Mehta,Shashank // 2009
Application of novel design concepts and enterprising design practitioners are the need of the hour in contemporary India. As it is emerging as one of Asia's most prosperous economies, India ...
Estrada, Gabriela; Lloveras, Joaquim // 2009
During design process, in the clarification of the task stage, designers elaborate the product requirements list to establish the specification that product being developed must to comply with; even ...
Hansen, Claus Thorp; Dorst, Kees; Andreasen, Mogens Myrup // 2009
In the design methodology literature, design is often described as a rational problem solving process. This approach has been very successful; it has lead to the creation of design process models, ...
Ringen, Geir; Holtskog, Halvor // 2009
In the automotive industry product development has been a key for competitive advantage. Such projects are done in a value chain setting with many suppliers. The point of departure is a strategic ...
Shaja.A. S; Sudhakar. K // 2009
Engineering design process is used by engineers to develop products and comprises of enormous number of interdependent tasks. Literature shows that understanding the interaction of tasks is important ...
Gerber, Elizabeth // 2009
Design is a learning process in which new knowledge is constructed and used to shape the environment in ways that did not previously exist. Because design is about creating that which does not yet ...
Tang, Yao; Zeng, Yong // 2009
In this paper, a new approach is proposed to evaluate the designer's mental stress during the conceptual design process. Combined with designer's sketches, the proposed approach is based on ...
Bylund, Nicklas; Wolf, Mathias; Mazur, Glen // 2009
A cutting tool producer aims to reduce the lead time from finding customer needs to achieving peak sales. There are many approaches to improving a company's new product development process in ...
Keller, Alexander; Binz, Hansgeorg // 2009
Based on a literature research on engineering design research, engineering design methodologies and their development, requirements on engineering design methodologies are reasoned, grouped into a ...
Sperandio, Severine; Robin, Vincent; Girard, Philippe // 2009
Innovation or New Development Product (NPD) corresponds to the application of new and creative ideas. The innovation process is always a rhythm of search and selection, exploration and synthesis, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...