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Community design challenge, products striving from concept
Timmins, Bernard Anthony; Long, Siobhan; McQuaid, Noel // 2013
DITâs Product Design programme, Enable Ireland, and people with disabilities in the community have teamed together to create a unique Assistive Technology and Universal Design learning environment, ...
Concept for tolerance design in early design stages based on skeleton models
Ziegler, Philipp; Wartzack, Sandro // 2013
A noticeable trend in mechanical industry is that the product lifecycle and within the product development phase shortens. One consequence is the necessity to perform product-analyses already in ...
Conceptual design guide for energy and water consumptions
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2013
The present paper proposes to analyze the consumption of Energy or/and Water (E/W) in the conceptual design (CD) stage of a product, in order to optimize this consumption. The product normally spends ...
Continuous design FMEA â Proposal for a new perspective on FMEA
Andrade, Luiz Fernando Segalin de // 2013
This paper presents a method that assists in concept evaluation during the conceptual design phase, called the continuous FMEA tool. The use of this tool allows for better execution of integrated ...
Design for adaptability in multi-variant product families
Greisel, Markus; Kissel, Maximilian; Spinola, Benjamin; Kreimeyer, Matthias // 2013
Designing system structures for adaptability offers significant advantages for both customers and producers. But it is not simple, especially when the product is a highly complex product family, for ...
Design for durability - Designing with advanced ceramis
Usbeck, Anna Kerstin; Krause, Dieter // 2013
The demand of sustainable products - not only in transport, but in manufacturing and building industry - results to the necessary of improving the reliability. The MTBF-index (mean time between ...
Design for lifecycle profit with a simultaneous consideration of initial manufacturing and end-of-life remanufacturing
Kwak, Minjung; Kim, Harrison // 2013
Remanufacturing is emerging as a promising solution for achieving green, profitable businesses. This paper considers a manufacturer that produces new products and also remanufactures products that ...
Design for System Lifecycle Properties – Support of Planning Processes by Modularization of Stakeholder Networks
Schoettl, F.; Bauer, W.; Lindemann, U. // 2013
During the planning and development of large-scale systems an increasing number of stakeholders have to be involved to ensure a holistic consideration. System Lifecycle Properties (Ilities) become ...
Design process commonalities in trans-disciplinary design
Qureshi, A.J.; Gericke, Kilian; Blessing, Lucienne // 2013
Contemporary product development has transformed from being mono-disciplinary to increasingly trans-disciplinary. Technology convergence and specialization of the knowledge are two distinctive trends ...
Design with the developing world: A model with seven challenges for the future
Kuhr, Rachel Sara; Otto, Kevin; Sosa, Ricardo; Raghunath, Nilanjan; Holtta-Otto, Katja; Wood, Kristin // 2013
Design with the Developing World (DDW) brings a unique set of challenges as it asks people with very different expectations to collaborate on sustainable system solutions. Scoping for these design ...
Designing burial monuments to increase emotional awareness in product design
Stoltenberg, Einar; Berg, Arild // 2013
The motivation for writing this paper is the growing concern in society towards the amount of products we produce containing low utility and sustainability. Through emotional awareness the student ...
Designing training plans in creativity techniques for companies
Canina, Marita; Anselmi, Laura; Coccioni, Elisabetta // 2013
It is widely recognized that training in creativity techniques enhances the competitiveness and efficiency of companiesâ production processes. As well as contributing to self-fulfilment, ...
Development of the digital storage Fuon
Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi, Hesamedin; Schäfer, Thomas; Spielauer, Alexander; Aschinger, Gerold; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel // 2013
This paper ties to Fuon Theory, where functional icons are suggested to phrase standardized functional units. Having functional unit parameters at hand, products that can be described by these ...
Do user driven innovation and ecodesign enrich or fight one another, and does sufficient methodologies for combining the two exist?
Herskind, Mathies; Sidelmann, Kristian // 2013
This paper is a theoretical investigation and case study of the presently highly debated and much referenced terms ‘ecodesign’ and ‘user driven innovation’, with the aim of illuminating the ...
Eco-design guidelines and eco-knowledge integration in product development process
Rossi, Marta; Germani, Michele; Mandolini, Marco; Marconi, Marco; Mengoni, Maura; Morbidoni, Alessandro // 2013
The product eco-sustainability is recognized as a key factor for competitive products and recently lots of international directives (guidelines) have been issued. This paper aims to define a new ...
EcoM2 web portal: Collecting empirical data and supporting companies' ecodesign implementation and management
Pigosso, Daniela; McAloone, Tim C.; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2013
Despite the recognition of the potential benefits of ecodesign, a promising approach to integrate environmental concerns into the product development process, its application has failed to reach ...
Effectiveness of ecodesign methods in assisting SMEs towards market success
Bugali, Munire Hilal; Gulari, Melehat Nil // 2013
This study focuses on how design can help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) achieve sustainability through implementing ecodesign approaches. The literature review on sustainability and ...
Empirical analysis of product design with different times and interruption levels
Djaloeis, Bima Raymond-Sati; Frenz, Martin; Duckwitz, Sönke;Hinsch, Malte Sebastian; Feldhusen, Jörg; Schlick, Christopher Marc // 2013
Effective and robust engineering design processes are vital in early phases of a product life cycle, such as in product design. This highly dynamic field of work is influenced by many interacting, ...
Empirical evaluation of flexible design concept generation procedures: A study in emergency services
Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Ka-Ho Yue, Howard; Jiang, Yixin; Deng, Yinghan; Santhanakrishnan, Deepak // 2013
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of concept generation procedures enabling flexibility in engineering systems design. Evaluation of two educational training procedures (analogies ...
Encouraging sustainable urban access: an exploratory student approach to design of product service systems
Nikitas, Alexandros; Rahe, Ulrike; Karjalainen, Toni-Matti // 2013
Urban access is a key trans-disciplinary design axiom looking to ensure that every member of the society can reach those locations and resources one needs for a sustainable standard of living and ...
Environmental selection of materials for product end-of-life
Mascle, Christian; Deneu, Fabien // 2013
This paper presents research conducted on the environmental selection of materials for product end-of-life. The literature review establishes the state of art in the field of environmental material ...
Exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in design process
Allais, Romain; Tatiana, Reyes; Lionel, Roucoules // 2013
This article describes an exploratory study of the inclusion of territorial resources in a business's value-creating process through the application of a global and systemic ecodesign approach. ...
Exploring featherweight industry PLM solutions for academic use
Barrie, Jeff; Owen, Geraint // 2013
There is no doubt that PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions are improving data sharing and decision making during product development in industry and beyond. CAD (Computer Aided Design) and ...
Fighting poverty through design: Comparing design processes for the base and the top of the world income pyramid
Jagtap, Santosh; Larsson, Andreas; Hiort, Viktor; Olander, Elin; Warell, Anders; Khadilkar, Pramod // 2013
The base (BOP) and the top (TOP) of the world income pyramid represent the poor people and the people from developed countries, respectively. About two-fifths of the world population can be ...
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.