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A multiple case study of small business upstream supply chain uncertainties in rapid productization
H // 2013
This study aims at highlighting the use of upstream supply chain in Rapid Productization (RP) by analyzing upstream supply chain practices in small firms. RP is a process of quickly supplementing a ...
An approach for cycle-robust platform design
Bauer, Wolfgang; Elezi, Fatos; Maurer, Maik // 2013
Product platforms are frequently applied in industry for designing product families. The product platform builds the basis for the derivation of the offered variants. As the platforms are ...
An approach to generate flexibility in engineering design of sustainable waste-to-energy systems
Hu, Junfei; Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Poh, Kim-Leng; Chia, Eng Seng // 2013
Designing an engineering system that is sustainable both environmentally and economically is a challenging and emergent task. This paper considers embedding flexibility into the engineering design of ...
An integrated screening framework to analyze flexibility in engineering systems design
Ranjbar Bourani, Mehdi; Cardin, Michel-Alexandre; Chong, Wen Sin; Atapattu, Ravindu; Foo, Kok Seng // 2013
This paper presents ongoing development for a novel integrated screening framework for flexibility analysis considering multi-domain uncertainty sources and multi-criteria for designing complex ...
Broadening assessment criteria and student awareness
Lindley, Julian; Adams, Richard // 2013
We all know the need for society and designers to create a balanced or sustainable future. That is to meet demands of all stakeholders, whether they fall into the economic arena, environmental ...
Challenges in the welfare sector â some educational perspectives
Keitsch, Martina Maria; Sigurjonnson, Johannes // 2013
The demographic trend in Europe shows a significant increase of the elderly population. A promising approach to alleviate challenges accompanied by this trend is welfare technology which aims, among ...
Clarification of sustainability consequences of manufacturing processes in conceptual design
Hallstedt, Sophie; Isaksson, Ola // 2013
In the conceptual design of aircraft jet engine components, not only the product architecture and dimensions are set but the associate manufacturing processes are also defined. From a design decision ...
Communicating life cycle assessment results to design decision makers: Need for an infomration visualization approach
Uchil, Praveen; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2013
Most of the design interventions made in the pursuit of reducing the environmental impact of products, often merely results in shifting the burden from one environmental issue to another, rather than ...
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 ...
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.