Koskinen, Ilpo K; Dorst, Kees // 2015
This paper proposes to reshape the discussion design schools about the relationship of design practice to research. Many universities now have very successful design departments that educate ...
Hassannezhad, Mohammad; Cantamessa, Marco; Montagna, Francesca // 2015
Socio-technical aspect of engineering design is an inter-disciplinary domain, an integrated organization of human- and non-human interactions. Modeling socio-technical design processes can therefore ...
Fernandes, João; Henriques, Elsa; Silva, Arlindo; Pimentel, César // 2015
Early design is the most dynamic and unpredictable stage of complex design processes, since it involves a great deal of uncertainty, collaborative iteration and adaptive organizational behaviour. ...
Reitmeier, Jochen; Chahin, Abdo; Paetzold, Kristin // 2015
The requirements related to technical systems are very diverse. This ultimately leads to an increase in complexity in products and in development processes. Due to time and cost pressure, effective ...
Yager, Matthieu; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Merminod, Valéry // 2015
In this paper we focus on the collaborative process of definition of specifications of a complex product. The aim of the paper is to improve the understanding of the specifications elaboration ...
Meyer, Andreas Wilhelm; Wuensch, Andreas; Vajna, Sándor; Koenig, Oliver // 2015
Creativity processes and idea generation techniques play an important role in innovation processes. They are necessary to get economic success. There are more than hundred techniques for creativity ...
Qin, Hao; Wang, Hongwei; Liu, Yusheng // 2015
Design efficiency has significant influence on a company s sustainable competitiveness. Reusing part of the previous product design can undoubtedly improve design efficiency, and thus the need of ...
Shapiro, Daniel; Sommer, Anita Friis; Clarkson, Peter John // 2015
Research on changes in design has focused on engineering changes, i.e. changes in the product domain, which is the manifestation of the design process. This article takes a different perspective and ...
Laukemann, Alexander; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2015
In the research field of knowledge-based product development, a huge number of knowledge management solutions is available and enjoys high attention in the entrepreneurial environment. In contrast to ...
Weiss, Florian; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2015
Additive Manufacturing technologies are becoming more and more economical. In some cases due to the possible complexity of geometry they can be competitive to conventional manufacturing. But ...
Nil Gulari, Melehat; Fremantle, Chris // 2015
This study analyses the design discourse and approaches in order to identify whether design-led
innovation approaches are applicable to SMEs. It discusses the number of concepts that are ...
Ranjan, B.S.C.; Chakrabarti, A. // 2015
Phase based design approaches are used in industry and many engineering projects for their various advantages, such as ease of management in designing complex products, better monitoring of updates ...
Lenau, Torben Anker; Keshwani, Sonal; Chakrabarti, Amaresh; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2015
Biocards are formal descriptions of biological phenomena and their underlying functional principles. They are used in bioinspired design to document search results and to communicate the findings for ...
Kapilavai, Aditya; Mohan, Rajesh Elara; Tan, Ning // 2015
Mobile robots capable of traversing rough terrains are highly desired for numerous applications including search, reconnaissance and surveillance missions. To this end, nature offers numerous highly ...
Jensen, David Charles; Huisman, Nicholas // 2015
In nature, the continued survival of a species depends on the adaptability to unexpected environmental factors. While major mutations may lead to the selection of preferred traits in the long term, ...
Kokotovich, Vasilije // 2015
More often than not Designers and Design Engineers, tend to focus on Techno-physical aspects as they move through their design process. It is argued even the smallest and seemingly benign design ...
Michelini, Gustavo; Amaral, Daniel Capaldo // 2015
There is a set of significant researches about branding and a consensus that design product is an important tool to create and maintain it. A set of authors demonstrated that functions and ...
Wilson, Nicky; Thomson, Avril; Riches, Philip // 2015
As the global population ages, inclusive design is becoming more important to companies due to customer demands and increased competition. It is also acknowledged that the use of a formalized design ...
Crostack, Alexander; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2015
Product development is characterised by an improvement of functional integration and a lack of new adapted design elements. For those reasons, within research unit 981 a new class of design elements ...
Pedersen, J. U.; Onarheim, B. // 2015
This paper is concerned with the question of how we can capture creativity in collaborative design processes consisting of two or more individuals collaborating in the process of producing innovative ...
Kosiol, Maike; Böhmer, Annette Isabel; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
People aspire to individuality and look for products that correspond to their needs as much as possible. In the InnoCyFer project the complete process of individualization - starting with the ...
Kehl, Stefan; Stiefel, Patrick; Mueller, Joerg P. // 2015
In this concept paper, we report on ongoing work aimed at a novel approach to developing complex products. Based on an analysis of the requirements of product development in the automotive industry, ...
Mřhl, Martin; Grode, Jesper // 2015
ts. Taken to extremes this approach requires the engineer to be an attentive, critical and creative end user before success is obtainable. This is naturally not possible, never the less the issue is ...
Rodriguez Moreno, Paulina; Rohmer, Serge; Ma, Hwong-Wen // 2015
Is in the early stages of design process where decisions can have most influence on the definition of product environmental performance. Nevertheless, is difficult to integrate environmental ...