Jones, Darren Anthony; Eckert, Claudia Margot; Gericke, Kilian // 2018
This paper categorises and describes the design stages, stakeholders and decision processes of an overcapacity boiler upgrade that came about from the excessive use of design margins. Using a ...
Schork, Stefan; Kirchner, Eckhard // 2018
Prototyping in general is a widely used procedure within the product development process. Prototypes help to understand different and complex phenomena, support the communication between developers ...
Mattioli, Francesca; Ferraris, Silvia Deborah; Ferraro, Venere // 2018
The authors, who are researchers and teachers in the field of Design and Engineering, have developed an area of study that deals with the role of biases in heterogeneous teams’ dynamics. In ...
Kim, Euiyoung; Jensen, Matilde Bisballe; Poreh, Danielle; Agogino, Alice M. // 2018
As more mobile sensing devices are introduced in the market, the risks associated with cybersecurity increase. Our research goal is to shed light on novice designers’ awareness to these risks with a ...
Lyche, Wenche; Berg, Arild; Andreassen, Kristin // 2018
There is a growing need in contemporary society to understand new and emerging relationships between technology and creativity. In practice-oriented areas of education such as design, many ...
Jonas Frich, Peter Dalsgaard // 2018
First introduced more than 15 years ago, toolkits for prototyping are intended to facilitate rapid prototyping. These toolkits are often framed as means to support and speed up the creative process ...
Euan Coutts, Campbell Pugsley // 2018
Physical and virtual prototypes are widely used throughout industry in the development of engineering designs. There have been many studies documenting the benefits of both. This work discusses and ...
Oberhofer, Felix; Maier, Thomas // 2018
Since the focus on the user is becoming increasingly important, the requirements on product modeling tools to design user centered products increase in equal measure. The range of applicable tools is ...
Henriksson, Fredrik; Detterfelt, Jonas // 2018
It is a well-known fact that collaboration between design and production during product development is a critical success factor. Literature on product development have described many different ...
Dittenberger, Sandra // 2018
This paper discusses the question of the awareness and representation of product design aspects in the user-centred design's ISO process model applied in research projects in the realm of the Active ...
Montero, Joaquin; Paetzold, Kristin; Bleckmann, Matthias; Holtmannspoetter, Jens // 2018
In military systems, usually the repair of deployed equipment can become impossible due to the lack of a spare, either due to logistical problems or because said component is no longer in production. ...
Ellman, Asko; Paronen, Juha; Juuti, Tero Sakari; Tiainen, Tarja // 2018
This study presents views on barriers of re-use of engineering design rationale. The research data was gathered by interviewing 29 persons who work in 19 different Finnish SME engineering project ...
Xu, Zhi-Gang; Su, Kai-Yuan; Zhu, Jian-Feng; Liu, Wei-Min // 2018
A design method of function-to-form mapping is proposed for spiral bevel gear. The rules are established. The mathematical model of tooth surface of the spiral bevel gear is deduced, the boundary of ...
Graeff, Eliot; Maranzana, Nicolas; Aoussat, Améziane // 2018
Although biomimetic design practice becomes more and more common, some methodological aspects are still under development. More especially, this article aims at dealing with biologist’s role and ...
Barrie, Jeff // 2018
Mechanical Engineering students learn a lot in their first two years of study, building up core engineering knowledge. Courses and subjects range from Mathematics to Solid Mechanics, Thermodynamics ...
Dan Brian Trowsdale, Gerard Du, Jacques Giard // 2018
User-centered design or user-focused design are terms which describe processes that attempt to involve potential customers or users within a design process. The intention of such processes is to ...
Becerril, Lucia; Lindemann, Udo // 2018
In today’s dynamic environment, companies need to adapt their design processes faster than ever. Lack of employee involvement has been highlighted as a main issue during the adoption of new processes ...
Nardelli, Miriam; Cicconi, Paolo; Raffaeli, Roberto; Germani, Michele // 2018
Nowadays, different commercial tools are available to support engineers during optimization tasks in engineering design; however, many researches have been still studying tools and methods to improve ...
Bavendiek, Ann-Kathrin; Paulsen, Hilko; Vietor, Thomas; Kauffeld, Simone // 2018
Due to globalization, increasing concurrence, time pressure, as well as the complexity of today’s products, enterprises develop and produce products more internationally. This results in the ...
Hollauer, Christoph; Langner, Michael; Lindemann, Udo // 2018
Project tailoring is discussed in academia and industry as a way to bridge the project-specific adaptation of generic organizational reference process models. Research into process tailoring in ...
Duschek, Daniel; Vielhaber, Michael // 2018
The constantly increasing customer requirements as well as the shortening of development and innovation cycles of future vehicle models presents the automotive industry with a great challenge. In ...
Ribu, Kirsten; Patel, Tulpesh // 2018
Project-based learning (PjBL) is a well-known student-centred methodology for engineering design education that encourages student-active learning through enhanced participation in the learning ...
Tegeltija, Miroslava; Oehmen, Josef; McMahon, Christopher Alan; Maier, Anja; Kozin, Igor; Škec, Stanko // 2018
While risk quantification research has grown over the last few decades, only a limited number of studies have addressed the overall process integration of these approaches in design risk management. ...
Revfi, Sven; Albers, Albert; Stegmiller, Marcus // 2018
In order to achieve weight targets, the product developer can rely on the five lightweight design strategies concept, material, form, manufacturing and conditional lightweight design. However, ...