Stetter, R.; Witczak ,P.; Staiger ,B. // 2014
The energy necessary for the production of goods can very often not be analyzed in depth in early stages of product development, because today the common tools of product development, such as ...
Kemmler, Stefan; Bertsche, Bernd // 2014
Product requirements grow with customer requirements. Thus, systems become more complex, but the demands for quality, reliability, safety and energy efficiency increase. In order ...
Hasselknippe, Kathinka; Reikvam, Gudrun; Fladvad Nielsen, Brita // 2014
A student design project conducted in a refugee settlement in Eastern Ethiopia during fall 2013 illustrates the challenges of designing appropriate products and systems for the humanitarian market. ...
Steen-Hansen, Linn; Gine Lundh, Maud Veronica; Chen, Weiqin // 2014
Experts have predicted that 3D technologies will take on a growing importance in the economy. Results from a previous research in a Norwegian College indicate that the use of 3D modelling programs ...
Graziosi, S.; Ferrise, F.; Bordegoni ,M. // 2014
In the paper a point of view on the prototyping activity in the engineering design process is provided. The discussion is focused on early prototypes since they play a key role in determining the ...
Halonen, Nillo; Lehtonen, Timo; Juuti, Tero // 2014
The front-end of an NPD project is a challenging area due to lack of adequate information, limited time, multidisciplinary teams and concurrent engineering. In this kind of environment communication ...
Kreimeyer, M. // 2014
This paper reviews the industrial implementation of product architecture design at a large commercial vehicle manufacturer. The steps taken towards a full implementation as well as the value of ...
Lorentz R., Pens // 2014
This paper questions the role of innovation intermediation in the new product development process. Based on a qualitative research approach, we investigate two cases of intermediaries : an innovation ...
Zeiler, Wim // 2014
The built environment is one of the most important areas of sustainable development. New strong demands for a more sustainable built environment led to a more complex design process. To cope with ...
Lachmayer, Roland; Gottwald, Philipp // 2014
The approach presented in this contribution includes the elaboration of the interdisciplinary strategies and computer-aided tools in product development process during the whole product life cycle. ...
Keitsch, Martina Maria // 2014
User involvement is increasingly gaining recognition and the number of user-researchers in the international design community is growing. However, the question: “Designing with users, how?” implies ...
Michelin, F.; Vallet, F.; Reyes, T.; Eynard, B.; Duong, V.L. // 2014
This paper investigates how the environment is taken in account in the client/supplier relationship. This issue is particularly important given the growing influence of suppliers’ design choices on ...
Stangl, T.; Pribek ,M.; Wartzack ,S. // 2014
Structural optimization enables the product developer to compute a lightweight design proposal of a considered component during the design process. If topology optimization is integrated as early as ...
Ugurlu, Sinan; Gerhard, Detlef // 2014
This paper describes a new higher education course “Integrative Product Creation” in the bachelor curriculum of mechanical and industrial engineering and its implementation in the TU Wien Learning ...
Eriksson, M.; Petersson, H.; Bj // 2014
In the large majority of product development projects, computer-based design analyses are performed to assess the feasibility of potential technical solutions. As a first step to bring about a deeper ...
Menning, Axel; Beyhl, Thomas; Giese, Holger; Weinberg, Ulrich; Nicolai, Claudia // 2014
Design Thinking (DT) has proven to be a solid approach to engage in complex and ill-defined problem scenarios. Still, Design Documentation (DD) is a complex and yet essential part of the DT process ...
Fiorineschi, L.; Rissone, P.; Rotini, F. // 2014
Literature acknowledges modular architectures to give rise to a series of positive effects, and advantages given by considering modularity early in the design process have also been inferred. ...
Vezzani, Valentina; Tang, Tang // 2014
It has been acknowledged that in the current sustainable design practice, the main focus tends to be on environmental and economic sustainability, while the social dimension of sustainability has ...
Spruegel, Tobias C.; Wartzack, Sandro // 2014
The Finite Element Method is a very powerful tool to enhance product quality and to reduce unnecessary and costly iterations during the product development process. However ...
Bavendiek, Ann-Kathrin; Inkermann, David; Vietor, Thomas // 2014
Design methods are used to support single steps of the product development process and are expected to contribute to reduce development time and higher degree of innovation. Increasing time and cost ...
Kiefer, J. // 2014
In automotive industry, the development and operational use of lean digital validation methods takes a significant role to cope with current challenges in the field of production engineering. This ...
Makinen, Samuli; Helminen, Pia // 2014
For successful service design, it is vital to be aware of the varying and often remarkably different stakeholder understandings of a service. However, the intangible nature of services results in ...
El Gamoussi, S.; Costa Affonso, R.; Cheutet, V.; Lelievre, A. // 2014
In the current competitive industrial context, controlling and improving the Product Development Process (PDP) are of prior interest to meet the multiple customer requirements at the shortest time. ...
von Saucken, C.C.; Schenkl ,S.A.; Dahlmann, P.; Maurer, M. // 2014
The employees’ knowledge is the essential success factor for technology-intensive companies, especially within knowledge-intensive processes such as the engineering design process. We see a big ...