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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 ...
DESIGN FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: USEFULNESS OF RE-USE?
Walsh, Edwin Peter; Daems, Walter; Steckel, Jan; Peremans, Herbert; Baelus, Christiaan // 2015
Due to an increased need for Assistive Technology (AT) applications, governmental interest into reducing the total cost of providing AT applications is growing. A commonly reported high rate of AT ...
DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE: AN ELABORATION-BASED APPROACH TO PERSUASION IN PRODUCT DESIGN
Montazeri, Soodeh; Panos, Papalambros; Rich, Gonzales // 2015
This paper investigates the premise that products can be designed in a principled persuasive way to induce behavior change; specifically it explores how designers can adopt behavior change theories ...
DESIGN FOR RECOVERY - APPLYING MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS TO DEFINE GROUPINGS OF FRENCH WEEE PRE-TREATMENT OPERATORS
Alonso Movilla, Natalia; Zwolinski, Peggy // 2015
Electronic appliances can follow different pre-treatment processes once they reach their end-of-use phase. To ensure their best recovery, their design has to meet the needs of the operators that are ...
DESIGN FOR RETROFITTING
Coenen, Jenny; Ruiz, Valentina; Fernandez Hernando, Jose Manuel; Frouws, Koos // 2015
This paper explorers the possibilities to design a ship for a future 'sea change' like a major retrofit of the engine room. In order to assess the potential future beneficial impact of such design ...
DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY – TRADE-OFF DILEMMAS FROM THE CONSUMER PERSPECTIVE
Shiu, Eric // 2015
Product designers always look at the functionality and aesthetics aspects when deciding on the features and appearance of a new product. More recently, as the environmental issue becoMES increasingly ...
DESIGN METHODOLOGY APPLIED FOR PRODUCT INNOVATION IN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROJECT – A CASE STUDY
Almefelt, Lars; Claesson, Anders // 2015
This paper takes its departure in the results of a research project aiming to develop resource-economic and lightweight car concepts and subsystems, as well as to stimulate cross-company business ...
DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Devadula, Suman; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2015
A Circular Economy (CE) values material, technical or biological, as nutrient. CE thinking seeks to accelerate the conversion of technical nutrient cycles along the lines of biological nutrient ...
DESIGN-FOR-MANUFACTURE OF SHEET-BULK METAL FORMED PARTS
Breitsprecher, Thilo; Sauer, Christopher; Sperber, Christian; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Sheet-bulk metal forming (SBMF) is an emerging and sustainable manufacturing technology that offers potential both for shortening process chains and for designing new geometry features that enable ...
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.