Estrada,Gabriela ; Lloveras, Joaquim // 2009
DFPYA is an approach focused in prevents assembly failures or issues since early design stages by identifying the potential assembly issues that product can experience based on customers and ...
Albers, Albert; Sedchaicharn, Korkiat; Sauter, Christian; Burger, Wolfgang // 2009
Defining a product architecture is one of the most important decisions during product development. Most researches in this field are focused on the modification of a product architecture, meaning ...
Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Steve; Larsson, Andreas; Larsson, Tobias // 2009
In today's highly competitive global markets, where products are driven by rapidly advancing technologies and the ever-increasing expectations of the customer, methods for identifying new ...
Kortler, Sebastian; Kreimeyer, Matthias; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Complexity in product design, e.g. in product architectures or process structures, continuously increases. To properly evaluate a complex system or to compare it to other systems, complexity metrics ...
Negroni, Daniella Yada; Trabasso, Luís Gonzaga // 2009
Several studies confirm the benefits of anticipating the problems that might occur in the products lifecycle to the conceptual phase of the integrated product development (IPD) process. The challenge ...
Onkar, S.Prasad ; Sen,Dibakar // 2009
Sketching has been the chosen method of expression of product ideas in the initial phase of product design.Existing CAD modeling systems do not support the early phases of design effectively. There ...
Devanathan, Srikanth; Sauter, Christian; Albers, Albert; Ramani, Karthik // 2009
In this article, we present a working knowledge model (WKM) that collates information from commonly used visual tools to support iterations in conceptual design of mechanical artifacts. The key ...
Salehi, Vahid; McMahon, Chris // 2009
This paper reports the first stages from a research programme into the application of parametric associative CAD systems adopting the Design Research Methodology (DRM) according to Blessing. The ...
Hernan, Pablo Casakin; Mastandrea, Stefano // 2009
The research studied aesthetic emotions and their relationship to architectural design styles. The goal was to see how people assess two contrasting design styles, namely Renaissance and Contemporary ...
Crowder, Richard Michael; Hughes, Helen; Sim, Yee Wai; Robinson, Mark // 2009
It is well recognized that an effective design process is contingent on the joint optimization of both the social and technical aspects of such an activity. Thus interactions between individual ...
Vittone, Riccardo; Montagna, Francesca // 2009
The New Product Development (NPD) process is characterized by numerous elements of complexity and firms face varied challenges in managing it. Because of the close link with innovative processes and ...
Bordegoni,Monica; Caruso,Francesco; Ferrise,Francesco; Ambrogio,Marco // 2009
In order to improve the performances of the overall design process of products, it would be beneficial the availability of computer-aided ools supporting conceptual design and simulation activities ...
Ahmad, Nm Wynn D. C.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Troll, Alexander; Zapf, Jochen; Rieg, Frank // 2009
Modern engineering in combination with an effective business can only be managed when there is an efficient way to handle modern tools supporting the product development process. With extended use of ...
Ding, Lian; Matthews, Jason; Mullineux, Glen // 2009
The use of constraint-based and optimization techniques have proven valuable throughout the design process. Environments for such techniques are becoming available as stand alone and add-on packages ...
Li, Chunlei; McMahon, Chris; Newnes, Linda // 2009
Collaboration among product designers, manufacturers and end users is a key factor for success in the design process. Effective concurrent design is determined by good communications. Design model ...
Germani, Michele; Raffaeli, Roberto; Mengoni, Maura; Graziosi, Serena // 2009
Flexibility is the main keyword in order to face the rapid changing market requirements. Companies need methods and tools in order to implement flexibility over the whole product development process, ...
Kroll, Ehud; Condoor, Sridhar S. // 2009
Systematic Design methods present a sequential model of conceptual design, whereby function structures are established, solution principles sought, and then combined to form the product concept. We ...
Wittmann, Stefan; Winter, Marco; Paetzold, Kristin // 2009
One crucial task of product development is the definition of tolerances to assure the fulfillment of functional and aesthetic requirements. It is extremely difficult to specify the necessary ...
Demoly, Frédéric; Gomes, Samuel; Eynard, Benoît; Rivest, Louis; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2009
Currently, product design is mainly influenced by customer requirements, i.e. designers are more and more focused to have a well-balanced product between function and form. However, other ...
Kilpinen, M. S. ; Eckert, C. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Impact analysis (IA) methods and tools support designers in determining the consequences of design changes. As such, the risk of unanticipated propagation of changes, in which an initiating ...
O'Rafferty, Simon; Curtis, Hannah; O'Connor, Frank // 2009
The role of design education is evolving due to structural changes in industry and society. These changes include the strategic positioning of design in business, new demographics of ageing, ...
De Lessio, Mark Philip; Wynn, David C.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
There is a complementary and bi-directional relationship between communication among design process participants and the planning activity in design. However, while often implied, this relationship ...
Medyna, Galina; Coatanéa, Eric; Millet, Dominique // 2009
Current environmental evaluation analysis methods such as LCA require detailed information about the studied product or process. This leads to uncertain or wrong results when applied during the early ...