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Application of dynamic value-attribute modeling in a product family
Withanage, Chathura; Moon, Seung Ki; Park, Taezoon; Duc, Truong Ton Hien // 2013
Product families are used as a solution to cater the needs of diversified user groups, while minimizing the usage of resources. However, today's design decision makers require additional capabilities ...
Applying models of help desk conversations to the design of a customer sales support interface
Ruecker, Stan; Derksen, Gerry; Pollari, Ted; Michura, Piotr; Geppert, Amanda; Braun, Lauren; Green, Kwame; Pedraça, Samia; Audette, Scott // 2013
In this paper, we describe a case study using 3D conversational modeling as an approach to the design of an online interactive system. The system was intended to help customers select electric motors ...
Approaches for mapping between preferential probabilities and relative design preference ratings
Ji, Haifeng; Honda, Tomonori; Yang, Maria C. // 2013
Assigning preferences to a set of design choices is an important activity in the design process. Previous research proposed a probabilistic approach to extracting preference information from ...
Architecting systems for optimal lifetime adaptability
Engel, Avner; Reich, Yoram // 2013
System architecture decisions such as the assignment of components to modules can have a large impact on the system’s lifetime adaptability and cost. We broaden systems architecting theory by ...
Are companies ready for the revolution in design â Modelling maturity for virtual prototyping
Aromaa, Susanna; Leino, Simo-Pekka; Viitaniemi, Juhani // 2013
Companies are meeting growing demands for readiness to respond rapidly to changes from the outside world. Companies actively manage and develop their competences by applying new technologies and ...
Assessing design research quality: Investigating verification and validation criteria
Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Blanco, Eric; Summers, Joshua David // 2013
Engineering design research spans many disparate approaches to study, from simulation to case studies. A challenge for the community is to ensure and evaluate the research quality, taking into ...
Assessment of information maturity during design, operation and maintenance stages within BIM use environment
ZOU, Raymond Rui; TANG, Llewellyn C.M; GOH, Mey // 2013
In construction, there is a prevalence of application of BIM (Building Information Modelling) involving in the processes and activities to contribute to a better output of lean production within ...
Assumptions for incremental innovations in SMEs
Watty, Robert // 2013
Innovation is an precondition for the success of companies in today’s markets to differentiate from their competitors. Particularly ‘radical’ innovations are addressed in numerous research ...
Benchmarking bio-inspired designs with brainstorming in terms of novelty of design outcomes
Keshwani, Sonal; Lenau, Torben Anker; Kristensen, Saeema Ahmed; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2013
With the increasing demand of innovative products in the market, there is a need for effective creativity approaches that will support development of creative design outcomes. Most researchers agree ...
Beyond frames: A formal human-compatible representation of ideas in design using non-genetic ad-hoc and volatile class memberships and corresponding architecture for idea operators
Spitas, Christos // 2013
This paper proposes a formal human-compatible representation of ideas in design using ad-hoc and volatile class memberships and corresponding architecture for idea operators. The proposed theory ...
Beyond models and decisions: Situating design through generative functions
Hatchuel, Armand; Reich, Yoram; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoit; Kazakçi, Akin // 2013
This paper aims to situate Design by comparison to scientific modeling and optimal Decision. We introduce “generative functions” characterizing each of these activities. We formulate inputs, outputs ...
Bio-inspired ideation: Lessons from teaching design to engineering students
Farel, Romain; Yannou, Bernard // 2013
Biologically inspired design uses inspiration of natural systems to develop solutions for design and engineering problems. We experienced teaching bioinspired method to engineers in the context of ...
Bringing objectivity to requirements – Using property networks for a more complete requirement acquisition
Röder, Benjamin; Gläßer, Tim; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2013
The acquisition of requirements is a crucial phase during the product development process. The created list of requirements determines costs, necessary time and iterative steps needed during the ...
Building agile design teams
Vignoli, Matteo; Ferioli, Gabriele; Steinert, Martin // 2013
One of the most common problem in many organizations that have reached considerable dimension and complexity is the lack of communication and collaboration between the different departments. When ...
Business model mining: Analyzing a firm’s business model with text mining of annual report
Lee, Jihwan; Hong, Yoo S. // 2013
As the business model is receiving considerable attention these days, the ability to collect business model related information has become essential requirement for a company. The annual report is ...
Case study: Evidence of prototyping roles in conceptual design
Hess, Tim; Summers, Joshua David // 2013
The goal of this research is to investigate prototype use in conceptual design. In order to begin this line of study, we look first to current practices in industry. A case study involving two ...
CDS platform: A platform for multi-physics computational design synthesis
Hooshmand, Amir; Schlaich, Marc; Belaus, Liliya; Campbell, Matthew // 2013
An important obstacle in the development of computational synthesis tools in engineering design is the difficulty in integrating the generation process with efficient simulation packages for ...
Characterizing and comparing service innovation in manufacturing firms and service organizations
Rexfelt, Oskar; Almefelt, Lars; Malmqvist, Johan Lars // 2013
One of the major trends within manufacturing industries is initiatives to expand service and aftermarket businesses. Goods and services are integrated in total solutions, and the customers pay for ...
Characterizing collaboration through online interactions within R&D communities.
Fraslin, Marie; Blanco, Eric // 2013
In global organisation, collaboration within distributed team is a crucial issue. Many companies are organizing communities of practice to improve experience sharing. These communities are mediated ...
Clarification of sustainability consequences of manufacturing processes in conceptual design
Hallstedt, Sophie; Isaksson, Ola // 2013
In the conceptual design of aircraft jet engine components, not only the product architecture and dimensions are set but the associate manufacturing processes are also defined. From a design decision ...
Cloud-based design and manufacturing systems: A social network analysis
Wu, Dazhong; Schaefer, Dirk; Rosen, David W. // 2013
A Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM) System refers to an information and communication technology (ICT) system that facilitates design and manufacturing knowledge sharing between actors ...
Co-evolution of design tactics and CSCWD systems: Methodological circulation and the TATIN-PIC platform
Guerra, Andrea Luigi; Gidel, Thierry; Kendira, Atman; Vezzetti, Enrico; Jones, Alistair // 2013
This paper proposes a design strategy and a Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD) system, which have co-evolved together to meet the goal of improving the Preliminary Design Process ...
Co-ordinated engineering: Design innovation through operational collaboration
Vuletic, Tijana; Duffy, Alex; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Wang, Wenjuan // 2013
Operational Collaboration Model (OCM) has been developed to provide net based, location and discipline independent solution for the exchange of design technology, service and information. Its ...
Collaborative product design and development for commercialization of invention
Tan, James Ah-Kat // 2013
In this paper, the framework and process of product design and development and commercialization of an invention are discussed. A method developed by the author, the 3P Approach (i.e. ...
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.