Ahmad, Naveed; Wynn, David C; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Engineering change is a significant part of any product development programme. These changes can arise at many points throughout the product life-cycle, resulting in rework which can ripple through ...
Shin, Cliff // 2011
Conventional design processes have been successful the past decades. As our society becomes faster and more complicated, so customers’ needs are becoming more complex. Discovering insights about ...
Michiels, Pieter; Verthe, Becky; Saldien, Jelle; Versluys, Rino // 2011
This paper presents the concrete application of the INNOWIZ methodology in a design education context. This methodical philosophy is used as a structural backbone in teaching the product design ...
Sakao, Tomohiko; Paulsson, Svante; Mizuyama, Hajime // 2011
Product/Service Systems (PSS) has been addressed as an interesting research target in the engineering design community. Yet, an understanding of PSS design processes is scarce. Motivated by this gap, ...
Zeiler, Wim // 2011
The traditional way of designing in the Building Industry has to change to meet the new demands for a sustainable built environment by society. In order to enhance team design in the most crucial ...
Westphal, Christoph; Wartzack, Sandro // 2011
Providing the right product information at the right time is an important factor for an efficient product development process and especially for the evaluation of product properties. But due to the ...
Garland, Nigel Patrick; Khan, Zulfiqar Ahmad; Parkinson, Brian // 2011
In recent years there has been a drive to embed sustainable development into the Higher Education design curriculum. Within the UK this has been encouraged institutionally through the Engineering ...
Jacob, J.; Varghese, K. // 2011
Design process is complex in collaborative environments having large team size and many disciplines. Building design also has become sophisticated and schedules have been tightened. Building ...
Hatcher, Gillian D; Ijomah, Winifred L; Windmill, James F C // 2011
Remanufacturing is the process of returning a used product to like-new condition with a warranty to match. The efficiency and effectiveness of this process greatly depends upon product design; there ...
Stephan, Nicole Katharina; Schindler, Christian // 2011
During the last years the duties and responsibilities of engineering units in the vehicle industry changed drastically. Time pressure, cost pressure and the complexity of products are constantly ...
Pasman, Gert; Boess, Stella; Desmet, Pieter // 2011
o unlock an iPhone is just one example of a quality of an interaction that contributes to the phone’s user-friendly, playful and innovative character. However, envisioning such qualities in a early ...
Doyle, Kirsty // 2011
The purpose of this paper is to present the key findings on End of Life (EoL) decision making during product design, followed by a summation of the further research needed within the field. The ...
Fain, Nusa; Kline, Miro; Duhovnik, Joze // 2011
Changes in the business environment, responses of companies to these changes and the available information and communication technologies (ICT) pose a number of challenges to present and future ...
Ledsome, Colin // 2011
Design does not happen in isolation. Each design evolves from earlier work, is carried out in parallel with other designs, and influences later designs. The design process is an investment of ...
Gries, Bruno; Restrepo, John // 2011
This paper proposes that standard Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for project management are appropriate for measuring and monitoring Engineering Design Processes. A case study was performed to ...
Gopsill, James Anthony; McAlpine, Hamish Charles; Hicks, Ben James // 2011
Design teams within the High Value Low Volume (HVLV) industry are facing ever-increasing challenges in developing new products. This has been largely due to the paradigm shift towards Product-Service ...
Engelhardt, Roland Alexander; Eifler, Tobias; Mathias, Johannes; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
In its entire life cycle every product is exposed to different uncertainties. In technical systems, these uncertainties are generally understood as deviations from product and process properties. In ...
Oizumi, Kazuya; Kitajima, Kei; Yosie, Naoto; Koga, Tsuyoshi; Aoyama, Kazuhiro // 2011
As complexity of products, specifically mechatronics, increased, management of development project becomes difficult. For better management of product development projects, this paper proposes ...
Löfqvist, Lars Gunnar // 2011
arce resources, which is the main factor hindering their innovation and design of new products. Despite this resource scarcity, some small enterprises do innovate and design new products. The ...
Kreye, Melanie E; Goh, Yee Mey; Newnes, Linda B // 2011
The aim of the research presented in this paper is to propose a classification of the manifestation of uncertainty to offer a basis for a shared understanding and characterization of the concept of ...
Germani, Michele; Cicconi, Paolo; Mandolini, Marco // 2011
Machine design process requires the effective and rapid assessment of different design solutions. Beyond functions and technical performance other parameters as safety, manufacturability, ...
Petetin, François; Bertoluci, Gwenola ; Bocquet Jean-Claude // 2011
Innovation, however beneficial for a company, introduces risks proportional to the degree of disruption caused by the suggested innovation. Moreover, the new product development process Includes ...
Albers, Albert; Martin, Paul; Lorentz, Benoit // 2011
The presented paper focuses on modeling and simulation of electrical connector contacts’ behavior and associated design. New solutions are developed, based on the Contact & Channel Approach validated ...
Zadnik, Žiga; // 2011
ive model and criteria for describing products, functions and functionalities. The purpose of using the modularity of the descriptive MFF is to improve the initial design process where only the most ...