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A MODEL OF IDEA EVALUATION AND SELECTION FOR PRODUCT INNOVATION
Stevanovic, Milan; Marjanovic, Dorian; Storga, Mario // 2015
Product innovation is one of key strategic guidelines for sustainable business and competitive advantage. The process of innovation takes significant resources, and it is extremely important during ...
A SENSOR DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS FOR AUTOMATIC DRUM BEATER WINDING
Zhao, Yuchen; Johson, Teegan; Goh, Yee Mey // 2015
In the percussion music industry, drum beater manufacturing requires a skilled operator to manually wind the beater with acrylic yarn. Tacit skill is used to control and adapt tension during the ...
A SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT MODEL
VADOUDI, Kiyan; TROUSSIER, Nadège // 2015
There are major challenges for the designer to include Sustainable Development aspects into product design activities; particularly related to the social and wider environmental aspects. One way of ...
A WATER SAVING SOLUTION WITH A TRIZ BASED METHOD
Russo, Davide; Spreafico, Christian; Mores, Nicola // 2015
The number and breadth of eco-improvement methods has been steadily rising over the past deCADes. However a lot of eco-friendly product are struggling to find their collocation on the market. This ...
ADVANCED BUSINESS COACHING APPROACH IN COMBINATION WITH SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATION WORK TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS ENGINEERING PROCESS
Burchardt, Carsten. // 2015
Business coaching and consulting as a systemic constellation approach is a solution-focused process, which helps leaders of organizations to identify the complex, often informal, relationships and ...
AIDING DESIGNERS TO MAKE PRACTITIONER-LIKE INTERPRETATIONS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT RESULTS
Uchil, Praveen; Chakrabarti, Amaresh; Fantke, Peter // 2015
Detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provide tools to quantitatively illustrate the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle. Effectively interpreting the results of a detailed ...
AN APPROACH TO ANALYSING INTERFACE UNCERTAINTY USING THE CONTACT AND CHANNEL MODEL
Freund, Tillmann; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Lotz, Julian; Wuertenberger, Jan // 2015
The authors give a short introduction to uncertainty and introduce uncertainty terms for modular systems: Interface Uncertainty and Configuration Uncertainty. In order to control these forms of ...
AN INTEGRATED RFBSE MODEL FOR MANAGING AND REUSING ENGINEERING DESIGN KNOWLEDGE
Qin, Hao; Wang, Hongwei; Liu, Yusheng // 2015
Design efficiency has significant influence on a company s sustainable competitiveness. Reusing part of the previous product design can undoubtedly improve design efficiency, and thus the need of ...
AN INTELLIGENT DESIGN ENVIRONMENT FOR CHANGEABILITY MANAGEMENT - APPLICATION TO MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Benkamoun, Nadège; Kouiss, Khalid; Huyet, Anne-Lise // 2015
Design for system changeability and reusability has been sought by engineers from several disciplines. It has lead to the emergence of numerous strategies and paradigms. Especially in conceptual ...
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO EMBEDDING THE GLOBAL DIMENSION INTO ENGINEERING DESIGN: EMPATHY, ENGAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY
Hauke, Elizabeth; Cresswell-Maynard, Katie; Craddock, Daniel // 2015
Education, and specifically engineering design, has a lot to offer in our efforts to promote and achieve sustainable human development (SHD). A focus on SHD can be enhanced by non-disciplinary and ...
ANALYSIS OF THE PERCEPTION OF FUTURE DESIGNERS ABOUT USAGE SCENARIO INTEGRATION IN PRODUCT DESIGN (SIPD)
Royo, Marta; Mulet, Elena; Galán, Julia; Felip, Francisco; García-García, Carlos // 2015
It is expected that in the near future new products that would be able to adapt to different usage scenarios in order be more used will increase. For example, nowadays new modular smartphones are ...
APPLICATION OF SUBTRACT AND OPERATE METHOD FOR DEVELOPING FUNCTION ENERGY STRUCTURES OF PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS - A RULE-GUIDED APPROACH
Markos, Panagiotis; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2015
The relation between functionality and energy efficiency of products and systems is examined. An extended configuration of Function Structure scheme is proposed and named as Function Energy Structure ...
APPROACH FOR A COMPARATIVELY EVALUATION OF THE SUSTAINABILITY FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURED ALUMINUM COMPONENTS
Lachmayer, Roland; Gottwald, Philipp; Lippert, Rene Bastian // 2015
Nowadays new manufacturing technologies like the additive manufacturing in conjunction with the associated resources utilization requires a rethinking about sustainability. To continue the idea of an ...
ARCHAEONICS – HOW TO USE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS FOR MODERN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT.
Guertler, Matthias R.; Schaefer, Simon; Lipps, Johannes; Stahl, Stephan; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
This paper addresses the fact that product development often tends to "reinvent the wheel". By inventing the Archaeonics methodology / Archaeology-inspired-design (AID), we present a systematic ...
ARE WE ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS?RETHINKING POST-GRADUATE DESIGN EDUCATION TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Brass, Clare; Mazzarella, Francesco // 2015
Our society is currently facing complex challenges, such us climate change, loss of biodiversity, ageing population, unemployment, to name but a few. This has created growing expectations on ...
ASSESSING TIME-VARYING ADVANTAGES OF REMANUFACTURING: A MODEL FOR PRODUCTS WITH PHYSICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE
Kwak, Minjung; Kim, Harrison // 2015
For a successful remanufacturing, it is important to ensure in advance that a product is suitable for remanufacturing and that a remanufactured product will provide greater economic and environmental ...
ATTRIBUTES IN INTEGRATED DESIGN ENGINEERING - A NEW WAY TO DESCRIBE BOTH PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY AND BEHAVIOUR OF A PRODUCT
Vajna, Sandor J. // 2015
Integrated Design Engineering (IDE) is a human-centred and multidisciplinary development approach that integrates products and their lifecycle phases, processes, organisations, knowledge, and ...
BRINGING A FULLER SOCIO-TECHNICAL PERSPECTIVE TO DESIGN DECISIONS
Kokotovich, Vasilije // 2015
More often than not Designers and Design Engineers, tend to focus on Techno-physical aspects as they move through their design process. It is argued even the smallest and seemingly benign design ...
Classification of Forecasting Methods with Respect to Their Structure
Malhotra, S.; Das, L. K.; Chariar, V. M. // 2015
Forecasting and Future mapping are indispensible methods used by researchers, strategists, leaders and visionaries to know possibilities for future and make arrangements to get prepared for the ...
COLLABORATIVE PROCESS BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS ET LIFE CYCLE ASSESMENT: INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDÉRATIONS INTO EARLY STAGES OF DESIGN PROCESS
Rodriguez Moreno, Paulina; Rohmer, Serge; Ma, Hwong-Wen // 2015
Is in the early stages of design process where decisions can have most influence on the definition of product environmental performance. Nevertheless, is difficult to integrate environmental ...
COMPARISON AND CLASSIFICATION OF ECO IMPROVEMENT METHODS
Russo, Davide; Serafini, Marco; Rizzi, Caterina; Duci, stefano // 2015
The number and breadth of eco-improvement methods has been steadily rising over the past deCADes to include design for X methods and more problem-solving oriented software, based on the Russian TRIZ ...
CONDITIONS FOR THE PROMOTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
Hernandez, Maria Cristina; Podesta, Maria Paola; Bedoya, Beatriz Eugenia // 2015
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play an important role on the promotion and development of creative industries (e.g. product design companies). These roles, however, are not clearly defined. ...
CONSTANT DRIPPING WEARS AWAY THE STONE: LINKING DESIGN THINKING AND EFFECTUAL ACTION IN DESIGNING NEW VENTURES
Niedworok, Anja; Schloegl, Stephan; Mirski, Peter J.; Greger, Rudolf; Ambrosch, Marcus // 2015
In this paper we explore how to intertwine designers work and problem solving approaches with effectuation. At a first glance, establishing effectuation as the overlap between an entrepreneurial ...
DEGREES OF CUSTOMIZATION AND SALES SUPPORT SYSTEMS - ENABLERS TO SUSTAINIBILITY IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION
Gembarski, Paul Christoph; Lachmayer, Roland // 2015
For more than 20 years, mass customization proofed as valuable business strategy to manufacture goods tailored to a customer’s needs with nearly mass production efficiency. After pointing out key ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.