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Adaptive systems management
Naumann, T.; Vajna, S. // 2004
New approaches start mostly with the formulation of global objectives for the development of products, i.e. the reduction of development time and costs while improving the quality simultaneously. ...
ADDRESSING DESIGN COMPLEXITY: INTEGRATING PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE AND PRODUCT PORTFOLIO CONSIDERATIONS
FABRYCKY, W. J. // 2004
AESTHETICS IN A FORMALISED REVERSE DESIGN PROCESS
Faisst, K.G.; Dankwort, C. W. // 2004
Aesthetics of a product cannot be considered as independent of the person, looking at or acting with it. This leads to the approach to treat both person and object as one unit (in analogy to Quantum ...
AN ECO-INFORMATION TOOL BASED UPON LIFE CYCLE THINKING
Baragetti, S.; Fargnoli, M.; Rovida, E. // 2004
Problems related to environmental impact of products and processes have become relevant. As shown by many Authors in the field, in spite of the high number of design tools developed and available in ...
APPLICATION AND EVALUATION OF A METHODOLOGY FOR CANDIDATE TECHNOLOGY SELECTION IMPROVING PRODUCT DESIGN PROCESSES
Pugliese, D.; Benassi, M.; Bordegoni, M.; Pulli, M. // 2004
Engineering Knowledge Management has proved to be a key enabler to reducing lifecycle costs and time, improving quality and helping to ensure safe products. Two issues have to be considered for the ...
DESIGN FOR UTILITY, SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIETAL VIRTUES: DEVELOPING PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS
McAloone, T.C.; Andreasen, M.M. // 2004
This paper focuses on Product Service System (PSS) development as a promising approach for sustainable product development. We attempt here to identify the nature of such a multiple definition of ...
DESIGN FOR VARIETY: A REVIEW IN METHODS TO ESTABLISH A PRODUCT FAMILY ARCHITECTURE
Jensen, Tormod; Hildre, Mans Petter // 2004
that illustrates the product development process from establishing customer's needs to the manufacturing and supply chain of the family. The majority of existing methods are working on ...
DESIGN IN INTEGRATED PRODUCT POLICY
KURCZEWSKI, P.; K?OS, Z. // 2004
Design informatology in IPE
Nándor, B. // 2004
Designing an object of the physical-material world, for fulfilling its certain function, has a professional, logical process from recognizing the problem to produce the object as the solution. The ...
DESIGN METHOD FOR MODULAR CUSTOMISED PRODUCT FAMILIES TO CONSIDER DIFFERENT USE STRATEGIES
Oja, H.; Riitahuhta, A. // 2004
The awareness of life cycle costs has focused the acquisition process of customised products towards total costs during the whole lifetime. Product manufacturer shall take into account several phases ...
DESIGN SUPPORT BY IMPROVING METHOD TRANSFER - A PROCEDURAL MODEL AND GUIDELINES FOR STRATEGIC PRODUCT PLANNING IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
Braun, T.; Gausemeier, J.; Lindemann, U.; Orlik, L.; Vienenkötter, A. // 2004
To ensure sustainable business success, SMEs have to improve their strategic competence. This is actually achievable by integrating strategic product planning into their corporate management. In ...
Dynamics of Product Platform Lifecycle and Disposition Management
Lehtonen, Timo; Juuti, Tero; Pulkkinen, Antti; Riitahuhta, Asko // 2004
ECO DESIGN: MAKE IT HAPPEN BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIVE PRODUCT DESIGN
Rosemann, B.; Meerkamm, H. // 2004
The classical way of performing eco design – take a product, perform a weak point analysis (i.e. an LCA) and redesign the existing products focusing the found weak points – results in a small change ...
ESTIMATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF SIMILAR PRODUCTS
Dick, M.; Dewulf, W.; Birkhofer, H.; Duflou, J. // 2004
This paper proposes parametric estimation techniques as a simplified LCA technique for estimating the environmental impacts of a range of similar products based on a limited number of LCA studies. ...
EVALUATION OF A LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT TOOL - ADJUSTING THE SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS' VIEW TO THE EXPECTATION OF THE USER
Felsing, T.; Dick, M.; Birkhofer, H.; Rüttinger, B. // 2004
In this paper, the results of the evaluation of a Life Cycle Assessment Tool - the "Product Develop Environment (PDE)" - are presented. This evaluation was done with a mix of qualitative ...
INTEGRATING ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS IN PRODUCTS
Johan, Tingström; Anne Marie, Akermark // 2004
This paper presents the result from two different interview studies made in Sweden. One study had focus on companies developing consumer products and focus of the other study was product developing ...
INTRODUCTION OF THE INTEGRATED PRODUCT POLICY IN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
Hessling, T.; Lindemann, U. // 2004
In the last years a new environment strategy was developed by the European commission, which is called „Integrated Product Policy“ or IPP. Within this political process the Bavarian government ...
LIFE CYCLE STRATEGY
Herrmann, C.; Decker, C.; Mansour, M.; Mateika, M. // 2004
Life cycle strategy is a strategy, which focuses on an economic and ecological optimum over the entire life cycle from the raw material extraction to the recycling. The purpose of this strategy is to ...
MATRIX BASED METHOD FOR MAINTAINING CONFIGURATION KNOWLEDGE
Nummela, J. // 2004
Increasing needs of the customers require the companies to develop product families with enough variants to be able to stay in business and keep the customers satisfied. The need for increasing ...
MEASURING THE CUSTOMER’S PERCEPTION OF DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS AS INDICATORS FOR ADDED VALUE
Oberender, C.; Kopp, K.; Birkhofer, H. // 2004
When developing marketable products it is important to give them as well practical value as some kind of added value, i.e. social prestige value and individual edification value. Prestige value is ...
PRODUCT DISASSEMBLY SEQUENCES APPROACH IN THE EARLY STAGES OF PRODUCT DESIGN
Kljajin, M.; Opalić, M. // 2004
The authors are investigating procedures, which can be used to assess service difficulties and costs at the early stages of product design. A central part of this work is generation of required ...
PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT IN A SERIAL PRODUCTION
Tavčar, J.; Duhovnik, J. // 2004
The development of information technologies enables one to regard a product's life cycle as a unified process from idea through development, manufacture and distribution to servicing. The ...
PRODUCT PLATFORM MODULARISATlON OF LUMINAIRE LIGHT SOURCES
// 2004
In an effort to better respond to heterogeneous customer needs, many firms find it appropriate tu increase product variety i.e. the number of different products offered to customers. Some companies ...
PROGRESSIVE ECO DESIGN BY AN ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVA-TIVE PRODUCT DESIGN (EIPD)
ROSEMANN, B. // 2004
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.