Mulder, Wienik; Basten, Rob J. I.; Jauregui Becker, Juan M.; Van Dongen, Leo A. M. // 2013
Industrial equipment requires maintenance to remain operational. The level of maintenance that is required, and how easily it can be executed, is affected by the characteristics of the equipment. ...
Weixelbaum, Ilona; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Dörner, Dietrich // 2013
The need for flexibility in designersâ acting and thinking processes can be seen as a core requirement for successful design practice. For designers collaborating in a team gaining cognitive ...
Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Hanusch, Dirk // 2013
Developing sustainable products is no easy task. For designers, this means that not only technical requirements for functional performance but also ecological, economic and social requirements have ...
Otto, Kevin; Levandowski, Christoffer; Forslund, Anders; Johannesson, Hans; Söderberg, Rikard // 2013
Development platforms are automated software tools used to synthesize new designs. They are prevalent in the embedded system design domain, with applications ranging from integrated circuits, circuit ...
Lan, Lijun; Liu, Ying; Loh, Han Tong // 2013
Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) has been widely used to analyze and present the inter-structure of design projects which are often characterized by many interrelated tasks. One essential role of ...
Gericke, Kilian; Meißner, Moritz; Paetzold, Kristin // 2013
Adaptation of design methodologies to the context in which they should be actually applied is seen as a necessity in order to enhance its acceptance and to widen its application. Even though, a ...
Daly, Shanna; McGowan, Anna; Papalambros, Panos // 2013
In order to support successful strategies in design education and practice, we must have a deep understanding of the complex dynamics of design processes, teams, contexts, and systems. Facilitating ...
Wang, Zhihua; Childs, Peter R N; Jiang, Pingfei // 2013
Effective information gathering in problem and task related fields with which designers or design teams may not be familiar is a key part of the design process. Designers usually consult with subject ...
Korsgaard Hejlesen, Aske; Tollestrup, Christian // 2013
An important skill in the professional life of an industrial design is to be able to create products and thereby making product / development decisions within a given set of limitations. These ...
Kannengiesser, Udo; Williams, Christopher; Gero, John // 2013
One of the goals of design research is to identify regularities across different design processes. This paper presents experimental evidence that there exist commonalities between three separate ...
Wickel, Martina Carolina; Behncke, Florian; Udo, Lindemann // 2013
Changes in engineering design are a necessary and inevitable part of the design process, be it to improve products or to cope with occurring problems. Changes, however, are often connected with high ...
Albers, Albert; Behrendt, Matthias; Schroeter, Jens; Ott, Sascha; Klingler, Simon // 2013
Emerging complexity of vehicle development is expected not to be faced without supporting development methods, processes and tools. Extensive interactions of vehicle components and the vehicle as ...
Izadpanahi, P.; Xu, L.; , H. Elkadi; Ang, S. // 2012
There is a consensus that children should be involved in the planning and design process of their schools, and attempts have been made throughout the world. This paper introduces ...
Maier, A. M.; Wynn ,D. C.; Andreasen, M. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2012
This article considers the creation and use of Design methods and process models from a cybernetic perspective. We suggest that a process model and method are similar in nature, in that they both ...
Kim, Y. S.; Lee ,S. W.; Kim, J. H.; Do, S. H. // 2012
A successful PSS should satisfy economical, ecological and experience values to meet the value creation paradiam. A systematic design method for PSS has been developed where activities of ...
Vanhatalo ,M.; Lehtonen ,T.; Juuti ,T.; Pakkanen, J.; Riitahuhta, A. // 2012
The aim of this research was to find out what was the focus areas of the development process theories presented in Design 2010 conference. The results are presented in a framework which visualises ...
Nik Ahmad Ariff, N. S.; Badke-Schaub, P.; Eris, O.; Suib ,S. S. S. // 2012
This study investigates communication processes during sketching in design teams on theoretical and empirical levels,and propose two frameworks.First,the design-communication block ...
Rajabalinejad ,M.; Spitas, C. // 2012
The focus of this paper is on development of a novel method for decision making process. Decisions play a major role at all stages of the design process. Here we propose to use a new decision making ...
Murthy, P. N. S.; Ramachandran, P.; Uppal, T.; Kumar, S. K. // 2012
Product Development Process (PDP) architecture holds the key to the management of New Product Development. This paper presents an analytical method for performance evaluation of generalized product ...
Eivind ,S // 2012
With the enormous development in digital aids for the designer, a key question emerging is which tool to use in which design stage and for what in order to keep momentum in the design process, in ...
Germani, M.; Bernabeu ,J. A.; Mandolini ,M.; Mengoni ,M.; Raffaeli ,R. // 2012
Diabetes is a growing health problem round the world. Doctors’ experience confirms the beneficial role of customized shoes in reducing the risk of ulceration for feet of diabetic peoples. Even if ...
Petersson, Hĺkan; Eriksson, Martin; Motte, Damien; Bjärnemo, Robert // 2012
Many product development projects nowadays use computer-aided engineering systems in the analysis of product proposals. It is therefore important to appropriately integrate the analyses activities in ...
Borgianni, Y.; Cascini, G.; Rotini, F. // 2012
An emerging thread of research is represented by the attempt of quantitatively assessing creativity, its dimensions and how it influences the design process. The endeavour of previous works has ...
Gericke, Kilian; Moser, Hubert Anton // 2012
Over the past decades many design process models have been proposed in design methodologies, standards, and guidelines. The development of design methodologies is accompanied by an on-going debate ...