and social equality in design of ...
INDEX-BASED METRICS FOR THE EVALUATION OF EFFECTS OF CUSTOM PARTS ON THE STANDARDIZATION OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
Sinigalias, Pavlos Christoforos; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2015
The number and the attributes of custom parts affect significantly the standardization level of mechanical systems and determine their functional characteristics and their value. In the present ...
INDICATORS AND DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR DIRECT PART PRODUCTION BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Leutenecker, Bastian; Klahn, Christoph; Meboldt, Mirko // 2015
Additive manufacturing (AM), a layer based material addition technology to create three-dimensional objects directly from a 3D CAD model with little restrictions regarding the shape of the object. ...
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF A MECHATRONIC FRAMEWORK
Torry-Smith, Jonas Mørkeberg; Mortensen, Niels Henrik; Ploug, Ole; Achiche, Sofiane // 2015
Design of mechatronics is greatly challenging due to its multi-disciplinary nature. On one hand companies need to facilitate integration between engineering domains while they on the other hand need ...
INFLUENCE OF DESIGN-FOR-X GUIDELINES ON THE MATCHING BETWEEN THE PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE AND SUPPLY NETWORK
Behncke, Florian G. H.; Thimet, Paula; Barton, Benjamin; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
Emerging global markets and fierce competition lead manufacturing firms to a transfer a large share of their value creation in development and production to suppliers that are arranged in a supply ...
INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE FROM BIOLOGY ON THE VARIETY OF TECHNICAL SOLUTION IDEAS
Hashemi Farzaneh, Helena; Helms, Katharina; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
Bio-inspired design aims at the development of novel, creative solutions with the potential for innovative technical products. It implies the use of different information sources, such as research ...
INFLUENCE OF INFORMATION COLLECTION STRATEGY IN PROBLEM FORMULATION ON DESIGN CREATIVITY THROUGH MENTAL STRESS: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS
Wang, Xiaoying; Nguyen, Thanh An; Zeng, Yong // 2015
Problem formulation is an important process in design. A right solution comes from a right problem statement; creative solution may come from a creative problem statement. In this paper, three ...
INNOVATION AMBIDEXTERITY IN MEDIUM SIZE ENTERPRISES
Lavayssière, Pierre; Blanco, Eric; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Chévrier, Pierre // 2015
The ability to explore new horizons while exploiting current capabilities is necessary for enterprises to attain long-term success. The theory of organizational ambidexterity studies the paradoxical ...
INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: PERCEPTIONS OF EXPERTS
Telenko, Cassandra; Wood, Kristin // 2015
Innovation and creativity research assists and enables designers to break the mold of everyday, expected designs and discover the delightful, but unexpected, meaning-rich, and radical through novel ...
INSPIRATIONAL DESIGN BRIEFING PERFORMANCE
Petersen, Søren Ingomar; Joo, Jaewoo; Takahashi, Shelley // 2015
Design briefs provide the legal as well as inspirational basis for a design project’s direction, design and development. The content of briefs has adapted to changing management practices, however, ...
INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR EFFICIENT TOLERANCE OPTIMIZATION ON SHEET METAL PARTS
Litwa, Frank; Gottwald, Martin; Vielhaber, Michael // 2015
The focus of this paper is on pointing out the opportunities of a deeper interlinking of dimensional management into product-/ and production-development environment. Today, these opportunities are ...
INTEGRATED DESIGN OF DYNAMIC SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Allison, James T.; Herber, Daniel R.; Deshmukh, Anand P. // 2015
Recent advancements in the development and investigation of integrated methods for the design of dynamic engineering systems have made possible the achievement of new levels of system performance and ...
INTEGRATED FUNCTION MODELLING: COMPARING THE IFM FRAMEWORK WITH SYSML
Eisenbart, Boris; Mandel, Constantin; Gericke, Kilian; Blessing, Lucienne // 2015
This paper presents a comparison between the Integrated Function Modelling framework and SysML with the aim of deriving specific potentials for cross-fertilisation and further improvement regarding ...
INTEGRATED PRODUCT AND PROCESS MODELS: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK AND REVIEW
Eckert, Claudia; Albers, Albert; Bursac, Nikola; Chen, Hilario Xin; Clarkson, P. John; Gericke, Kilian; Gladysz, Bartosz; Maier, Jakob F.; Rachenkova, Galina; Shapiro, Daniel; Wynn, David // 2015
While product models and process models have a long standing transiting, there are few models that integrate the two type of models. Those that exist are research systems, which even if validated in ...
INTEGRATED VALUE ENGINEERING - FRAMEWORK FOR THE APPLICATION OF METHODS FOR VISUALIZATION OF INFORMATION
Sadi, Tarek; Behncke, Florian G. H.; Maisenbacher, Sebastian; Kremer, Simon // 2015
Technical products are becoming more demanding in terms of their requirements for functionality to the customer and price. Approaches of cost management companies in increasing the customer value of ...
INTEGRATING THE ABILITY FOR TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION IN A COMMERCIAL CAD-SYSTEM
Schmelcher, Johannes; Stetter, Ralf; Till, Markus // 2015
An promising approach in optimizing parts with respect to their weight and simultaneously preserve their functionality, is designing parts in a way, where material is only present in regions, which ...
INTEGRATION OF END-USER NEEDS INTO BUILDING DESIGN PROJECTS: USE OF BOUNDARY OBJECTS TO OVERCOME PARTICIPATORY DESIGN CHALLENGES
Latortue, Xavier; Minel, Stéphanie; Pompidou, Stéphane; Perry, Nicolas // 2015
Participatory design is perceived as a way of improvement in both manufactured and building design. Nonetheless high level of user involvement has its limits. Part of the difficulties of the ...
INTEGRATION OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES INTO EARLY PHASES OF PRODUCT DESIGN - A CASE STUDY
Kett, Susan Gretchen; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Universal design (UD) is a strategy for designing societal and individual living environments. We outline how its generic guidelines need more concretization to be applicable to product development ...
INTEGRATION OF USER KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE OF INTEGRATED PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS – AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELEVANCE FOR PSS DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Schmidt, Danilo Marcello; Preißner, Stephanie; Hermosillo Martínez, José Alonso; Quiter, Michael; Moertl, Markus; Raasch, Christina // 2015
Integration of user knowledge in corporate innovation processes enhances firm innovation performance. Despite the relevance of the topic, research on when to integrate user knowledge into corporate ...
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.