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The Reflective Citizen – General Design Education for a Sustainable Future
Digranes, Ingvild; Fauske, Laila Belinda // 2010
With the Norwegian 2006 curriculum, the thoughts of a global responsibility in terms of a wide understanding of sustainability was introduced in general education in Art and Design education ...
The Role and Architecture of the Virtual Model for Manual Work Support
Sakari Leino, Simo-Pekka; Krassi, Boris; Strauchmann, Matthias; Reyes-Lecuona, Arcadio; Kiviranta, Sauli; Sääski, Juha; Viitaniemi, Juhani; Vehviläinen, Mikko; Rantanen, Petri; Brand, Raimo // 2010
One of the main challenges that companies face nowadays is effectively reusing and sharing information and knowledge not only within teams, but also between other divisions or with other companies ...
THE ROLE OF THE DESIGNER WITHIN SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT: PART OF THE SOLUTION OR PART OF THE PROBLEM
Vint, L. A. // 2010
Designers are considered as an integral part of the creative industry; however, in reality they represent the consequence business. Designing involves problem solving and improving people's ...
The Value (?) of BoP Protocols in Creating Institutional Sustainability through National Partnerships
Printz Moe Solveig Haukvik, Henrik; Boks, Casper // 2010
To make use of existing Base of the Pyramid (BOP) protocols it is important to understand what constitutes a BOP project. Most of the recent literature considers the transnational collaboration ...
TOOL FOR CONCEPT EVALUATION BASED ON THE PROPERTIES OF THE CONCEPT AND THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
Vanhatalo, M. J.; Lehtonen, T. A.; Pakkanen, J. T.; Juuti, T. S.; Riitahuhta, A. O. // 2010
Nowadays new products have to be brought to the market in frequent pace. This leads to situation where designers need a way to quickly validate their concept ideas. We present a tool for this. The ...
TOWARDS INNOVATIVE ASSEMBLY CONCEPTS: INTEGRAL PRODUCT- AND ASSEMBLY STRUCTURE
Halfmann, N.; Krause, D. // 2010
The product development plays a decisive role in view of the coherence of the causation and the responsibility of costs along the product life cycle. Early acting is obligatory. The product ...
USING PRODUCT DESIGN METHODS IN DESIGNING AND VALIDATING ENTREPRISE MODELS
Fathallah, A.; Stal-Le Cardinal, J.; Ermine, J. L.; Bocquet, J. C. // 2010
Many managers use models to understand the main processes of their companies but also to take the right decisions to enhance the performances. Numerous researches have been carried out on enterprise ...
VIRTUAL ENGINEERING: PRINCIPLES, METHODS AND APPLICATIONS
Ovtcharova, J. G. // 2010
The use of Virtual Reality as a visualization and validation environment allows developers, distributors, manufacturers, and customers alike to virtually handle the future product from its ...
What is the Problem – Sustainability beyond light globes and water buckets?
Clune, Stephen John // 2010
This paper presents a methodology in an attempt to address the lacuna between the scale of unsustainability described in the literature – and the initiatives employed by designers and the ...
A General Management System for Design Outsourcing
Dandache, Moustapha Rakan; Bocquet, Jean Claude // 2009
Industrial firms are recently turning to outsourcing design. Unlike in manufacturing the context in design is characterized by a lot of uncertainty. Technology and knowledge are critical when ...
A Method for Evaluation of Product Lifecycle Alternatives under Uncertainty
Kota, Srinivas; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2009
In each stage of product development, we need to take decisions, by evaluating multiple product alternatives based on multiple criteria. Classical evaluation methods like weighted objectives method ...
A Methodology for Evaluating Technology Readiness during Product Development
Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Steve; Larsson, Andreas; Larsson, Tobias // 2009
In today's highly competitive global markets, where products are driven by rapidly advancing technologies and the ever-increasing expectations of the customer, methods for identifying new ...
A Model Based Approach for Conceptual Development of Industrial Product-Service Systems
Sadek, Tim; Welp, Ewald Georg // 2009
Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS²) are characterised by the integration of investment goods (technical products) and industrial services along their entire lifecycle. Against the background of ...
A Modeling Method of Services on their Contents and Delivery Processes
Hara, Tatsunori; Arai, Tamio; Shimomura, Yoshiki // 2009
Manufacturers are required to supply more services to customers in addition to material products. This paper aims at presenting a method to model services contents and its delivery process for ...
A Morphological Design Approach to User-EfficientDesign
Elias, Edward W. A.; Orme, Martyn; Dekoninck, Elies A.; Culley, Steve J. // 2009
The behaviour of users can have a negative impact on the energy efficiency of products. By using products unnecessarily or inefficiently even a product which has been designed and built with highly ...
A Process Improvement Approach to Capitalize on Manufacturing Experience in Engineering Design
Andersson, Petter; Isaksson, Ola // 2009
The ability to capitalize on company knowledge and experience earned in various projects is recognized as key assets in the competition on the growing global market. Methods and tools are constantly ...
A Quality Improving Method to Assist the Integrated Product Development Process
Negroni, Daniella Yada; Trabasso, Luís Gonzaga // 2009
Several studies confirm the benefits of anticipating the problems that might occur in the products lifecycle to the conceptual phase of the integrated product development (IPD) process. The challenge ...
Adapting Eco-Innovation Tools to the Needs of the Company: A Case Study
O’Hare, Jamie; Dekoninck, Elies; Turnbull, Aidan; McMahon, Chris // 2009
In this paper we consider the problem of the lack of industry uptake of eco-design and eco-innovation tools. We take a change management perspective on this problem and focus on eco-innovation tool ...
An Empirical Study of Energy Efficiency of Clothes Dryers
Lee, Jay; Hoeller, Norbert; Rogers, Damian; Musnier, Samuel; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
The domestic clothes dryer is one of the most energy-consumptive appliances in the residential sector, but there has been relatively little work to study its environmental aspects and improve upon ...
An Integrated Product, Process and Rationale Model for the Provision of Through-Life Information in Product Service Systems
McKay, Alison; Kundu, Saikat; de Pennington, Alan; Dawson, Peter G. // 2009
Many organisations are moving from the supply of products to the delivery of product-service systems. As a result, the potential value of product-related information created through the whole ...
Applying design thinking to regeneration
Reid, Iain; Harrison, David; Wood, Bruce; Clements, Michael // 2009
This paper explores the results of a project with 2nd year product design students who were tasked with providing solutions for social issues in the urban environment. It shows how this brief has ...
Assembly-Oriented Product Structure based on Preliminary Assembly Process Engineering
Demoly, Frédéric; Gomes, Samuel; Eynard, Benoît; Rivest, Louis; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2009
Currently, product design is mainly influenced by customer requirements, i.e. designers are more and more focused to have a well-balanced product between function and form. However, other ...
Automated Analysis of Product Disassembly to Determine Environmental Impact
Agu, David Ikechukwu; Campbell, Matthew Ira // 2009
Manufacturers are increasingly being held responsible for the fate of their products during the end-of-life phase. In this research, a product's end-of-life environmental impact is calculated as ...
Bridging TDM and PDM Solutions Using JT in PLM Architectures
Bitzer,Michael; Eigner,Martin; Gerhardt,Florian // 2009
In the scope of ever growing complexity amongst engineering networks and products, application of Product-Lifecycle-Management (PLM) concepts has become an essential element in strategic enterprise ...
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.