Query returned 1478 results.
DIGITAL REPOSITORY FOR DESIGN KNOWLEDGE REUSE
Firdaus, Mochammad; Wang, Hongwei; Qin, Hao; Liu, Yusheng // 2015
Many companies in the engineering sector are currently facing the challenge of producing accurate documentation which can be reused during design activities in order to support the life cycle of ...
ECO-EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS IN THE CONCEPTUAL PHASE
Midzic, Ida; Storga, Mario; Marjanovic, Dorian // 2015
In conceptual design phase, description of the final product solution is abstract, and there is the lack of information on product s environmental performance throughout its life cycle. Quantitative ...
ECODESIGN MATURITY MODEL AS A FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION TOWARDS ISO 14.001:2015 CERTIFICATION
Pigosso, Daniela C. A.; McAloone, Tim C. // 2015
Currently, the certification standard for Environmental Management Systems (EMS) ISO 14.001:2011 is under a major revision process, regarding its structure and requirements. The current draft entails ...
ENERGY EFFICIENCY ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Stoffels, Pascal; Vielhaber, Michael // 2015
Based on rising energy prices, stricter regulations of carbon dioxide emissions and a rising awareness for our environment, it is not sufficient to optimize energy consumption only during the ...
ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION OF IDEAS IN EARLY PHASES: A CHALLENGING ISSUE FOR DESIGN TEAMS
Leroy, Yann; Tyl, Benjamin; Vallet, Flore; Cluzel, François // 2015
In early eco-innovation phases, design teams need to assess the environmental relevance of ideas, and consequently, the evaluation stage becomes even more critical, subjective and uncertain than in ...
EXPLORING LASTING USER-PRODUCTRELATIONSHIPS, MEANING AND MATERIALITY
Green, Clare // 2015
Investigating lasting user-product relationships means looking essentially at post-purchase user
behaviour. This subject highlights meaning and symbolism in objects and questions the role ...
EXPLORING SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT ON INTERIOR DESIGN SOLUTIONS
Rashdan, Wael // 2015
The interior design industry consumes significant amounts of natural resources, making designers morally obligated to the planet and its inhabitants. Designers must consider sustainable solutions to ...
FACILITATING INDUSTRIAL ADOPTION OF DESIGN METHODS FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS
Matschewsky, Johannes; Lindahl, Mattias; Sakao, Tomohiko // 2015
In contrast to increasing evidence detailing both economic and environmental advantages of Product-Service Systems (PSS), the number of PSS provided in the market is still limited. Limited adoption ...
FIRING UP SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOUR
Daae, Johannes; Boks, Casper; Goile, Franziska; Seljeskog, Morten // 2015
For many products there is a substantial potential for reducing environmental impacts by altering the way people interact with them. The current work investigates the potential for improving the way ...
FORMULATIONS OF PARADIGMS OF TECHNICAL INHERITANCE
Mozgova, Iryna; Lachmayer, Roland; Gottwald, Philipp // 2015
The fourth industrial revolution is associated with changing production and design principles of machine parts. The purpose of this study is the development, elaboration and practical testing of an ...
FUTURE INDUSTRIAL DESIGN SPECIALISATIONS: A CENTRE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPOSITES
Trathen, Stephen; Pianca, Eddi; Montana Hoyas, Carlos; Shelley, Bill // 2015
This paper explores the potential to apply practice-led research findings to reforms in design
education. Recent research in design for sports highlights the need for optimum use of ...
HEURISTIC GUIDELINES IN ECODESIGN
Sarnes, Julian; Kloberdanz, Hermann // 2015
Guidelines, in the form of rules and instructions, are a commonly used support for analysis and synthesis in the field of ecodesign. This paper considers the heuristic nature of ecodesign-guidelines ...
HOW TO DEFINE A SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN SPACE
Hallstedt, Sophie // 2015
In order for a company to define a sustainability design space and become more sustainable it must know: what sustainability means; how sustainability can be achieved; and, how sustainability can be ...
HOW TO INCORPORATE SUSTAINABLE DESIGN IN THE INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN PROJECT SEMESTER PROGRAMME: INSIGHTS FROM PRACTICE
Verhulst, Elli; Rohaert, Sarah; Van Doorsselaer, Karine // 2015
Sustainable design is highly relevant for design and engineering education, as designers and engineers are the ones that shape the (future) world. They can support a move towards achieving ...
HOW TO INTEGRATE INFORMATION ABOUT PAST ENGINEERING CHANGES IN NEW CHANGE PROCESSES?
Wickel, Martina Carolina; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
When implementing engineering changes (EC) in companies many information about ECs and associated processes is stored and forgotten. However, an extraction of information about correlations in past ...
IDENTIFYING FLEXIBLE DESIGN OPPORTUNITIES: GETTING FROM A PROCEDURAL TO AN EXECUTION MODEL
Allaverdi, David; Herberg, Arne; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
An offshore drilling rig faces continuous need for upgrades especially due to significant uncertainty in all phases of the lifecycle. As in other application fields, rigid design usually prevails, ...
IDENTIFYING NEEDS FOR NEW ECODESIGN TOOLS WITH THE DSM VALUE BUCKET TOOL - AN EXAMPLE IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
Lamé, Guillaume; Leroy, Yann; Lasvaux, Sébastien // 2015
Although a large number of ecodesign tools is available to designers, adoption of these tools still seems limited. This is in part due to an inadequacy between ecodesign tools and designer's ...
IMPLEMENTING ECODESIGN PRINCIPLES IN PRODUCT DESIGN: THE ROLE OF USABILITY
Sousa, Ana M.; Sampaio, Alvaro M.; Simoes, Paulo; Oliveira, Raquel // 2015
The market growing saturation with products similar to the already existent ones or whose adaptation to a user revealed inefficiency, makes relevant the elaboration of projects that effectively bring ...
IMPROVING ORDER FULFILLMENT PROCESSES WITH MBSE
Westermann, Thorsten; Anacker, Harald; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2015
Highly customized products dominate in the mechanical engineering industry. Products like machine tools, food processing or packaging machines are characterized by a high complexity, a low quantity ...
IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS IN CLIENTS/SUPPLIERS CO-DESIGN PROCESS
Michelin, Fabien; Reyes, Tatiana; Vallet, Flore; Eynard, Benoît; Duong, Viet-Long // 2015
The integration of the environmental criteria in clients/suppliers co-design process becoMES an important issue owing to the growing influence of suppliers design choices on the clients products. ...
INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: PERCEPTIONS OF EXPERTS
Telenko, Cassandra; Wood, Kristin // 2015
Innovation and creativity research assists and enables designers to break the mold of everyday, expected designs and discover the delightful, but unexpected, meaning-rich, and radical through novel ...
INTEGRATED DESIGN OF DYNAMIC SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Allison, James T.; Herber, Daniel R.; Deshmukh, Anand P. // 2015
Recent advancements in the development and investigation of integrated methods for the design of dynamic engineering systems have made possible the achievement of new levels of system performance and ...
INTEGRATION OF USER KNOWLEDGE ACROSS THE LIFECYCLE OF INTEGRATED PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS – AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE RELEVANCE FOR PSS DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
Schmidt, Danilo Marcello; Preißner, Stephanie; Hermosillo Martínez, José Alonso; Quiter, Michael; Moertl, Markus; Raasch, Christina // 2015
Integration of user knowledge in corporate innovation processes enhances firm innovation performance. Despite the relevance of the topic, research on when to integrate user knowledge into corporate ...
INTERACTION DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY SYSTEM
Gaiardo, Andrea; Di Salvo, Andrea // 2015
This paper presents the results and the methodology carried out by the research group of the Department of Design and Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Turin the field of Interaction ...
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.