Englisch, U.; Sachse, P.; Uhlmann, J. // 2008
General principles of constructive design actions – based on the qualitative analysis of established conceptions and experts’ statements of technical and non-technical (artistic) design processes – ...
Hosnedl, S.; Srp, Z.; Dvorak, J. // 2008
The paper introduces theory and methodology developed on the basis of a “map” of Engineering Design Science, which proved to be a powerfull tool for efficient and effective cooperation for the two ...
Ensici, A.; Bayazit, N.; Badke-Schaub,P.; Lauche, K. // 2008
Nowadays, the majority of designers work as part of a team. During product development designers have to make countless decisions. Design decisions have a tremendous impact on the quality of the ...
Kihlander, I.; Janhager, J.; Ritzén, S. // 2008
The paper presents results from a retrospective case study in the automotive industry with the purpose to identify dependencies in product concept decisions taking into consideration social aspects, ...
Sedenkov, Vladimir // 2008
Hummels, Caroline; Frens, Joep // 2008
Lauer, W. M.; Lindemann, U. // 2008
In today’s very complex product development processes, a major problem is to provide engineers with the right information at the right time. Engineers need to search for existing product information ...
de Boer, R. J.; Badke-Schaub, P. // 2008
We propose as central theme of this paper that design team performance is affected primarily by a simultaneous occurrence of emotion in individual team members. That is, a design team will perform ...
Safin, S.; Leclercq, P.; Blavier, A. // 2008
In architectural design process, the human error has a particular status. The later it is detected, the more expensive it is. Moreover, some errors can not be detected given the current state of the ...
Rodgers, Paul; Anusas, Mike // 2008
Ferioli, M.; Roussel, B.; Renaud, J.; Truchot, P. // 2008
Innovation is incontestably one of the big responsible of companies' growth and a crucial element for competitiveness. It is proven that without a precise procedure, structured and based on ...
Zeiler, W.; Quanjel, E. // 2008
There is a growing awareness of sustainability that leads towards knowledge transfer and research between companies and the Dutch knowledge and research institutes within the building industry. The ...
Panetta, F.; Vigano, R. // 2008
Studies in design methods provide various procedural approaches to the design process. These methods are devoted to create a process able to aid the designer for finding suitable solutions of an ...
Howard, T. J.; Culley, S. J.; Dekoninck, E. // 2008
Creative idea generation is a vital part of the engineering and the new product development process. This paper is based on a number of studies which have analysed idea production during brainstorm ...
Bitzer, M.; Eigner, M.; Vielhaber ,M. // 2008
This paper discusses the correlation between characteristics of the design process and the determination of PLM architectures. Based on first results from ongoing research activities with industrial ...
Wu, Z.; Rollmann, T.; Anderl, R. // 2008
Information models can make a large contribution to the process integration, not only the product development process, but throughout the entire life cycle of a product [1]. The new technique of ...
Tiainen, T.; Ellman, A.; Syrilä, A. L. // 2008
In a product development process, designers try to understand what customers need and want. Especially in the case of personalized products, it is important that customers can describe what they ...
Faerber, M.; Jochaud ,F.; Stöber, C.; Jablonski, S.; Meerkamm ,H. // 2008
The development of innovative products has become crucial for companies nowadays. Engineers are facing many challenges while transforming requirements specifications into working products. Both ...
Syldatke, T.; Lutz, M.; Chen, W.; Hess, C. // 2008
Karlsson, A. // 2008
Manufacturing system design is a process that often results in sub-optimized systems with less than intended performance. It is therefore of outmost importance to base the design on factors ...
Zeiler, W.; Savanović, P. // 2008
To support multidisciplinary building design an Integral Design method is developed by combining a prescriptive approach, Methodical Design, with a descriptive approach, Reflective practice. The use ...
Eriksson, J.; Johnsson, S.; Olsson, R. // 2008
One challenge today for companies lies in finding the right approach to measuring and continuously improving the current state of a company’s product development process. The task of continuously ...