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Methodical Framework and Examplesof an Environmental Innovative Product Development

Rosemann, B.; Meerkamm, H. // 2002
Innovative products are the base capacity for industrial manufacturers and traders to compete in fast changing markets and are consequently the foundation of our social welfare. In opposition to ...

Multiple Environmental Benchmark Data Supporting Ecodesign in Both Industry and Academia

Boks, C.; Stevels, A. // 2002
For many years Philips Consumer Electronics and Delft University of Technology have cooperated to balance and bridge scientific theory and methodology development regarding sustainability issues with ...

Product Development On The Fast Track

Burchardt, C.; Göttsch, N. // 2002
Product lifecycle management (PLM) focuses on the efficient utilization of existing know-how and resources. The challenges faced by car manufacturers are by no means new: They need to introduce ...

Quality Improvement in the Design of Mechanical Systems

Fargnoli, M.; Pighini, U. // 2002
Quality in product development moved gradually from the end of a product’s development process to its beginning, thus involving quickly and totally all its phases and pointed out the great liability ...

Safe Steering Wheel Airbag Removal Using Active Disassembly

Jones, N.; Harrison, D.; Chiodo, J.; Billett, E. // 2002
Active Disassembly is a well researched technique for creating assemblies or casings that can break themselves apart for recycling using a thermal trigger. In order to remove potentially explosive ...

Selecting Methods for Life Cycle Design Based on the Needs of a Company

Ernzer, M.; Birkhofer, H. // 2002
For the successful use of methods, it is essential to select and customize the methods carefully according to the needs of the company. A tremendous amount of methods for life cycle design have been ...

The Application of the ECODESIGN PILOT and Methodical Support for the Implementation of ECODESIGN in Products

Wimmer, W.; Züst, R.; Strasser Ch. // 2002
The question nowadays is how to bring environmental information to engineers in product development in order to support the decision making towards more environmentally conscious products. The paper ...

The Evaluation of Costs Related to Safety of Mechanical Systems in Design Stages

Fargnoli, M.; Pighini, U. // 2002
Cost is a factor having a great influence on the properties of any Mechanical System, limiting in a significant way designers’ and manufacturers’ choices, who are always limited in their choices. It ...

The Guideline "Design for Upgrading" as a Medium for Sustainable Design

Lindemann, U.; Mörtl, M.; Hessling, T.; Hutterer, P. // 2002
This paper is about the topic to prolong the service life of capital goods - with a special focus to Upgrading. The processes occurring during the generation of a product should be systematically ...

RE-USE OF PRODUCT MODEL THROUGH LIFE-CYCLE STAGES

Ranta, Mervi; Mäntylä, Martti // 1997
This paper discusses the requirements on product model presentations that are suitable for reuse. The aim is to define promising directions for future research by recognizing how the characteristics ...

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.

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