Query returned 1414 results.
A FRAMEWORK FOR DESIGNING PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS
Annamalai Vasantha, Gokula Vijaykumar; Hussain, Romana; Roy, Rajkumar; Tiwari, Ashutosh; Evans, Stephen // 2011
In this competitive globalizing scenario, manufacturers are adopting a strategy of bundling products and services into an integrated solution to create sustainable competitive advantage. Servitizing ...
A METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE THE STRUCTURAL ROBUSTNESS OF PRODUCT CONCEPTS
Kissel, Maximilian; Hellenbrand, David; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
The success of a company is sustainably dependent on the robustness of their products. Product concept should be designed adaptable for initiated changes but resistant against unforeseen changes. But ...
A PROCESS OF CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING DESIGN FOR NEW PATENTABLE PRODUCTS
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
The conceptual design phase is a few-structured phase, and it is especially true for to create a new product that can be patented. In this paper is proposed a procedure to do a conceptual design ...
A Proposal For an Augmented DSM to Assess Product Sustainability
Rocco, C.; De Napoli, L.; Rizzuti, S. // 2011
The paper proposes an extension of the Design Structure Matrix to support designers in a rough sustainability evaluation of an industrial device in the early stage of its development.
The ...
ADAPTING AEROSPACE DESIGN RATIONALE MAPPING TO CIVIL ENGINEERING: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
Eng, Nathan Lee; Marfisi, Emanuele; Aurisicchio, Marco // 2011
A pilot study of aerospace design rationale capture methods in civil engineering was performed to improve support for information management and systems thinking. Deploying software-based methods in ...
AN ETHICAL STANCE: ENGINEERING CURRICULA DESIGNED FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
de Vere, Ian; Melles, Gavin; Kapoor, Ajay // 2011
Engineering must provide the global community with socially responsible, ethical and sustainable design solutions. The potential for engineering designers to contribute positively to the betterment ...
Analysis and Visualization of Complex Computer Aided Design Models as a Design Structure Matrix
Bhaskara, S. // 2011
Computer Aided Design (CAD) Systems are large and complex software systems with feature-based solid modelling, NURBS surfaces, sketching, and constraints management functionality and capture ...
Application of QFD for Enabling Environmentally Conscious Design
Rathod,Gopinath ;Vinodh,S; Madhyasta.U. R // 2011
Increasing competition among themanufacturing organizations recognizes environmental consciousness as an important concept for surviving in the competitive world. Environmental friendliness has ...
Boost Business by Design
Lockwood, Joseph Benjamin; McAra-McWilliam, Irene; Reid, Iain // 2011
‘Creating Cultures of Innovation’ is a unique project that works with Scottish Industry to embed creativity as a collective skill within organisations. Supported by the Scottish Funding Council and ...
BUSINESS PLANS INFORMED BY DESIGN
Petersen, Soren Ingomar; Heebøll, John // 2011
Today the value created by applying design at a business model and innovation level as opposed to a design and process level is marginal. Interviews with product developers from academia and industry ...
CAN DESIGNERS BE PROACTIVELY SUPPORTED AS FROM PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS?
Galea, Amanda; Borg, Jonathan; Grech, Alexia; Farrugia, Philip // 2011
During the design process, designers are concerned with two main types of issues - issues related to “what needs to be achieved” or “whats” and issues related to “how these needs will be met” or ...
Commercivity
Childs, Peter; Fountain, Rod // 2011
Creativity can be defined as the ability to imagine or invent something new of value. In the engineering domain, for example, in common with many workplace and social experiences, creativity is both ...
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THEORETICAL AND REAL USES OF ECO-DESIGNED LAUNDRY DETERGENTS
Chapotot, Emilie; Abi Akle, Audrey; Minel, Stéphanie; Yannou, Bernard // 2011
Directions for use given by manufacturers of consumer products are often based on ideal conditions of use. However, each user is different and has complex user characteristics which may impact the ...
CONSIDERATION OF GOAL INTERRELATIONS IN LIFECYCLE-ORIENTED PRODUCT PLANNING
Hepperle, Clemens; Förg, Armin; Mörtl, Markus; Lindemann, Udo // 2011
Within the innovation process the phase of product planning plays an important role in order to deduce consistent product disposals to be developed and produced by the company. Demands and ...
Creative Experiences of Product Engineering Design Teaching and Company-University Agreements
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2011
The strategies of project style and creativity have been applied in teaching and in agreements between companies and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), in the School of Industrial ...
Creative Lean Design Process
Verma,Kumar Alok; Das,Kumar Lalit ; Erande,Surendra Ameya // 2011
Use of lean principles in product design process reduces time and cost of designs but it does not look at creativity in design. Creativity in design process is one of the important parameters ...
Decision Support Tools for Sustainability in Product Innovation in a Few Swedish Companies
Thompson,W.Anthony; Lindahl,Pia; Hallstedt,Sophie; Ny.Henrik ; Broman,Göran // 2011
Companies are finding that customers increasingly demand “sustainable products” while also noticing economic benefits from eco-efficiency and other sustainability-related design approaches. Employees ...
DESIGN DRIVEN PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Petersen, Soren Ingomar; Steinert, Martin; Beckman, Sara L. // 2011
Design practice and anecdotal evidence point to the existence of a chasm between business plan generation and the execution. The failure to including vital industrial design criteria in these plans ...
DESIGN FOR DIAGNOSIS
Stetter, Ralf; Phleps, Ulrike // 2011
Until now a large series of helpful guidelines for the design of products in the more concrete stages of design and product development were generated and published under the notion design for X, ...
Design for Ramp-up komplexer Produkte am Beispiel der Flugzeugindustrie
Elstner, Steffen; Krause, Dieter // 2011
The production ramp-up represents more and more a critical point in the product life cycle. The ability to launch a product into the market under cost-, time- and quality-pressure, is an important ...
Design for the Base of the Pyramid: Issues and Solutions
Jagtap,Santosh; Kandachar,Prabhu // 2011
Over the past several years, the design and development of products and services for the ‘Base of the Pyramid’ (BoP) markets has been investigated by several authors from different disciplines. A ...
Design for X-Guidelines and Lifecycle Phases with Relevance for Product Planning – a MDM-Based Approach
Hepperle, C.; Biedermann, W.; Böcker, A.; Lindemann, U. // 2011
Frontloading an integrated systems understanding to the early stages within the innovation process prevents from unnecessary changes in the later phases of the product lifecycle. In this context, ...
DESIGN SUPPORT TOOLS FOR PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS
Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Sang Won; Lee, Jee-Hyong; Han, Dae Man; Lee, Hye Kyung // 2011
This paper discusses design support tools for product-service systems (PSS). During PSS design process comprising six phases such as requirement identification and value targeting, stakeholder ...
DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE: USING A DELPHI STUDY TO IDENTIFY RESILIENCE ISSUES FOR HOSPITAL DESIGNS IN A CHANGING CLIMATE
Masko, Mary Lou; Eckert, Claudia M.; Caldwell, Nicholas H.M.; Clarkson, P John // 2011
Hospitals are facing a triple challenge - meeting mandatory climate change targets and refurbishing aging infrastructure while simultaneously providing quality of care. With the potential of more ...
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.