Seki, Kenichi; Nishimura, Hidekazu; Zhu, Shaopeng; Balmelli, Laurent // 2011
Today's market demand for smaller and more powerful consumer electronic devices poses a major challenge to the rapid design of products. In addition, the ability to perform strategic ...
Mathieson, James; Miller, Michael; Summers, Joshua // 2011
The evaluation of design processes is often conducted after the process has been completed or as a case study on a single process. These two approaches each cannot be used to improve an ongoing ...
Vandevenne, Dennis; Verhaegen, Paul-Armand; Dewulf, Simon; Duflou, Joost R. // 2011
Many applications of Biologically-Inspired Design (BID) are well-known and research is increasingly focusing on methodologies towards systematic BID. However, currently no ideation tool exists that ...
Hatchuel, Armand; Le Masson, Pascal; Reich, Yoram; Weil, Benoit // 2011
In this paper we build a systematic comparison of several formal design theories: General Design Theory, Axiomatic Design, Coupled Design Process, Infused Design and C-K theory. Each theory offers ...
Woodcock, Andree; Fielden, Simon; Bartlett, Richard // 2011
Evaluation is an essential and yet largely overlooked component in design education. Although a more user centred, inclusive approach to design is now advocated, practicing designers may not have ...
Matthews, Jason; Medland, Anthony // 2011
Design teaching is complicated due to its context specific nature. The teaching of it as an academic subject focuses on the core technologies of embodiment, detailing and manufacture. In order to put ...
Röhner, Sebastian; Breitsprecher, Thilo; Wartzack, Sandro // 2011
The increasing requirements on technical products represent a growing challenge for the manufacturing engineering. This challenge will be met by the development of a new manufacturing technology ...
Hansen, Zaza Nadja Lee; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2011
Offshoring various stages in the product development process – from engineering tasks like R&D and design to manufacturing activities - can impact the development process, the product and the ...
Morgan, Thea; Tryfonas, Theo // 2011
This paper presents an ethnographic case study of an engineering design team during the development and implementation of a systematic design process. Prior to this the team had used only adhoc and ...
Bolognini, Francesca; Shea, Kristina; Seshia, Ashwin // 2011
From modelling to manufacturing, computers have increasingly become partners in the design process, helping automate many phases once carried out by hand. In the creative phase, computational ...
Osorio, Gómez; Gilberto, Mejía; Gutiérrez, Ricardo; Sierra ,Zuluaga; Luis, Fernando // 2011
The Product Design Engineering (PDE) program at EAFIT University – Colombia has been the first in its kind at local level, searching for a good compromise between both engineering and industrial ...
Schubert, Sebastian; Feldhusen, Jörg; Nagarajah, Arun // 2011
Today, as a result of a steadily increasing pressure to reduce costs in the automotive supply industry, the majority of the products are designed by adapting already existing products. In the ...
Bhaskara, S. // 2011
Computer Aided Design (CAD) Systems are large and complex software systems with feature-based solid modelling, NURBS surfaces, sketching, and constraints management functionality and capture ...
Albers, Albert; Wiedner, Aaron // 2011
During the process of developing new solutions, the designer creates different representations of the design object, which have a high variation in their level of abstraction. These representations ...
Sander, Thomas; Wartzack, Sandro // 2011
The surface of the component has a great impact on the functionality and has to be considered as a complex constructional element. It is hard to state an optimal time frame for the definition of ...
Schmidt, Johanna; Karl, Ines; Paetzold, Kristin; Färber, Berthold // 2011
Age-related limitations of cognitive, sensory or motor functions often restrict the mobility of elderly people. Technical devices are able to compensate for these limitations and can preserve the ...
Eisenbart, Boris; Blessing, Luciënne // 2011
Design models are an essential means for abstract representation and visualisation of information in the design process. Comprehension of design models in interdisciplinary engineering design teams ...
Estrada, Gabriela; Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
Design For Poka Yoke Assembly-DFPYA is a new DFX created to prevent potential assembly issues since early design stages. This prevention is possible by designing the product with poka-yoke or ...
Sato, Koichiro; Matsuka, Yoshiyuki // 2011
In the early design process, diverse design ideas are generated from a global solution search under unclear design conditions. Because it is difficult to apply conventional engineering design in the ...
Follmer, Martin; Hehenberger, Peter; Punz, Stefan; Rosen, Roland; Zeman, Klaus // 2011
One of the major challenges in developing mechatronic products is the increasing complexity of the products themselves. The defining feature of mechatronic products is the interplay between various ...
Brezing, Alexander Nikolaus; Childs, Peter; Yim, Hyunjune; Bland, Paul Wilson; Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick // 2011
Engineering Design Theory as an integral part of engineering education serves the purpose of structuring the actions and thinking processes of practitioners in order to increase the efficiency of the ...
Gonçalves, Milene Guerreiro; Cardoso, Carlos; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
Searching for sources for inspiration during the design process is a widespread activity and it is considered as a crucial step for most designers, independent of the degree of expertise. However, ...
Casakin, Hernan // 2011
Associative thinking can help designers to reflect over a problem situation by focusing on unrelated perspectives. During this process, a mapping of high order relations can be established between a ...
Konez, Ero // 2011
The evolution process of nature creates highly effective, power efficient, and perfectly structured biological systems. These excellent systems provide an inexhaustible source for engineers and ...