Park, Jaehyun; Boland, Richard // 2011
Design innovation research has discovered a variety of features, forms, and functions; however, the importance of the design process has not been studied adequately. Designers and users have been ...
Punz, Stefan; Follmer, Martin; Hehenberger, Peter; Zeman, Klaus // 2011
During the product development process a lot of challenges have to be mastered. Beside ever shorter innovation cycles and time-to-market, products with increasing complexity such as mechatronic ...
Bokil, Prasad; Ranade, Shilpa // 2011
Design field, being interdisciplinary in nature, has some roots in ‘art practices’. Study of the medieval Indian art and crafts through the design perspective may open lot more opportunities to ...
Thomsen, Bente Dahl; Madsen, Klaus // 2011
The project 'Incentive to Form’ has identified a methodical approach, which has proved very suitable for keeping the design process alive. By a number of systematic attacks on preliminary works – in ...
Luckkana, Kailash; Patel, Varun; Negi, Vaibhav; Raipancholi, Harshay; Yola, Ivan; Dhunput, Ashvin; Kovacevic, Ahmed // 2011
European Global Product Realisation (EGPR) is an undergraduate group design project for the final year engineering students at City University, London. It involves collaborating with students from ...
Ensici, Ayhan; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
A common challenge in business life is the need to compose multidisciplinary teams to foster efficiency and innovative thinking by using different expertise on a problem or project. The research area ...
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 ...