Stilma, Margot // 2010
Industrial Design Engineering is a very interesting working field to perform in-depth research. To students, unfortunately, these possibilities are not always known. Therefore, a course set up ...
Dowlen, Chris // 2010
It is advantageous for designers, researchers and educators to develop forms of knowledge maps to determine a multiplicity of processes. These knowledge maps, or epistemologies, can start to provide ...
Zwierczyk, Peter T.; Horváth, B.; Fejér, T.; Váradi, Prof. Dr. K. // 2010
This paper involves the design process of a roller bench which helps the rehabilitation of people in wheelchairs from the first steps to the final design. After the determination of the requirements ...
Tollestrup ,Christian // 2010
How can you improve and focus on the knowledge produced through a design project by design students? The range of skills and competencies in design education is not limited to the ability to
handle ...
Husung, S.; Kästner, T.; Weber, C.; Höhne, G.; Brix, T. // 2010
This paper deals with introducing extended audio-visual VR technologies into product development process. It will be shown that, in order to provide product models fit for design purposes, first some ...
da Silva Vieira, S.; Badke-Schaub, P.; Fernandes, A. A.; Fonseca, M. T. // 2010
The purpose of the present transdisciplinary research is to identify how designers’ characteristics and behaviour ascertain different approaches to the design process towards understand design ...
Wang, Z.; Magee, C.L. // 2010
Both in the deterministic and random DSM cases, the dynamics of a coupled design process is captured by a linear difference equation. Namely, the workload of a design task in the current design ...
Zeiler, W.; Savanovic, P. // 2010
Collaboration within design teams is the key to improvement of the building design process. We use the morphological overview as a tool for visualization the interaction between designers as an ...
Mclening, Christian; Buck, Lyndon // 2010
This study examines the effect of individual character types in design teams through case studies at ARUP associates and five United Kingdom university design degree programmes. By observing an ...
Hansen, Z. N. L.; Ahmed-Kristensen, S. // 2010
This paper investigates the impact on the product development process when a company offshores or outsources a part of it abroad. Data was collected through interviews conducted in five companies. ...
Sudin, M. N.; Ahmed-Kristensen, S.; Andreasen, M. M. // 2010
The role of design specification in the design process is recognised as significant because it helps design engineers to proceed from the abstract to the concrete solution so as to fulfill the aim of ...
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Habil. Bercsey, T.; Szélig, N.; Vidovics, B. // 2010
The paper gives an overview on a new approach to estimate the time need of a design process. The product structure is identified by using a DSM, from which not only the components, but the design ...
Schotborgh, W. O.; Kokkeler, F. G. M.; McMahon, C. A.; van Houten, F. J. A. M. // 2010
This paper proposes a methodological approach to knowledge acquisition and modelling. The source of the knowledge is considered to be an expert designer. The content of this paper focuses on the ...
Kim, K. M.; Lee, K. P. // 2010
This paper introduces a new perspective to product design approach. Two disciplines involving in product design process, engineering design and industrial design are reviewed. They are characterized ...
Kovacevic, Ahmed; Gowree, Erwin Ricky; Ghazihesami, Rouzbeh; Verdegver, Javier; Halai, Ashwin; Jeshani, Snehal; Valtera, Jan // 2010
EGPR (European Global Product Realisation) is an undergraduate group design project for final year engineering students at City University. The learning outcomes of this project are to equip students ...
Leibl, Peter // 2010
In the literature, there are a lot of descriptions regarding both the development process and the methods for the product design. These fields were optimized over the decades for the design of new ...
Ariyo, O.; Heisig, P.; Wilson, P.A.; Harnden, M.; Clarkson, P.J. // 2010
In this research, a qualitative investigation was carried out to assess the value of using connectivity models in design reviews. The study looked into the use of the model by multi-disciplinary ...
Kortler, S.; Helms, B.; Berkovich, M.; Lindemann, U.; Shea, K.; Leimeister, J.M.; Krcmar, H. // 2010
In development processes, the requirements engineering (RE) plays a vital role: It is “the process of discovering the purpose of the system-to-be, by identifying stakeholders and their needs, and ...
Fathallah, A.; Stal-Le Cardinal, J.; Ermine, J. L.; Bocquet, J. C. // 2010
Many managers use models to understand the main processes of their companies but also to take the right decisions to enhance the performances. Numerous researches have been carried out on enterprise ...
Follmer, M.; Hehenberger, P.; Punz, S.; Zeman, K. // 2010
Mechatronic products consist of solutions from disparate engineering disciplines. As a consequence, the respective “mechatronic design process” has to comply with the integration of these ...
Wikström, Anders // 2010
There is a keen need for research within the area of product development. The use of visualizations in the development process, especially, is often unstructured and ad hoc. By focusing on the ...
Greene, Richard Tabor // 2010
This paper reports pilot study results on 3 things: a) Creativity Models as a Possible Language of Design--- designers and others segment detailed protocols of actual design processes at points where ...
Noweski, Christine; Meinel, Christoph // 2010
In design thinking, theory and practice are closely interconnected. The theory serves as a blueprint, guiding companies in general and design teams in particular through the design process. Given ...
Gries, Bruno; Gericke, Kilian // 2009
When a company tries to improve its product development process one of the first challenges is to become clear about two things: what "improvement" means and where within the overall ...