Query returned 1478 results.
Design and Social Innovation in Vulnerable Communities
Mejia, Luis; Betancourt, Maria Clara // 2012
Industrial Design’s responsibility is to design friendly environments for users that minimize the impact of proposed solutions ensuring that these will be regenerative and that they will give back ...
Design for Adaptability Identifying Potential for Improvement on an Architecture Basis
Kissel, Maximilian; Schrieverho_, Phillip; Lindemann, Udo // 2012
Adaptability provides additional value to stakeholders over the whole life-cycle. But the systematic design of product life-cycle properties into complex systems constitutes an ambiguous task. Design ...
Design for adoptability – Support of upgrade strategies to react to evolving stakeholder needs and requirements
Schrieverhoff, P.; Lindemann, U. // 2012
All systems and products are designed to fulfil the needs and requirements of their stakeholders. Those needs evolve over time, though, and thus products that can be adapted to altered demands and ...
Design for End of Life: A Design Methodology for the Early Stages of an Innovation Process
Peeters, Jef R.; Dewulf // 2012
The first phases of the engineering design process, such as the problem definition, the information gathering and the idea generation phase, are commonly considered as important steps in product ...
Design for Sustainable Behaviour in Design Education
Boks, Casper; Zachrisson Daae, Johannes // 2012
This paper reports on how Design for Sustainable Behaviour has been integrated in a design course. Based on a teaching philosophy aiming to provide students with a holistic view on design, and ...
Designing interoperable lean, agile, resilient and green industrial ecosystems
Cabral, I.; Grilo, A. // 2012
This paper describes current research aiming at exploring the applicability of Axiomatic Design and Design Structure Matrix in developing a systematic methodology for collaborative business platforms ...
Drafting of a Patent Application as a Strategy for Engineering Design Education
Lloveras, Joaquim // 2012
This article highlights the process of designing, with drafting a patent as strategy to improve the designs of new products, in academia. The patent system discourages the copy of registered ...
ECO-DESIGN FOR MICROELECTRONIC PRODUCTS: MEASUREMENT AND INTEGRATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA FOR PACKAGE DESIGN
Villard, A.; Petit, L.; Lelah, A.; Brissaud, D. // 2012
This paper presents an eco-design tool, dedicated to designers of packages for microelectronic components. The tool aims to increase designers’ environmental consciousness and to drive them to ...
Educational Bridge Between Students and Professional in Building Industry
Zeiler, Wim // 2012
Within the building industry there is a clear need for more sustainable solutions, with as ultimate goal Zero Emission Buildings. This makes building design more complex. Building design transfers ...
ESTABLISHING COLLABORATIVE NETWORKS FOR THE CONCEPTUALISATION OF PSS
Mougaard ,K.; Howard, T. J.; McAloone ,T. C.; Neugebauer ,L.; Bey, N. // 2012
Product/Service-Systems (PSS) can be seen as an innovation strategy, where companies can (re)position themselves in a value system by focusing on adding value throughout the product lifecycle and the ...
EVALUATION OF ARCHITECTURE OPTIONS IN SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Schrieverhoff, P.; Bender, T.; Kissel ,M.; Lindemann ,U. // 2012
All systems and products are designed to fulfil the needs of their stakeholders. Those needs evolve over time, though, and thus products that can be adapted to altered demands and boundary conditions ...
Foroba Yelen: Portable Solar Lighting and Sustainable Strategies for Remove Malian Villages
Hall, Ashley; Konate, Boukary; Kulkarni, Amrita // 2012
Foroba Yelen (‘collective light’ in the Malian Bambara language) is a collaboration between staff and students from the Innovation Design Engineering dual masters programme at the Royal College of ...
From Product Designer to PSS Designer – How to Educate Engineers to become PSS Designers
Dill, Anna Katharina; Bohn, Andrea; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2012
Today’s universities teach conventional product design for mechanical engineers and service engineering for business administration students. This separated thinking and teaching of design categories ...
IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION OF ECO-INNOVATIVE R&D PROJECTS IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS INDUSTRIES
Cluzel, F.; Yannou, B.; Millet, D.; Leroy, Y. // 2012
An eco-innovation process is proposed to identify and select at a strategic level and with limited time and resources eco-innovative R&D projects for complex industrial systems. First, an ...
Implementing PDM Systems in Design Education to Enhance Design Collaboration
Ostad-Ahmad-Ghorabi; Rahmani, Touba; Gerhard, Detlef // 2012
Product Data Management (PDM) systems are inevitable when it comes to design collaboration. In industry, the use of PDM systems as a means to support data management and engineering cooperation is an ...
Improved Application of Design Methodology: Taking Man-Induced Disturbances into Account
Hinsch, Malte Sebastian; Heller, Jan Erik // 2012
To support design engineers and managers in product development, many approaches exist. Their success most generally relies equally on man’s knowledge and ingenuity. Likewise, human attributes tend ...
Innovation without Design: The Dynamics of Role Making and the Gradual Emergence of the Collective Designer
Pinheiro-Croisel, R.; Hernes, T. // 2012
This paper explores innovation and social behaviourist theory in relation to sustainable urban projects in the highly institutionalized public sector (towns). Using empirical data from France, we ...
INTEGRATING SYSTEMS AND MECHANICAL/ ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - HOW MODEL-BASED INTERFACE MANAGEMENT SUPPORTS MULTI-DOMAIN COLLABORATION
Tristl ,C.; Karcher ,A. // 2012
By looking at complex systems and their development process within the context of distinct development phases, domains and interacting system elements, Interface Management is a key success factor to ...
International Design Project Semester
Segalas, Jordi; Benson, Patricia // 2012
Sustainability and Internationalization are key factors within educational programmes and institutions nowadays. Offering programmes which focus on these factors at undergraduate level has been a ...
INTRODUCTORY APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABILITY INTEGRATION IN CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Thompson, A. W.; Hallstedt, S.; Isaksson, O. // 2012
This work introduces an approach for how to develop and put into use sustainability criteria in conceptual design by utilizing a set of sustainability principles as design boundaries and aligning ...
Investigating the importance of sustainability information in Product Development and Design
Aschehoug, Silje Helene; Ringen, Geir; Boks, Casper; Aasland, Knut Einar // 2012
To further improve the sustainability performance of products, a sustainability information framework beyond mere product and process data has been developed. This was done under the assumption that ...
IS THERE A NEED FOR DECISION SUPPORT IN SUSTAINABLE R&D PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT?
Decouttere, C. J.; Vandaele ,N. J. // 2012
Seminated from an industry need in Flanders of how to introduce sustainability in the R&D portfolio decision process, we observed that particular decision support issues came back time after time. A ...
Mapping the added value of design thinking in social entrepreneurship
Fladvad Nielsen, Brita; Asheim, Jonas // 2012
Social designers and social entrepreneurs aim at improving life quality locally and globally. As research on social entrepreneurship is intensified in the Nordic countries, it is important also for ...
NATURE-INSPIRED DESIGN STRATEGIES IN SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: A CASE-STUDY OF STUDENT PROJECTS
de Pauw ,I. C.; Karana, E.; Kandachar ,P. V. // 2012
In design practice, Nature-Inspired Design Strategies (NIDS) can be applied when developing sustainable products. However, knowledge on how this actually helps designers is lacking. This study ...
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.