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New Opportunities for Norwegian Wool: An Investigation of Product and Market Pissibilities
Rřsvik, Birgitte Linde; Boks, Casper // 2012
This paper aims to provide knowledge on how Norwegian wool can contribute to a more environmental sustainable textile consumption and increase value creation in Norwegian wool production, textile ...
NON-PROBABILISTIC UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN EARLY DESIGN STAGES
Eifle,r T.; Wiebel ,M.; Haydn, M.; Hauer, T.; Birkhofer, H.; Bohn, A. // 2012
For the development of robust products, acting disturbances within the product life cycle must be considered. However, well known methods of probabilistic uncertainty analysis often cannot be applied ...
OPTIMAL DESIGN OF MODULAR CONFIGURATION CONSIDERING HIERARCHICY OF A PRODUCT FUNCTION STRUCTURE
Kobayashi ,M.; Matsumoto, Y.; Higashi, M. // 2012
This paper proposes a new optimal design method of a modular configuration considering hierarchy of a product function structure. In the proposed method, modules are configured based on a product ...
Participate! A critical investigation into the relationship between participation and empowerment in design for development
Fladvad Nielsen, Brita // 2012
Participatory design methods are embraced by most design practitioners and academics working with design for development; design aiming for empowerment and poverty alleviation. That participatory ...
PRODUCT’S LIFE CYCLE MODELLING FOR ECO-DESIGNING PRODUCT-SERVICE SYSTEMS
Fargnoli ,M.; De Minicis ,M.; Tronci, M. // 2012
Shifting from product use to service use represents one of the most powerful approaches for the achievement of a sustainable society. The paper combines product’s life-cycle simulation with ...
PROPOSAL FOR FUNCTIONAL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION AS PART OF A PLM SOLUTION IN INTERDISCIPLINARY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Eigner, M.; Gilz, T.; Zafirov ,R. // 2012
The transparency between disciplines in engineering is not sufficient. Within modern products interdisciplinary collaboration is important. This paper presents a concept that addresses this problem ...
Sustainability Curricula in Design Education
Casais, Mafalda; Christiaans, Henri; Almendra, Rita // 2012
While sustainability in Design finds much attention in the literature, the education of sustainability in Design courses lacks discussion regarding curricula and importance. In an attempt to map the ...
Sustainable Development Primers for Design Students: A Comparative Study
Garland, Nigel Patrick; Khan, Zulfiqar Ahmed; Palmer, Sarah // 2012
Within the higher education sector there has been progress incorporating or embedding sustainable development concepts into the engineering and design curriculum. Despite guidance from the ...
Team Designing - Facilitation of Design Learning Using a Systemic Model of Design
Denise, Marianne; Stokholm, Jessen // 2012
Future wellbeing is depending on human competences in order to strengthen a sustainable development. This requires system thinking and ability to deal with complexity, dynamic and a vast of ...
Technical Evolution Process - An Approach for Product Development and Optimization
Lachmayer, Roland; Sauthoff, Bastian; Gottwald, Philipp // 2012
The question how to combine conceptual changes with optimization strategies and life cycle information to implement semi-automatical design changes regarding real environmental conditions in product ...
TOWARD UNIFIED ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN ENTERPRISE
Zhang, F.; Zwolinski, P. // 2012
This paper classifies some eco activities in different companies’ corporate functions. Two mains categories are identified: one for eco activities contributing to the global performance development ...
Towards Life-Oriented Evaluation Support of Interface Concepts
Farrugia, Lawrence; Borg, Jonathan C. // 2012
The evaluation of design concepts is a critical early design stage with potential ramifications on subsequent lifecycle phases. During this stage the engineering designer is typically required to ...
TRACEABILITY VISUALISATION TOOLKIT
Stankovic ,T.; Štorga, M.; Stojic, I.; Savšek, T. // 2012
This paper is presenting an organic based approach to visualisation of engineering information evolution and traceability during product’s lifecycle. The work presented is a part of the TRENIN ...
Using AI to Evaluate Creative Designs
Maher, M. L.; Fisher, D. H. // 2012
Many have offered criteria for judging a design as creative. Among these criteria have been novelty, value, and surprise. We offer a unique perspective and synthesis of these three criteria with the ...
Vorschlag zur funktionsorientierten Kategorisierung von CAD-Templates am Beispiel eines Entwicklungsprozesses in der Automobilindustrie (Members only )
Afkari, A.; Roth, D.; Binz, H. // 2012
This paper presents a recommendation for classifying CAD templates in the automobile development process and to determine an exact definition of template categories and their ...
A COMPARISON OF THE INTEGRATION OF RISK MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES
Bassler, Denis; Oehmen, Josef; Seering, Warren; Bendaya, Mohamed // 2011
The management and reduction of risk is a central part of product development processes. This paper analyses the extent to which four common product development approaches address risks (waterfall ...
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 ...
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.