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Comparing the information content of formal and informal design documents: Lessons for more complete design records

McAlpine, Hamish Chales; Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Stephen // 2009
Even the most routine engineering design projects generate large volumes of formal and informal information by virtue of an ever-increasing variety of tools and systems. During the design process, ...

Concepts in Engineering Design — An Introductory Course in Design Offered in Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum

Krishnan,Kalyana R; Susy,Varughese; Prathap,Haridoss // 2009
“Concepts in Engineering Design” is a core course offered to all the rst year undergraduate students in engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. The primary objective of the course ...

Contact and Channel Modeling to Support Early Design of Technical Systems

Albers, Albert; Braun, Andreas; Clarkson, P. John; Enkler, Hans-Georg; Wynn, David C. // 2009
The early design of mechanical systems is critical because it constrains options later in the design process. In this early stage of the design process, designers must consider customer requirements, ...

Creating Brand-Innovation Synergy: Towards a Practical Method of Using Brands in the New Product Development Process

Keus, Martyn; Smulders, Frido; Roscam Abbing, Erik; Buijs, Jan // 2009
Brands are more than logos that are "stuck on" products after they have been developed. Before new product concepts are envisioned, brands exist - both in the minds of consumers, and in the ...

Cultural Influences on Design Processes - an Empirical Study

Gautam, Vivek; Blessing, Lucienne // 2009
Product development increasingly involves designers with different cultural backgrounds. This paper describes an investigation into the effects of these different backgrounds on the design process. ...

Dealing with Uncertainty in Design Practice: Issues for Designer-Centered Methodology

Daalhuizen, Jaap; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Batill, Stephen Marc // 2009
Design is at the core of successful innovation. While working on innovation projects designers have to deal with the uncertainty associated with complexity, multi-disciplinarity and outcomes that in ...

Decentralized Optimal Design using the Lagrangian Relaxation Approach

Li, Simon // 2009
To minimize the coordination efforts among design teams and expedite the design process via parallel workflow, this paper proposes a framework of decentralized optimal design. The framework consists ...

Decision-Focused Product Development Process Improvements

Eriksson, Joakim; Brannemo, Anette // 2009
Currently, there is little or no methodology or methods available to "process improvers" in product development which focus on decision-making fundamentals in order to improve the ...

Decision-making in Design: A Comparative Study

Almendra,A.Rita; Christiaans,Henri // 2009
This paper presents a comparative study of the design processes of nal-year industrial design students of 2 countries while conducting an individual design task. This task was identical for both ...

Deficiencies in Management of the Concept Development Process: Theory and Practice

Kihlander, Ingrid; Ritzén, Sofia // 2009
Concept development is a key success factor in product development and in theory concept development means that a number of concept solutions are generated and evaluated in an objective way using a ...

Definition of a Knowledge Representation Based on Functional CAD Models

Bluntzer, Jean-Bernard; Gomes, Samuel; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2009
How to merge the users' requirements into a complete design process has now become a reality. That is so in the automotive industry, from vehicle styling to specific facilities in connection ...

Describing Information Use In Engineering Design Processes Using a Diagrammatic Model

Grebici, Khadidja; Wynn, David C.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Methods and tools to support the design process should be based on an understanding of how design work is conducted in practice and how information is used in the design process. Therefore, the ...

Design and Innovation: Insights from a Consumer's Perspective

Teichert, Thorsten; Donder, Karina; Wagenfuehrer, Daniel // 2009
Design is able to emphasize a unique selling proposition for new products and thus constitutes a success factor for innovations. Yet it is recently incorporated as a major theme in marketing, ...

Design is a Physical Process, Too

Ballard, Glenn; Koskela, Lauri // 2009
The mainstream stand in textbooks on design and design management is that design is a problem solving process, starting from the perceived problem and ending to a detailed solution. We contend that ...

Design of Product Architectures in Incrementally Developed Complex Products

Wyatt, David F.; Eckert, Claudia M.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
This paper seeks to understand how product architecture arises and influences the design process, using a case study of a UK-based diesel engine manufacturer. Product architecture is defined as a ...

Design Processes and Novelty in Small Companies: A Multiple Case Study

Löfqvist, Lars Gunnar // 2009
This study explores the design processes in small established companies and investigates how these design processes are executed. How two different kinds of novelty influence the design processes is ...

Design Project Planning, Monitoring and Re-planning through Process Simulation

Wynn, David C.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Effective management of design schedules is a major concern in industry, since timely project delivery can have a significant influence on a company's profitability. Based on insights gained ...

Design Requirement Data and the Older Adult

Thomson, Avril Isabel; Carse, Bruce; Stansfield, Ben // 2009
It is well recognised that many products do not meet the requirements of the rapidly growing older adult population. The research described in this paper aims is to provide designers with relevant ...

Design Thinking Challenges in Education

Ericson, Åsa; Bergström, Mattias; Larsson, Andreas; Törlind, Peter // 2009
Product development processes are commonly represented in sequential models covering the necessary stages from planning to product rollout, while processes to take needs into the development ...

Design with Assembly — A New Approach

Langeveld,Lau // 2009
This paper describes a design method in which assembly activities are integrated in the conceptual phase of the design process. Most products designs need to be redesigned before they can be ...

Design: The Evolution of Information Punctuated by Decisions

Ullman, David // 2009
As design theory matures, it is becoming more decision-centric supporting the definition of design as the evolution of information punctuated by decisions. Current methods to support design ...

Designing Ergonomic Data Tools for Designers

Dong, Hua; Nickpour, Farnaz; McGinley, Chris // 2009
Ergonomics provides important user data for design. However, when interviewing designers about their use of data in the design process, we found that experienced designers' use of ergonomics ...

DesignWebs: Interactive Organizational Memory

Oberoi, Sharad; Finger, Susan // 2009
Knowledge generated during the design process frequently goes uncaptured, and when it is captured, it is usually poorly organized and buried in obscure documents. Effective capture of both semantic ...

Developing IDPEO - a Multidisciplinary Approach to Product Realization

Wiktorsson, Magnus; Wikström, Anders; Jackson, Mats; Ekman, Sten // 2009
On the background of a changing industrial landscape and key elements of the realization of complex integrated products, this paper discuss and explore an "innovative" approach towards ...

Boolean Searches

The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:

  • design community
    Find rows that contain at least one of the two words.
  • +design +community
    Find rows that contain both words.
  • +design community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”.
  • +design -community
    Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”.
  • +design ~community
    Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not.
  • +design +(>community <decisions)
    Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions”
  • design*
    Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”.
  • "some words"
    Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.

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