Isa, Siti Salwa; Liem, Andre; Steinert, Martin // 2015
Prototypes are considered to be efficient tools in engineering design as they help to reveal flaws in ideas and concepts, highlighting problems to be solved. Limited research has been conducted in ...
Ben Hamida, Sonia; Jankovic, Marija; Callot, Martine; Monceaux, Anne; Eckert, Claudia // 2015
Early phase design phases of more and more complex systems enhance the need for a more interdependent decision-making process across design disciplines and processes. No clear system architecture ...
Costa, Daniel Guzzo; Macul, Victor Cussiol; Costa, Janaina Mascarenhas Hornos; Exner, Konrad; Pförtner, Anne; Stark, Rainer; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2015
Companies that follow a reference process are usually more successful. Over the last decades many different reference process models have been developed primarily in academia. Nevertheless, many ...
Kumar, P.; Tandon, P. // 2015
Design of any product is associated with a number of elements like technical parameters, material properties, functional and geometrical interdependence, etc. A balance between the technical ...
Li, Xuemeng; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2015
Design requirement identification is often the initial step in the product development process, for market-pull cases. Understanding the nature of design requirements and the sources, from where they ...
Zahedi, Mithra; Azouz, Zoubeir // 2015
ribe three-dimensional (3D) forms in two dimensions. However, given the aptitude of today’s students to operate 3Dmodelling software and the general accessibility of current technology, spatial ...
Kim, Chajoong; Kim, Yeonghun // 2015
As only technical advancement in the market is not enough to meet increasingly higher expectations of users, companies have tried to take the initiative through multi-disciplinary approach in the ...
Parraguez, Pedro; Maier, Anja M. // 2015
A number of network-based process models have been developed to guide the design of engineering systems. Many such models represent design activities only as single nodes. As a result, the ...
Mamo, James; Farrugia, Philip; Borg, Jonathan; Wodehouse, Andrew; Grierson, Hilary; Kovacevic, Ahmed // 2015
Collaborative design practice in distributed student teams is becoming more popular as technology makes it easier to communicate ideas with others that are geographically distant. However, a ...
Hautsch, Stefan; Katona, Sebastian; Sprügel, Tobias; Koch, Michael; Rieg, Frank; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Structural optimization as a tool of the virtual product development process
(PDP) provides broad possibilities to scoop lightweight design and improvement potentialities
when developing new ...
Gundersen, Gunnar H; Berg, Arild // 2015
Design students need to be able to build a bridge between their own practice and the various receivers of their messages. Studies in design practice confirm that visualisation is a powerful ...
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard // 2015
Historically, Product Designers have concerned themselves with manufactured objects through negotiated briefs for clients either as external consultants or in-house designers. Within this remit ...
Haupt, Grietjie // 2015
This paper outlines a small-scale design-based research project in progress that attempts (a) to understand the use of enquiry during the early phases of the design process from an extended cognition ...
Heinemann, Stefan; Vietor, Thomas // 2014
In the highly innovative field of car body engineering, the interface between part design and production equipment engineering is essentially important. For new production ...
Harald, Skulberg // 2014
This paper explores the potential of using technology as a tool for creativity in design education. The gap between research and practice in the design field requires a stronger emphasis on research ...
Vukašinovic ,N.; Fain ,N. // 2014
The paper identifies the value of the project-based learning in the aspects of: (1) defined set of skills students perceive as relevant for their transition from theory to practice; (2) identified ...
Mader (1), Angelika; Eggink (2), Wouter // 2014
Creative Technology is a new bachelor programme at the University of Twente. Goal of Creative Technology is to design products and applications that improve the quality of daily life in its manifold ...
Betancourt, M.C.; Quintero, L.M.; Cereceda, G. // 2014
This paper presents the identification of patterns of difficulty that design students face at the moment of applying algorithmic thinking and parametric modeling from the generation of the idea, to ...
Saavedra, Cristina Carro; Schrieverhoff, Phillip; Lindemann, Udo // 2014
The way of applying simulations in the product development process (PDP) presents a great potential for improvement. Nowadays relevant decisions regarding simulations in PDP are made by developers, ...
Heck, J.; Braun, A.; Meboldt, M. // 2014
There is a broad range of PDP models, and decision-makers face the problem how to identify the best-suited model for the specific situations of their organisations. Based on a literature search for ...
de Vere, Ian // 2014
Social media has enabled a new style of consumerism. Consumers are no longer passive recipients; instead they are assuming active and participatory roles in product design and production, facilitated ...
Canina, M.; Anselmi, L.; Coccioni, E.; Fattorossi, M. // 2014
The IDEACtivity Center research team focuses on the synergy between various creativity techniques and the typical tools employed by Design. As a result a method and supporting toolkit have been ...
Wickel, Martina C.; Lindemann, Udo // 2014
A serious part of development capacity in industry is needed for implementing Engineering Changes (EC) in order to improve or adapt products. Companies usually apply workflow management systems to ...
Snider ,C.M.; Dekoninck ,E.A.; Culley ,S.J. // 2014
While the study of creative behaviour is important within design research, there has to date been little study of that within later-stage design; an issue due to its inherent differences to early ...