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Setting Environmental Targets in Product Development so that they Really Matter

Ölundh Sandström, Gunilla Christina; Ritzén, Sofia // 2009
An important factor for reaching environmental improvements in product development is to have relevant environmental targets that actually influence the product development process. In this paper are ...

Simulation of Acoustical Product Properties for Technical Systems in Virtual Environments

Husung, Stephan; Weber, Christian; Gramstat, Sebastian // 2009
Virtual Prototyping is an important tool to verify and optimize product properties in the early design phases. By using digital product models many simulations of the system behavior can be carried ...

Structural Description Method of the Sustainable Society Scenarios for Scenario Design

Mizuno, Yuji; Kishita, Yusuke; Yamasaki, Yasuhiro; Fukushige, Shinichi; Umeda, Yasushi // 2009
Today, many scenarios are described for envisioning sustainable society such as the IPCC's Emissions Scenarios. These scenarios often employ simulators provide a basis for their descriptions. ...

Student Facebook connections in a Global Project Based Engineering Design Course

Suzuki, Sushi; Leifer, Larry // 2009
In this study, thirty-five students in eight teams were surveyed on their use of different communication technologies during a two-week design exercise. In addition, the three teaching assistants ...

Supporting Product Innovation in Uncertainty Conditions: A U-SDSP Based Decision Making Approach

Polverini, Davide; Graziosi, Serena; Mandorli, Ferruccio // 2009
International competition intensification and product development process shortening have heightened the pressure to innovate, representing this issue nowadays a hallmark of all mature companies; it ...

Synergy between Engineering and Architectural Design

Zeiler, Wim; Savanovic, Perica // 2009
Design involves multi-disciplinary design teams to support this highly complex process. A supportive design approach is developed: Integral Design. This design process approach results in ...

Telling Design Stories: The Result or the Entrepreneuring Investigation

Karanian, Barbara A.; Kress, Gregory L.; Sadler, Joel // 2009
Understanding the parallel elements between the artistic desire that drives the design process and how telling stories drives new design elements is the focus for this preliminary investigation. Two ...

The changing role of the industrial designer with the growing sustainability imperative

Loy, Jennifer Elizabeth // 2009
How does the role of the industrial designer change in response to the sustainability imperative? In practical terms, how does sustainability affect what the designer does and the outcomes that can ...

The Concept of Product Properties and its Value for Research and Practice in Design

Birkhofer, Herbert; Wäldele, Martin // 2009
Design science has produced a lot of models, definitions, and terms, which may be highly useful for design research as well as design practice. Still this body of knowledge and insights is often ...

The future of design synthesis education

Acuña, Alejandro // 2009
The purpose of our research is to understand how industrial design students learn and formulate design synthesis and its relation to their own level of imagery. We also intend to understand how ...

The Integration of Systems Levels and Design Activities to Position Creativity Support Tools

Howard,Thomas; Culley,Steve ; Dekoninck, Elies // 2009
When beginning to investigate `creativity in detailed design' it becomes apparent that the literature and discourse regarding the terms; conceptual and detailed design are confused at a point or ...

The Main Mystifications Ingrained in Engineering Design

Sedenkov, Vladimir Michailovich // 2009
Amazing phenomenon of engineering design is that it manipulates with non-existent and yet to be called into being entities in the same way as with real objects (products and processes). Thus a ...

The P3 Platform: An Approach and Software System for Developing Diagrammatic Model-Based Methods in Design Research

Wynn, David C.; Nair, Seena M. T.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Many issues in design and design management have been explored by building models which capture the relationships between different aspects of the problem at hand. These models require computer ...

The Power of Prototypes in Foresight Engineering

Carleton, Tamara; Cockayne, William // 2009
Prototyping has long been a popular method in engineering and design practice. The continued use of physical prototyping is based on its strength in helping teams to make ideas tangible, iterate ...

The Process of Engineering Design: A Comparison of three Representations

Atman, Cynthia J.; Deibel, Katherine; Borgford-Parnell, Jim // 2009
Graphic representations that show how the design process changes over the course of solving a problem are powerful tools for researchers. This paper presents three such representations - timelines, ...

The Processnavigator – Flexible Process Execution for Product Development Projects

Faerber, Matthias; Meerkamm, Stephanie; Jablonski, Stefan // 2009
The development of new, innovative products is a company's fundament to achieve success on the long term. Processes have been successful to structure development processes, however no practical ...

The Product Development Process Roadblock that is Restricting the Widespread Adoption of Design for Sustainability

Lee-Mortimer, Andrew; Short, Tim // 2009
There is now growing pressure on manufacturers from all sectors, and of all sizes, to adopt Design for Sustainability (DfS). The aim of DfS is ensure that both the environmental impact, and any wider ...

The significance of purchasing behavioural characteristics on sustainable design education of students

Hunt, Clive; Reynolds, Tim James // 2009
More and more businesses appear to be adopting the societal (or sustainable) marketing concept as their business philosophy. This is an attempt to increase their competitiveness and promote their ...

Tolerance Analysis of Mechanisms Taking into Account Joints with Clearance and Elastic Deformations

Stuppy, Julia; Meerkamm, Harald // 2009
Geometrical deviations can influence the functionality of technical systems in motion. Geometrical deviations due to manufacturing discrepancies are limited by tolerances which are defined during the ...

Toward a Process and Method for Tracing the Development of Information Objects Used in Engineering Design

Storga, Mario; Darlington, Mansur; Culley, Steve; Marjanovic, Dorian // 2009
The work reported here builds on the framework for EDI development presented previously by discussing the requirements for information object traceability in respect of the context-bearing ...

Toward a Soft Computing Integrated Intelligent Design Framework

Zha, Xuan F. // 2009
In this paper, a novel integrated intelligent framework is first proposed for virtual product design and prototyping based upon the hybrid intelligent and soft computing techniques. Then, a ...

Towards a New Disciplinary Framework for contemporary Design Practice

Dykes, Tommy; Rodgers, Paul Anthony; Smyth, Michael // 2009
This paper argues for a consistent and new design specific disciplinary framework that will provide a better understanding of emergent design practice. Design today is characterised by a blurring of ...

Towards an Understanding of the Impact of Resources on the Design Process

Boyle, Iain; Duffy, Alex H.B; Whitfield, Robert Ian; Liu, Shaofeng // 2009
Considerable effort has been devoted within the design research community to understanding the structure of design processes and their development for different design problems. Whilst much work has ...

Towards Empirically-Derived Guidelines for Process Modelling Interventions in Engineering Design

Kerley, Warren P.; Wynn, David C.; Moss, Michael A.; Coventry, Gina; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Task-network modelling approaches are widely used to understand and improve product development (PD) processes. The best-practice application of these tools is often presented prescriptively. This ...

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