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Matching the Voice of the Engineer to the Voice of the Customer: An Evolution of QFD
Short, Timothy David; Garside, John; Appleton, Ernie; Morris, Adrian; McEachran, Harriet; Beeley, Edward // 2009
Previous research has noted the need for engineers to understand the wants/needs of the customer if engineering enterprises are to remain commercially viable. It has also been shown that this ...
Material selection Strategies for Environmental-Based Fatigue Design
Burvill, Colin Reginald; Leary, Martin; Sciavone, Francesco // 2009
Environmental imperatives require that the environmental consequence of material selection be minimized. This can be achieved by assessing the relative environmental impact of the candidate ...
Modifying Design Pedagogy to Develop New Approaches to Sustainability
Hillen, Veronique Beatrice; Banerjee, Banny // 2009
Challenges in sustainability represent complex problems with multi-dimensional, interlaced issues. Design education has responded to the need to address such issues by incorporating sustainability ...
Next Generation Business Oriented and User Centered Design Management Approach
Mela, Johanna E.; Juuti, Tero S.; Lehtonen, Timo P.; Riitahuhta, Asko O. // 2009
Recent turbulences in global economy have proven that impacts of changes in business environment have to be taken into account when considering the design management issues. This paper examines two ...
PLM — Digital Engineering and Numerical Simulation for Collaborative Product Development
Kibamba,Yannick; Eynard,Benoît; Troussier,Nadčge; Derigent,William // 2009
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a strategic business approach supporting the collaborative management of product and process de nition information from concept to end of life. This information ...
Process Based Uncertainty Analysis – an Approach to Analyze Uncertainties Using a Process Model
Kloberdanz, Hermann; Engelhardt, Roland; Mathias, Johannes; Birkhofer, Herbert // 2009
Uncertainties in technical systems in the field of mechanical engineering occur in all processes throughout the entire life cycle of a product. In general these uncertainties are understood as ...
Recycling traditional designs. a practical approach
Al-Faisal, Hanan Faisal // 2009
Understanding and identifying local design features should not be a design problem; on the contrary, traditional design features should act as design tools and a source of inspiration. The lack of ...
Redesign Method of Manufacturing Technologies Based on Environmental Performance Evaluation
Mishima, Nozomu; Kondoh, Shinsuke; Hotta, Yuji; Watari, Koji; Yasuoka, Masayoshi; Masui, Keijiro // 2009
To achieve sustainable society, many efforts in reducing environmental impact of manufacturing have been tried. However, for engineers, enhancing manufacturing quality has long been the most ...
Repacking Design Theory in Green
Nay, Eric Matthew // 2009
Rethinking "design thinking" as a curricular exercise takes on extra cache as the Ontario College of Art & Design rebrands and repositions itself within the landscape of art and design ...
Setting Environmental Targets in Product Development so that they Really Matter
Ölundh Sandström, Gunilla Christina; Ritzén, Sofia // 2009
An important factor for reaching environmental improvements in product development is to have relevant environmental targets that actually influence the product development process. In this paper are ...
Simultaneous Consideration of Product Design and End-of-Life Recovery Network Design
Kwak, Minjung; Kim, Harrison // 2009
In recent years, product recovery has become a great concern to manufacturers who take the responsibility for product end-of-life decisions. Product design and reverse logistics network design are ...
Strategic Decisions Guided by Tools and Methods based on Sustainability Questions
Hallstedt,Sophie // 2009
Product development is a particularly critical intervention point for the transformation of society towards sustainability. Current socio-ecological impacts over product life-cycles are evidence that ...
Strategies for the Collaborative Use of CAD Product Models
Ding, Lian; Ball, Alexander; Patel, Manjula; Matthews, Jason; Mullineux, Glen // 2009
Today, more and more companies are shifting from design and manufacturing to provide through-life support. Product models, as one of the most important types of product information, must be ...
Structural Description Method of the Sustainable Society Scenarios for Scenario Design
Mizuno, Yuji; Kishita, Yusuke; Yamasaki, Yasuhiro; Fukushige, Shinichi; Umeda, Yasushi // 2009
Today, many scenarios are described for envisioning sustainable society such as the IPCC's Emissions Scenarios. These scenarios often employ simulators provide a basis for their descriptions. ...
Structuring Knowledge from Surgical Observations for Design Reuse
Grech, K Alexia; Borg,C.Jonathan; Muscat,Rita Maria; Ellul,Carmel // 2009
Due to the many bene ts that it offers patients, Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is becoming even more and more popular in a wide range of surgical elds. This paper describes a set of surgical ...
Sustainability and design education: from products to practices
Marchand, Anne // 2009
The first and main part of this paper discusses the importance for the field of design for sustainability to encompass approaches that both consider the notions of eco-efficiency and sufficiency. The ...
Systematic Guidance for How to Integrate a Strategic Sustainability Perspective in Core Business Decision Systems
França, César Levy; Hallstedt, Sophie; Broman, Göran // 2009
Sustainability integration in core business and product development has been a challenge, even if many supporting methods, tools and concepts are available today. However, these are mainly focusing ...
Teaching sustainable design through a creative approach to technology and recycling
Sazhina, Elena; Manzanares, Elizabeth // 2009
A recent study to integrate sustainable development into teaching process for undergraduate and postgraduate students at School of Environment and Technology (SET), Faculty of Science and Engineering ...
The changing role of the industrial designer with the growing sustainability imperative
Loy, Jennifer Elizabeth // 2009
How does the role of the industrial designer change in response to the sustainability imperative? In practical terms, how does sustainability affect what the designer does and the outcomes that can ...
The design of Eco Board Games as an umbrella approach to sustainable product design education
Boks, Casper; McAloone, Tim // 2009
The multidisciplinarity and quickly broadening scope of sustainable product design education provide incentives for experimentation with different pedagogical techniques. One of these, involving the ...
The development of an on-line learning & teaching resource for the socio-centric aspects of sustainable design
Conrad, Franziska; Humphries-Smith, Tania // 2009
This paper fits into the topics of socially relevant design, design and emotion and sustainable design and explores the question how can we create a more sustainable way of life? The paper also ...
The Effects of Reusability and Green Design in Consumer Packaging on Consumer Satisfaction — Using SEM Analysis
Wang,Wei-yao; Huang, Tzu-ho Jordan // 2009
More contemporary product packaging are designed to be environmental- friendly as efforts of the environmentalists grow more enthusiastic and the number of green design supporter increase. However, ...
The Management of Digital Sketches through PLM solutions
Huet, Greg; McAlpine, Hamish; Camarero, Ricardo; Culley, Stephen J.; Leblanc, Tatjana; Fortin, Clement // 2009
To manufacture successful products, companies are reliant on an efficient information and knowledge backbone. Within this context, this paper reports a preliminary investigation into the management ...
The Product Development Process Roadblock that is Restricting the Widespread Adoption of Design for Sustainability
Lee-Mortimer, Andrew; Short, Tim // 2009
There is now growing pressure on manufacturers from all sectors, and of all sizes, to adopt Design for Sustainability (DfS). The aim of DfS is ensure that both the environmental impact, and any wider ...
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.