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DESIGNING SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY SCENARIOS USING FORECASTING
Mizuno, Yuji; Kishita, Yusuke; Wada, Haruna; Hirosaki, Maki; Fukushige, Shinichi; Umeda, Yasushi // 2011
Environmental problems such as resource depletion or climate change are the most serious problems for society and industry. In order to deal with such problems, scenario writing is a useful ...
DEVELOPING AN ECOLOGY OF MIND IN DESIGN
Dewberry, Emma Louise // 2011
The relationship between design and sustainability (DfS) is forever evolving: from the early focus on cleaner production processes and resource efficiencies to more recent endeavours to promote ...
DEVELOPMENT OF MODULAR PRODUCTS UNDER CONSIDERATION OF LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN
Gumpinger, Thomas; Krause, Dieter // 2011
Whether it is the reduction of complexity during development or the individual configuration for the consumer, modular products do offer many benefits throughout their product lifecycle. Hence it is ...
Development of Transmission Specifications for an Electric Vehicle
Mahala, K.Manoj ; Deb,Anindya // 2011
At present, a great deal of efforts are on to develop personal modes of transportation such as an electric vehicle (EV) with potentially a higher degree of sustainability as compared to a ...
E-Waste Generation from Mobile Phones and Sustainability Issues for Designers
Yammiyavar,G.Pradeep; Kumar,Vikash // 2011
Recent contribution of mobile phones as e-waste generators is a matter of concern due to the product’s shorter lifespan, large disposal volume, toxic nature of materials, higher energy requirement at ...
E3 VALUE CONCEPT FOR A NEW DESIGN PARADIGM
Kim, Yong Se; Cho, Chang K.; Ko, Young Dae; Jee, Haeseong // 2011
In this paper, the E3 value concept composed of economical, ecological, and experience values is proposed. Economical values include cost reduction and income enhancement which can be achieved by ...
Eco-Innovation and Advanced CAD within an Industry+Academia+Consultancy Collaboration: An Integrative ID Studio Case Study in the Australian Context
Montana Hoyos, Carlos Alberto; Pianca, Eddi; Trathen, Stephen // 2011
This paper discusses an “industry+academia+consultancy” collaboration between Australian electric appliance manufacturer Breville, the 3rd year industrial design studio of the University of Canberra ...
ECODESIGN IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN CONSULTANCIES – COMPARING AUSTRALIA, CHINA, GERMANY AND THE USA
Behrisch, Johannes Christoph; Ramirez, Mariano; Giurco, Damien // 2011
This paper presents the results of an empirical study, investigating the uptake of ecodesign by industrial design consultancies (ID consultancies) in Australia, China, Germany and the USA.
There ...
EcoDesign: A Retrofit Design Concept for 3-Axis Gantry, Compatible to Nd: YAG Based Pulse Laser
Deshmukh,Bhagyesh; Khond, Mohan // 2011
A wide range of precision Laser Machine Tool is available in international market. Majority of these have a part positioning system of a range of 200 × 200 × 50 mm and resolution of 50–100 micron. ...
Emotional Eco-modernism: Is Using Bamboo Really Enough?
Shin, Cliff; Benson, Eric; McDonagh, Deana // 2011
Sustainability as a concept has begun to be more fully integrated into the American undergraduate design curricula. Our design students are more aware than previous generations of the increasing need ...
ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENT FOR PRODUCT INNOVATION
Bitzer, Michael; Vielhaber, Michael // 2011
Product innovations and the competence to innovate are key success factors for any industrial enterprise. When looking inside product development departments, time, cost and quality are generally the ...
ENHANCING INTERMODAL FREIGHT TRANSPORT BY MEANS OF AN INNOVATIVE LOADING UNIT
Klingender, Max; Jursch, Sebastian // 2011
Aim of the project “TelliBox - Intelligent MegaSwapBoxes for advanced intermodal freight transport” has been to develop and prototype a new intermodal loading unit by an international consortium. ...
Enhancing the Selection of Methods for Customer Integration
Fähling,Jens; Langer,Stefan; Schölkopf, Michael Jan; Leimeister,Marco Jan; Krcmar,Helmut; Lindemann,Udo // 2011
Basic aim of innovating is to provide products and solutions meeting the expectations and needs of their customers and stakeholders.Therefore, customer integration methods provide means to integrate ...
Evaluating Environmental Impacts of Sand Cast Products Using Life Cycle Assessment
Joshi,Durgesh; Modi,Yashwant; Ravi.B // 2011
Global casting production is estimated to be over 100mT by the end of 2010. Sand casting is the most widely used process and accounts for 90% of all castings produced of which 95% belong to three ...
Evaluating the Effect of Harvesters on Sustainability— A Design Study
Ramani,K; Mani,Monto // 2011
Conventionally technology responds, through design, to a pre-defined set of requirements or functionalities to be effectively integrated in a product/devise. The functionality is usually in response ...
EVALUATION OF SOLUTION VARIANTS IN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN BY MEANS OF ADEQUATE SENSITIVITY INDICES
Eifler, Tobias; Mathias, Johannes; Roland, Engelhardt; Marion, Wiebel; Hermann, Kloberdanz; Birkhofer, Herbert; Bohn, Andrea // 2011
Every engineering product is exposed to a multitude of uncertain influencing factors during the different stages of its life cycle. While much effort is invested to deal with this uncertainty during ...
Extending the Life Cycle of Under-Utilized Urban Scrap Through Sustainable Design Approach
Kumar ,Prakash; Chakrabarti,Debkumar // 2011
The desire of urban population to acquire better products has lead to under utilization of in-use products and household goods like clothes, shoes, bags, etc, which finally turn into a usable waste. ...
EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING COMPLEX SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Liang, Helen; Birch, David // 2011
The advent of computer-based tools to aid the design process has meant that larger set of design parameters can be taken into consideration. It also means that other factors, such as those associated ...
Future-Proof Interfaces: Systematic Identification and Analysis
Bauer, W.; Maurer, M. // 2011
A system’s functionality is often realized by interaction of many independent products. The interoperability can cause problems in management and design, because these products possess different life ...
GETTING TO SUSTAIN (-ABLE SYSTEMS) VIA USING SURVIVABLE AND IMPOSE-ABLE ONES
Greene, Richard Tabor // 2011
A question posted to MIT allumni on Linkedin attracted responses by 371 engineers about what their engineering education lacked. Part of that data presented a crowd-sourced new theory of sustainable ...
GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT BY A CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION APPROACH – APPLICATION TO SHIP-ECODESIGN
Larroude, Vincent; Yvars, Pierre-Alain; Millet, Dominique // 2011
After demonstrating the feasibility of the inversion of a ship emission model with the CSP approach, we will now discuss about the optimization of emissions. In a first time, a single-objective ...
HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM CONCEPT GENERATION
Rosenstein, David; Reich, Yoram // 2011
The most important stage in a product life cycle is the conceptual design which involves uncertainty but also opportunity. The SOS method of generating product design alternatives [1] is expanded ...
IMPACT OF MODULARISED PRODUCTION ON PRODUCT DESIGN IN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Walla, Waldemar Paul; Baer, Thomas; Ovtcharova, Jivka // 2011
During the last decades, the product life cycle in the automotive industry decreased from 10 to 6 years or even less. At the same time the demand for individualized and configurable cars has ...
IMPLEMENTING DESIGN CRITIQUE FOR TEACHING SUSTAINABLE CONCEPT GENERATION
Bernstein, William Zev; Ramanujan, Devarajan; Cox, Monica F; Zhao, Fu; Sutherland, John W; Ramani, Karthik // 2011
Product design is one of the most important activities that can influence sustainability. Therefore, it is critical to educate students about these methodologies as they are the next generation of ...
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.