Samuel, Philip; Jablokow, Kathryn W. // 2011
A cognition based strategy for linking the variables that affect product design and development are illustrated with the help of a new Cognition-Based Design (CBD) framework. This paper briefly ...
Rio, Maud; Reyes, Tatiana; Roucoules, Lionel // 2011
Integrating environmental concerns as well as other constrains (cost, quality, etc.) in the design process, requires to organize the process as a system. Specific software for each design expertise ...
Thoring, Katja; Müller, Roland M // 2011
This article presents a formal model of the design thinking process based on Method Engineering. The foundation of our work is based on observations within an educational context - the 'School of ...
Sudin , Nizam Mohd; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema // 2011
Designing a good specification is essential as it contributes to a better overall design. A good design is possible if design problems are clearly defined, which in practice these problems are ...
Sharma,Anshuman // 2011
Software usability certification within a banking software organization is required to benchmark software for its usability and customer focus. This brings in a culture of consistent product ...
Kerley, Warren Peter; Armstrong, Gareth; Pepe, Carla; Moss, Michael A; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) software tools for design representation, analysis and optimization play a central role in aerospace engineering. Increasingly these tools are being integrated to ...
Maier, Anja M.; Störrle, Harald // 2011
This paper studies the characteristic properties of Engineering Design (ED) processes from a process modeling perspective. In a first step, we extracted nine characteristics of engineering design ...
Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
Energy efficiency is a topic of high importance in companies nowadays. As a knowledge deficit exists concerning the design of energy efficient products there is a significant need for comprehensive ...
Gramlich, S.; Kloberdanz, H.; Birkhofer, H. // 2010
The product development process is shaped by manual actions and decisions. A concept for a structured description of profile-structures (assemblies of branched sheet metal profiles) is needed as ...
Feldhusen, J.; Nagarajah, A.; Schubert, S. // 2010
This paper describes an approach to apply self organizing map (SOM) for the support of the developer to optimize the design process of adaptable products in the automotive supplier industry. The SOM ...
Rasoulifar, R.; Zhang, X.; Zolghadri, M. // 2010
The majority of design support tools focus on technical and managerial aspects of design. User integration in design process is an emerging dimension for the design of innovative products, ...
Nijkamp, Maaike; Garde, Julia // 2010
People buy products to express their desired identity and therefore prefer products that fit their own personality. The personality of products is created by implicit and explicit design features. ...
Abdullah, M. F. A.; Marshall, R. // 2010
Industrial design has a potential to support development of modular product. This research aims to develop a systemic approach to optimise industrial design in modular product design. A new framework ...
Carulli, Marina; Cugini, Umberto // 2010
The evolution from machines to systems and from objects to products has profoundly affected the meaning of the term “design” as the “role” of designers, and the new concept of industrial ...
Eguchi, Michiro; Okada, Takeshi // 2010
In this study, we investigate the design process of car making at a Japanese car company. Using 161 sketches that a designer produced during the car design process, we analyze which areas of the car ...
Arvola, Mattias // 2010
Quite often the product of design is assessed in interaction design education, but we need to develop criteria also for courses that focus on learning to conduct and manage the design process. An ...
Gongora, Layda; Dix, Alan // 2010
This article reports the findings of a study which comprised in depth interviews and an exercise using visual aids conducted at Philips research and Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands ...
Stoll, Tobias; Lauks, Christian; Meerkamm, Harald; Wartzack, Sandro // 2010
Methods to calculate the possible effects of assigned tolerances to key criteria of a product are widely used to assure high quality standards. The used algorithms of state of the art tolerance ...
Wynn, D. C.; Caldwell, N. H. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2010
As a result of easier and faster iterations during the design process, the management of design changes, their propagation and their impacts are likely to become increasingly important in future. ...
Kovacevic, Ahmed; Halai,Ashwin; Ghazihesami, Rouzbeh; Verdegver ,Javier; Gowree ,Erwin Ricky; Jeshani, Snehal; Valtera, Jan // 2010
A systematic engineering design process is recommended for use in industry. Still many design teams tend not to follow it and consequently their designs are not adapted to a customer needs. Even when ...
Krehmer, Hartmut; Westphal, Christoph; Harald, Meerkamm; Wartzack, Sandro // 2010
Aim of this contribution is to introduce a framework for an improved understanding of design iterations, which allows considering design iterations as being related to the product as well as to the ...
Röhner, Sebastian; Donhauser, Maximilian; Wartzack, Sandro // 2010
A design process is characterized by acquisition and processing of information or knowledge, respectively. The acquisition of information and knowledge can be direct, indirect or automatic. This ...
Platanitis, G.; Pop-Iliev, R.; Barari, A. // 2010
The process dynamics of a 3rd year design project are analyzed using DSM methodologies. First, the stability characteristics are determined. Then a sensitivity analysis is performed to compare ...
Röhner, Sebastian; Gruber, Georg; Wartzack, Sandro // 2010
Considerable efforts have been taken in the past decades to integrate design and manufacturing knowledge into the product development process. A common approach is to offer designers the support of ...