Langeveld, L.H. // 2006
Design with X is a method what can be used in design education for shortening course or improving quality of product design. Saving time is reached by avoiding irrelevance product concepts or design. ...
Wilgeroth, P.; Gill, S. // 2006
Wilgeroth, P.; Gill, S. // 2006
Ghorabi, H.O.A.; Wimmer, W.; Bey, N. // 2006
The Ecodesign Decision Boxes allow the implementation of environmental considerations in technical product designs and in the decisive early stages of the product development process. This systematic ...
Singh, B.; Matthews, J.; Mullineux, G.; Medland, A.J. // 2006
Computer aided design (CAD) has facilitated designer’s task by automating many of the activities involved in a conventional design process. This can be further augmented by use of constraints in CAD ...
Stanković, T.; Stošić, M.; Marjanović, D. // 2006
Within this paper an effort was made in presenting the reasons why evolutionary algorithms and especially genetic algorithm present suitable basis for creation of design tools which should aid ...
Möhringer, S. // 2006
The number of design errors in practice is increasing. Existing methodologies e.g. change process or quality management do not support the tracking of errors in a broad and continuous way. Every ...
Keller, R.; Eckert, C.M.; Clarkson, P.J. // 2006
Effective change management is a key to successful design development. As products and parts of products change, others can be affected, leading to further - often unexpected and costly - changes. ...
Bauer, S.; Paetzold, K. // 2006
Product development today is affected by a more and more pronounced curtailment of development periods in spite of the products' increasing complexity. The complexity there ist primarily arising ...
Howard, T.J.; Culley, S.J.; Dekoninck, E. // 2006
Creativity is an integral and essential part of the engineering design process. One of the under researched areas associated with creativity is the role that information plays in enhancing or even ...
Kälviäinen, Mirja // 2006
Wrzecioniarz, P. A.; Laska, D. // 2006
Diehl, H.; Lindemann, U. // 2006
Designers often put their conceptual sketches next to the computer monitor while remodelling their solution by means of CAD functions. During this process the designer frequently has to change his ...
Silva, A.P.; Fernandes, A.A. // 2006
The trend towards sustainable development is driving companies to adopt a broader life cycle perspective in produtct development. Within this context Life Cycle Cost Analysis models can be a decisive ...
Lévy, P.; Yamanaka, T. // 2006
Interdisciplinary approach is seen as solution for more comprehensive designs. However, interdisciplinary knowledge sharing encounters many issues, due to disciplinary ontology and human subjective ...
Horrigue, A.H.; Choulier, D.; Boudouh, T. // 2006
Knowledge sharing is a critical factor for collaborative design process. The effectiveness of interactions between agents in collaborative design teams depends on the effectiveness of knowledge ...
Chalupnik, M- J.; Eckert, C. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2006
The success of any manufacturing company depends ultimately on the effectiveness and efficiency of ist product development. However, "few development projects fully deliver on their early ...
Pavković, N.; Štorga, M. // 2006
We argue a need for a design projects’ repository as the core for supporting, sharing and reuse of design knowledge. Such software system should enable reusing the knowledge of a given domain, and be ...
Kreimeyer, Matthias; Braun, Stefanie; Baumberger, Christoph; Meiwald, Thomas; Petrovic, Kostanja; Bernitz, Max; Stüber, Nico // 2006
Galeta, T.; Kljajin, M.; Karakašić, M. // 2006
In a purpose to support the product development process through the ERP system, an appropriate product model should be accomplished and implemented. The paper represents product model suited for the ...
Griffiths, R.; Johnson, P. // 2006
The paper examines how two independent academic working groups consisting of the National Centre for Product Design Research (PDR) based at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, (UWIC) in ...
Maier, A.M.; Kreimeyer, M.; Herfeld, U.; Deubzer, F.; Lindemann, U.; Clarkson, P.J. // 2006
A core issue in integrating CAD and CAE environments is the coexistence of different perspectives: a topological one in embodiment design and a functional one in simulation. This places increasing ...
Bruno, F.; Luchi, M.L.; Milite, A.; Monacelli, G.; Pina, M.; Sessa, F. // 2006
The paper describes an industrial application of VR techniques in the field of Digital Mock-Up (DMU) analyses, reporting the results obtained with the development of a software application that ...
Rohde, D.; Bojčetić, N.; Stanković, T. // 2006
Changes in the world market dramatically influence industrial companies. The traditional understanding of how the companies view their product and the product’s role in the company business is ...