Buda, Andrea; Seppälä, Mikko; Coatanéa, Eric // 2011
One of the challenges in the early phases of a product development process is the need to make fundamental decisions regarding the selection of design concepts. The use of virtual prototyping right ...
Mathias, Johannes; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Eifler, Tobias; Engelhardt, Roland; Wiebel, Marion; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
Within this paper products are called robust, if uncertainties (property variations and disturbances) from production and use have no or little influence on the result during the use. In order to ...
Matthiesen, Sven // 2011
At the centre of the present contribution is the part of the engineering design process in which the embodiment design is created. On the basis of the author's experiences in industrial ...
Langeveld,Lau ; Wiegers,Tjamme // 2011
The design of products involves the whole design process from Design Research to a product. The uncertainty becomes certainty during the design process. Product models have functional relations ...
Cooper, S.; Allen, G.; Smith, R.; Billingsley, D.; Helgerson, D. // 2011
At the 10th DSM Conference, a team of ship designers working to document the naval ship design process was introduced to DSM methods. The design of a naval surface combatant ship is an extreme ...
Waanders, Remko; Eggink, Wouter; Mulder-Nijkamp, Maaike // 2011
Designers have always used sketching as an important tool in the design process. Sketching in this context is not a goal in itself but can be considered as a tool to make better designs. More and ...
Hölttä, Venlakaisa; Eisto, Taneli // 2011
Improving design communication in product development networks can lead to a better design process. This paper presents a new design communication structure in the buyer-supplier relationship better ...
Lenau, Torben; Mejborn, Christina Okai // 2011
In this paper we argue that use of collaborative design processes is a powerful means of bringing together different stakeholders and generating ideas in complex design situations. The collaborative ...
Eggink, Wouter // 2011
Since Jean Baudrillard, it has become apparent that we live in a world that is dominated by visual images. At the same time Anna Valtonen has argued that the design profession is shifting its ...
Vavik, Tom // 2011
This paper presents a framework for teaching the complexity of Universal Design (UD). At the Institute of Design at Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) the theme 'Universal Design' is ...
Kroll, Ehud // 2011
The popular systematic design process model prescribes functional decomposition and morphology as the main method for accomplishing the conceptual design phase. This approach exhibits some ...
Vukašinovi // 2011
The change in the curriculum at The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ljubljana, was an opportunity to influence the students’ perception of the design and the new product development ...
Bernardes, Mauricio Moreira e Silva; Kauling, Graziela Brunhari // 2011
Design is generally associated with the aesthetic and functional factor of products. However, since the 90s, this concept has changed and the meaning of this term has become more comprehensive. ...
Kirisci, Pierre Taner; Thoben, Klaus-Dieter; Klein, Patrick; Modzelewski, Markus // 2011
The aim of inclusive product design is to successfully integrate human factors in the product development process with the intention of making products accessible for the largest possible group of ...
Panarotto, Massimo; Törlind, Peter // 2011
Sustainability is a complex but extremely important issue. To achieve a new industrial revolution that focuses on sustainability, we need innovation. Just improving our technologies and our habits ...
Baeriswyl, Michael C.; Eppinger, Steven D. // 2011
The paper presents an approach to teaching design for environment (DFE) in the context of a product design and development course. The teaching method has been applied in our classes for graduate ...
Zhao, Shulin; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
This paper uses the concept of product properties to analyze three different dimensions a product development has to cope with: technical, cost and ecological requirements. Objective is to highlight ...
Linder, Emma // 2011
Current industrial practice requires industrial designers to perform a range of professional roles. In order to prepare design students for a variety of challenges posed by different industrial ...
McAlpine, Hamish Charles; Hicks, Ben; Tiryakioglu, Can // 2011
Whilst there exists a significant amount of work exploring the Personal Information Management (PIM) practices of various general groups of people (such as ‘knowledge workers’), or specific PIM tools ...
Ledsome, Colin // 2011
This paper aims to confront the problem of the apparent division in the design field and show ways for product designers and design engineers to understand each other better. In doing so, the common ...
Vukašinovi // 2011
There has yet been a lot of discussion on how important creativity is for the process of new product development. In the globalized competitive world of constant inflow of new consumer goods it is ...
Evans, Martyn David; Spruce, Jon // 2011
Much research has been conducted into the content of design curricula (Design Skills Advisory Panel, 2007; UK Design Skills Alliance, 2008) yet limited research has been undertaken into how early ...
Nielsen, Thomas Holst; Eriksen, Kaare Riise // 2011
The research field concerning optimizing product sound quality is a relatively unexplored area, and may become difficult for designers to operate in. In some degree, sound is a highly subjective ...
Gerber, Elizabeth // 2011
While scholars have studied what design practices accomplish, few have considered how people feel when enacting these practices and the implication of these feelings on design work. An eighteen-month ...