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Can we Engineer Better Process Models?
Kannengiesser, Udo // 2009
This paper proposes an engineering design view of process modelling that helps address the high complexity and low flexibility of many process models. In this view, processes are understood as ...
Capacity for sustainability: the changing contexts of design education
O'Rafferty, Simon; Curtis, Hannah; O'Connor, Frank // 2009
The role of design education is evolving due to structural changes in industry and society. These changes include the strategic positioning of design in business, new demographics of ageing, ...
Case study based education in Product Lifecycle Management
Eigner, Martin; Langlotz, Martin; Reinhardt, Peter // 2009
The paper introduces a new concept for the design of case study based courses in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) education using the example of a successfully implemented PLM course module. The ...
Common Versioning of Product Data and Engineering Processes
Eigner,Martin; Nem,Mogo Fabrice // 2009
PDM/PLM (Product Data/Lifecycle Management) and Work ow Management (WM) systems have been established both as backbone for the management of product data and their related engineering processes.Both ...
Coordinating Design Decisions for Product, Supply Chain, and Reverse Supply Chain
El korchi, Akram; Millet, Dominique; Colin, Jacques // 2009
New environmental regulations have extended the producer's responsibility for a product to the post-consumer stage. Producers are often responsible for the collection and recovery of their ...
Design for Sustainability: Overview and Trends
Ameta, Gaurav // 2009
This paper presents recent trends in Design for Sustainability (DfS) with foresight and strategy as the point of view. We first provide a definition of design for sustainability based on the notion ...
Design vs. re-design, and how to innovate
Leblanc, Tatjana // 2009
Responsive to the challenges of modern times, designers and educators see the need to re-examine their role and responsibility. Several of them adopted human-centered approaches that make the user ...
Development of a framework for assessing sustainability in new product development
Sutcliffe, Laura Francesca Rose; Maier, Anja Martina; Moultrie, James; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
The area of sustainability in business is crowded with discussion and tools that are geared towards change at the organisational level (e.g. Corporate Social Responsibility). At the product level, ...
Development of an Interdisciplinary Product Model to Support the Optimization of the Product Development Process
Szeghö, K.; Bercsey, T.; Eigner, M. // 2009
The main objective of the research presented in the study is to accelerate the improvement of complex products. In the first step, the product life cycle is examined as a whole (taking into ...
Development of Mathematical Models for Secure Collaboration in Product Lifecycle Management
Liu, Wei; Wang, Min; Zhang, Da Yong; Zeng, Yong // 2009
This paper formalizes product lifecycle management (PLM) based on axiomatic theory of design modeling. Collaboration and secure collaboration issues in PLM are of major concern. Mathematical models ...
Eco Design: Selection of Material for Important Parts of a Tri-Cycle Through LCA
Sharma,Suman; Manepatil,Smita // 2009
Ecodesign is an approach to design of a product with special consideration for the environmental impacts of the product during its whole lifecycle.Design for environment (DFE) and sustainable design ...
Ecodesign integration in education: the utility of an existing multidisciplinary design methodology
Bergen, Jan Peter; Verhulst, Elli // 2009
Over the last decades, sustainable development increases to be a major global issue. Within this scope, new product innovations might lead to a more sustainable future. The role of the industrial ...
Ecodesign tools in design education
Lofthouse, Vicky // 2009
Over the last 10 years the Department of Design and Technology at Loughborough University has introduced over 600 design students to a suite of qualitative and quantitative sustainable design tools. ...
Educating the responsible engineer; socially responsible design and sustainability in the curriculum.
de Vere, Ian; Bissett-Johnson, Katherine; Thong, Christine // 2009
Engineering should serve the community in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. In order to achieve this, the engineering profession must progress from the role of technical service ...
Enhancing the receptivity of designers and skills of designers and product planners to environmentally-considered new product development
McCain, Holly; Lemon, Mark; Ford, Peter // 2009
This paper investigates the link between the receptivity of industry-based designers and product planners, and the learning styles and skills-development of eco-design strategies for use in ...
Exploring the Reflective and Utilitarian Benefits of Product Attachment
Maclachlan, Mary; Harrison, David; Wood, Bruce // 2009
With heightened environmental concern and the recent global economic crisis a new challenge has emerged for design; to take a more responsible role and tackle sustainability more innovatively. Not ...
Finding the right type of industrial collaboration for the right type of studio project
Liem, Andre // 2009
Within the context of design education, industrial collaboration is nowadays perceived as being a key driver for studio teaching. From the second or third year onwards, design studio planning and ...
Formation and Certification of Integrated Design Engineering Skills
Riel, Andreas Erik; Tichkiewitch, Serge; Grajewski, Damian; Weiss, Zenobia; Draghici, Anca; Draghici, George; Messnarz, Richard // 2009
Integrated Product Development is increasingly a challenge of understanding and predicting the complete product lifecycle, and of treating the product as a whole in all phases of development. This ...
Framework And Metrics For Assessing The Guidance Of Design Processes
Clevenger, Caroline Murrie; Haymaker, John Riker // 2009
Traditional precedent-based architectural design explicitly generates and analyzes very few options for very few criteria. The introduction of sustainability concerns and building information ...
Identification of Promising Connecting-Points between Product Lifecycle- and Project Management
Roelofsen, Julia; Anwander, Carolin; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Today´s product development usually takes places in a project organization. But the "worlds" of product data and project management are not linked good enough yet to enable optimal ...
Improving Eco-Efficiency in Office Environments: Design for Good Use
Rojas, Johanna; Collado-Ruiz, Daniel // 2009
Eco-efficiency has been analyzed for many industrial activities, although some environments such as office have been disregarded. Even though with a low relative impact, the high amount of office ...
Influence of the Multiple Life Cycles on the Environmental Impact of a Product
Tchertchian, Nicolas; Liang, Haining; Millet, Dominique // 2009
One of the design problems of B2C products results from their increasingly short lifespan. The technological changes, associated with the evolutions of use, lead the companies indeed to renew their ...
Innovation and Design Inspired Product Realization
Jackson, Mats; Ekman, Sten; Wikström, Anders; Wiktorsson, Magnus // 2009
Long term growth and future jobs in society rely on that industry is able to realize new sustainable product ideas and develop these to profitable products in the market. This encompasses both short ...
Integral Design for Open Building
Zeiler, Wim; Savanovic, Perica; Quanjel, Emile // 2009
There is a growing awareness of sustainability that leads towards knowledge transfer and research between companies and the Dutch knowledge and research institutes within the building industry. The ...
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.