Roussos, Lampros; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2013
Constant and rapid technological progress, along with the evolution of design and production methods, permits the adoption of technological achievements and the embodiment of new features in ...
Kühn, Arno; Bensiek, Tobias; Gausemeier, Jürgen // 2013
Increasing productivity and competitiveness are still major challenges for companies. One approach for performance improvement are maturity models. Their main principle is an objective performance ...
Velásquez Posada, Alejandra María // 2013
The goal of this paper is to present the teaching experiences and methodologies used in a Product Design Engineering undergraduate course called Design Project 3 (EAFIT University, Medellín - ...
Venturi, Francesca; Zinnai, Angela; Fantoni, Gualtiero; Gabelloni, Donata; Razionale, Armando Viviano // 2013
The FBS model describes theoretically the design process of a product. Only few papers present real industrial case studies, which are generally finalized to illustrate theoretical concepts.
The aim ...
Gabelloni, Donata; Montelisciani, Gabriele; Fantoni, Gualtiero // 2013
The new product development process increasingly involves multidisciplinary teams, that frequently do not belong to the same institution. Innovation often comes from external actors, as suppliers, ...
Domingo, Lucie; Brissaud, Daniel; Mathieux, Fabrice // 2013
Some product categories, like electro-domestics, generate most of their environmental impact during use phase. Yet, the integration of this product life-cycle stage has been a challenge for ...
Buckingham, Molly; Dekoninck, Elies; McMahon, Chris // 2013
This paper examines the role of the supported pilot project in introducing and embedding eco-design practices. This is achieved through the documentation of a pilot project that failed to achieve a ...
Ulrikkeholm, Jeppe Bjerrum; Hvam, Lars // 2013
Engineering companies offering customised products face growing demands to design products faster and more efficiently. To meet these demands, efficient engineering design processes for specifying ...
Boruah, Dipanka; Kakati, Vikramjit; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2013
There are large numbers of products locally innovated to suit particular context. However these are never available in the market in absence of their commercial manufacture that can be mutually ...
de Vere, Ian // 2013
New product development has traditionally been aligned with the manufacturing sector and established global supply chains. However new production technologies and global connectivity are transforming ...
Eigner, Martin; Ernst, Joscha; Roubanov, Daniil; Sindermann, Sebastian; Eickhoff, Thomas // 2013
The reduction of the overall manufacturing costs and time-to-market is one of the biggest strategic goals for many companies. Both factors (time and costs) are incurred during the production but ...
Varret, Antoine; Mahdjoub, Morad // 2013
Nowadays, numerical simulation tools take a central place in the design process of mechanical products, to face the imperatives of reducing costs and development time. However, their use is often ...
Sivaloganathan, Sangarapillai; Shahin, Tamer // 2013
This paper provides a case study on how design as a process can be used as an underlying foundation to link and integrate several subject areas. The paper discusses the process in which learning ...
Christophe, Francois; Mokammel, Faisal; Coatanéa, Eric; Bakhouya, Mohamed // 2013
This article combines evaluation and selection of early design concepts into a methodology at different stages of the development process. A web-based evaluation environment to support this ...
Gerber, Paul; Krebber, Sönke; Langer, Ingmar; Röbig, Sinja; Sprenger, Susanne; Stocker, André // 2013
Interdisciplinary work is gaining attention not only in the academic landscape. Even at University where many different disciplines coexist in a minimum amount of space, the interdisciplinary work ...
Capra, Andréa; Bernardes, Maurício Moreira e Silva // 2013
This paper aims to analyze the management of internal and external design teams during the product development process in two footwear companies of Paranhana Valley in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A ...
Eriksson, Martin; Motte, Damien // 2013
Computer-based design analysis activities are an essential part of most product development projects in industry. An effective integration of the analysis activity into the product development ...
Keating, Ken; Brougham, Claire; Gavin, Graham; Reilly, Ger // 2013
In education project teams that reflect organisational concepts considered normal in industrial design teams have a range of benefits for learning and graduate employability. They present a range of ...
Kohn, Andreas; Lindemann, Udo; Maurer, Maik // 2013
Product models are the medium of capturing and transporting information about the product in engineering design. The correct handling of product models is important for efficient and effective ...
Arrighi, Pierre-Antoine Bernard; Kazakci, Akin // 2013
Numerous researches provide evidence that Industrial design is key to trigger, foster and sustain innovation and can lead to a measurable performance growth of the business. Nevertheless, their ...
Ye, Yun; Jankovic, Marija; Bocquet, Jean-Claude // 2013
In organizational markets (B2B markets), the buyer and supplier companies often work together as collaborators in the context of an extended enterprise. As such a collaboration involves signing a ...
Linse, Charlotta // 2013
Design is a core technical and creative activity for innovation. Design consultancy companies make a business out of taking on ill structured development work. Uncertainty is an integral part of this ...
Casakin, Hernan; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2013
The study presented in this paper investigates the development of sharedness of mental models in situations of design problem solving. A basic assumption is that sharedness of individual mental ...
Bats, Jan; Valkenburg, Rianne; Verbeek, Peter-Paul // 2013
An increasingly important theme for ICT designers is in what way ICT interferes with moral reasoning. ICT has given us new possibilities and it has simplified our lives. However, it is also ...