Jiang, Pingfei; Atherton, Mark; Harrison, David; Malizia, Alessio // 2017
Nowadays companies strive to stay competitive in the market by introducing innovative products and protecting their Intellectual Property by filing patents. However, with an increasing number of ...
Al Maghraoui, Ouail; Vallet, Flore; Puchinger, Jakob; Yannou, Bernard // 2017
Urban mobility poses some sustainability and design practice challenges. Mobility components such as vehicles, urban infrastructure, mobility services or other services delivered along a mobility ...
Sjovoll, Vibeke; Gulden, Tore // 2017
Product designers often take it upon themselves to define environments, problems, and solutions for others. Unfortunately this can serve to arrest the potential engagement for people and block the ...
Kammerl, Daniel; Echle, Stefan; Mörtl, Markus // 2017
The early phase of each development process is characterised by severe decisions under great uncertainty. To facilitate these decisions, it is crucial to know the (external) influences on the product ...
Beghelli, Alejandra; Briede, Juan; Carrasco, Miguel; Prieto, Pablo // 2017
Generative design is a computer aided design system that automatically or semi-automatically produces design solutions. Generative design systems help designers to save time and labor during the ...
Bertolaccini, Guilherme da Silva; Vasquez, Melissa Marin; Bianchi, Ana Carolina; Sandes, Frode Eika; Paschoarelli, Luis Carlos; Medola, Fausto Orsi // 2017
The research in the field of ergonomics can contribute to the design process of Assistive Technologies using objective and subjective data measurements. The auxiliary crutches are assistive devices ...
Kiernan, Louise brigid; Ledwith, Ann; Lynch, Raymond // 2017
Design education has moved towards a collaborative practice where designers work in teams and with other disciplines to solve unstructured problems. Along with the cognitive skills involved in the ...
Snider, Chris; Emanuel, Lia; Gopsill, James; Joel-Edgar, Sian; Hicks, Ben // 2017
Performance of engineering design and development projects depends on myriad factors, creating challenges in implementation and management. These are compounded by potential for high variation across ...
Junk, Stefan; Schröder, Werner; Hangst, Nikolai // 2017
The development and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) require a multitude of design rules. Thereby, additive manufacturing (AM) processes provide a number of significant advantages ...
Wilson, Nicky; Thomson, Avril; Riches, Philip // 2017
Despite the existence of many design tools to educate and assist the designer in implementing inclusive design, there is still a lack of inclusive design uptake in industry. The client is often cited ...
Grashiller, Michael; Luedeke, Tobias; Vielhaber, Michael // 2017
The aim of this paper is to investigate the arrangement of creative techniques and flexible project management methods to enable innovative product development in one single process. Because ...
Graessler, Iris; Scholle, Philipp; Pottebaum, Jens // 2017
Originating from strategic management, scenario-technique yields potentials for requirements engineering. In this paper an integrated process model for such an application of scenario-technique is ...
Lippert, Bastian; Ahrens, Martin; Dekhiar, Jonathan; Louhichi, Rim; Song, Young-Woo; Toepfer, Ferdinand; Briede, Juan; Vajna, Sandor; Paetzold, Kristin; Borg, Jonathan // 2017
This paper describes the key success factors of an integrated product development project involving several stakeholders from different professional and cultural backgrounds. Based on a summer school ...
Stark, Camilla Gwendolyn; Howell, Bryan // 2017
Sanders and Stappers (2013) propose a new interpretation of design disciplines that is not delineated by traditional fields such as industrial design, graphic design, or architecture, but by themes ...
Benjamin, Stacy; Anderson, John // 2017
We present how conducting expert design reviews in an undergraduate, capstone design project course can address learning goals related to design, communication, and professionalism. In this course, ...
Aßmann, Gert; Stetter, Ralf // 2017
Current complex products such as transportation systems usually dispose of an elaborate monitoring, control and diagnosis system. Very often such intelligent systems rely on models of the product ...
Kößler, Johannes; Paetzold, Kristin // 2017
The development of technical products is faced with an increasing amount of data of different domains. The communication between them is becoming more difficult. Additionally the dependencies between ...
Gärtner, Frank; Pietzsch, Martin; Frye, Annika // 2017
During the last years, the differences between industrial design and engineering design have become increasingly blurred. The two disciplines show interferences regarding their methods, problems and ...
Bix, Susanne // 2017
Enhancing integration at the design-manufacturing interface in new product development is increasingly important for industrial players to keep up with shorter product lifecycles and innovative ...
Höhn, Manuel; Hollauer, Christoph; Wilberg, Julian; Kammerl, Daniel; Mörtl, Markus; Omer, Mayada // 2017
The design of new product development processes which integrate customer perspective promises great potential regarding rising volatility of external influences, shorter product life cycles and ...
Lai, Yoke-Chin // 2017
Augmented Reality (AR) has become a popular tool in education at all levels, ranging from the primary to the tertiary ones. Many AR tools seem to have been developed with the intention to facilitate ...
Carro Saavedra, Cristina; Lindemann, Udo // 2017
The reuse of documented knowledge still represents a challenge for engineering design companies. Most of the research and practice in knowledge management has focused on the systematic collection, ...
Andrae, Rene; Köhler, Peter // 2017
The extensive possibilities of modern CAD-software turn the classic approach into a more dynamic one. This opens up the possibility to take into consideration influences from the production and ...
Philipp, Kestel; Thomas, Luft; Claudia, Schön; Patricia, Kügler; Thomas, Bayer; Benjamin, Schleich; Steffen, Staab; Sandro, Wartzack // 2017
The reuse of product and process models during the product development process leads to considerable savings of costs and time. Such models are available in digital form in data and knowledge bases. ...