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ANNACON: Annotation with Constraints to Support Design

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 ...

Annotation in Design Processes: Classification of Approaches

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 ...

Approach for Managing Lean Product Design

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, ...

Aspects of Nonlinearity in Conceptual Design

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 ...

Assembly Simulation for Toleranced Parts: An Adaptes Path Planning Approach

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 ...

Assembly-Oriented Product Structure based on Preliminary Assembly Process Engineering

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 ...

Assessing Impact Analysis Practice to Improve Change Management Capability

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 ...

Capacity for sustainability: the changing contexts of design education

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, ...

Communication and Design Process Planning: Initial Insights from Literature and Industry Interviews

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 ...

Comparative Study of Environmental Evaluation Assessment Using Exergetic LCA Implemented in Existing Software and a Novel Exergetic Approach during the Early Design Phase

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 ...

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 ...

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