Paetzold, K., K // 2014
The management of data and information flows is getting more and more important for the system integration and thereby the product quality. In this paper the model-based system engineering is used ...
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard; Beaufoy, John; McGonigal, Stephen // 2014
Since the 1980’s Industrial Design has developed beyond the remit of the traditional realisation of the object or product. Design is seen as a user-centred problem identification and solution ...
Becker, Juan Jauregui; Wits, Wessel // 2014
This paper presents a new experienced-based approach to teaching product design. The goal is to address specific issues that are difficult to teach to students effectively in a purely theoretical ...
Eigner, Martin; Ernst, Joscha; Roubanov, Daniil; Dickopf, Thomas // 2014
In this paper an initial approach is presented that supports the exchange of assembly-related information between design and assembly planning even before the geometry of the individual parts will be ...
Roa Castro (1, Laura; Stal-Le Cardinal (2), Julie // 2014
This paper aims at defining collaborative modelling and simulation (M&S) and at fining the research gap on collaborative M&S domain. In order to give an overview of the collaborative work in product ...
Verwulgen, Stijn; Lacko; De Bruyne, Guido; Danckaers, Femke; Christis, Naomi; Sijbers, Jan; Huysmans, Toon // 2014
State of the art computational methods might offer the opportunity to handle 3D anthropometrical information: in a collection of similar 3D shapes, when there is a correspondence of points, certain ...
W // 2014
The FMEA is a method to analyse failures and their risks to the customer. If it is used as early as possible during the product development process, the usable level of information is very low. The ...
Eigner, M.; Roubanov, D.; Sindermann, S.; Ernst, J. // 2014
A design engineer’s major task is the fulfilment of design requirements like form, fit and function while production relevant properties are typically not in scope yet. Unfortunately the designer ...
Donati, C.; Vignoli ,M. // 2014
The only way to create a shared understanding of an idea in the design process is to convert it in a tangible prototype. This paper investigates how the tangibility level of a prototype can affect ...
Isa, S.S.; Liem, A. // 2014
This paper discusses model making approaches in the design process and also classifies broadly the different types of physical models and prototypes. It also describes the fundamental principles of ...
Pavel, Nenad; Berg // 2014
Entrepreneurship is identified as a key activity to creating value to society as well as the successful adaption of the products and services to users’ lives. This is why entrepreneurship as concept ...
Colombo, E.F.; Cascini, G. // 2014
Even though Engineering literature concerning “Complexity” is huge, there is still much discussion about the meaning of this word. This paper attempts to provide an operational definition of ...
Guerra, A.L.; Gidel, T.; Vezzetti ,E.; Jones, A.; Lenne ,D. // 2014
Computer supported cooperative tools in design are introduced to improve the preliminary design process. A design strategy called Methodological Circulation is also presented, which is based on a ...
Loy, Jennifer // 2014
Medical product design practice has changed over the last five years as advances in technology, both digital and practical, have opened up new opportunities to address patient needs in innovative ...
Walter, Johanna; Paetzold, Kristin // 2014
Products, which support people’s autonomy and self-determination, have to be adapted to the users’ wishes, needs and circumstances. For the development of those products it is not ...
Herriott ,R. // 2014
This paper asks if Inclusive Design (ID) can be delimited by examining design for accessibility in the areas of assistive technology (AT) and public transport (PT) with reference to consumer product ...
Sauthoff, Bastian; Gembarski, Paul Christoph; Lachmayer, Roland // 2014
The computer-aided configuration of technical systems is a powerful tool for companies to reduce the time to market by an automatisation of subtasks of the design process. Compared to ...
Wan Chin, Tan; Yee Siong Liang, Peter; Pheow Hwa, Lek // 2014
Singapore’s economy underwent a remarkable transformation within five decades spanning from the 1960s to the new millenium to emerge as the heart of Asia’s economy. In response to the rapid changes ...
Kettunen, Ilkka // 2014
This paper provides an autoethnographic account of my personal journey through the early phases of a design process in a product development project that took place in an SME company. I reflect on my ...
Ellmers, Grant; Bennett, Sue; Brown, Ian // 2014
The application of project-based and studio-based learning in design education is widespread. For this multiple-project curriculum to be effective, it is important students transfer their learning ...
Seiler, Katrin; Tremmel, Stephan; Wartzack, Sandro // 2014
Friction can be reduced by avoiding friction, by using frictionless designs or by optimizing the friction involving contacts. In rolling bearings, which run under extreme conditions, ...
De Lessio, Mark P. // 2014
Across many design disciplines, much research has been and continues to be conducted in the area of developing advanced methodologiesto enhance the overall design process. Much of this research has ...
Lavayssiere ,P.; Blanco, E.; Le Dain ,M.-A.; Ch // 2014
In order to innovate better and faster, enterprises can work on their product development process (PDP). The literature provides several PDPs, but also recommend to adapt these processes to the ...
Tovey, Michael John; Osmond, Jane // 2014
There is a long tradition of teaching design through design practice in universities and colleges. The end goal for graduates is to achieve a level of capability to function as designers in the ...