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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 ...
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, ...
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.