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A Direction of Ideas in Conceptual Design Using Data Envelopment Analysis
Miyashita, Tomoyuki; Satoh, Daisuke // 2009
In conceptual design phase, if designers are much more conscious of design objectives, they won't come up with various ideas about new product. On the other hand, using brainstorming allow to ...
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 Social Perspective on the Interview Technique in Design Research. Part I: Interviews in Design Research
Motte,Damien // 2009
Many studies focusing on design activities use the interview technique as part of their investigation. Nevertheless,methodological discussions about the interview setting as the locus of a social ...
A Social Perspective on the Interview Technique in Design Research. Part II: The Interview as a Social Situation
Motte,Damien // 2009
Many studies focusing on design activities use the interview technique as part of their investigation. Nevertheless,methodological discussions about the interview setting as the locus of a social ...
An Integrated Environment for Shape Modeling and Fluid-dynamic Analysis
Bordegoni,Monica; Caruso,Francesco; Ferrise,Francesco; Ambrogio,Marco // 2009
In order to improve the performances of the overall design process of products, it would be beneficial the availability of computer-aided ools supporting conceptual design and simulation activities ...
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 ...
Analysis of CAX-Interdependencies for An EfficientBusiness-Oriented Training
Troll, Alexander; Zapf, Jochen; Rieg, Frank // 2009
Modern engineering in combination with an effective business can only be managed when there is an efficient way to handle modern tools supporting the product development process. With extended use of ...
Analysis of Virtual Design Collaboration with Team Communication Networks
Uflacker, Matthias; Skogstad, Philipp; Zeier, Alexander; Leifer, Larry // 2009
We present a design information system for persistent team communication capture and the analysis of trends and relationships in multi-modal, digital team information spaces. Based on traces and ...
Approach for Managing Lean Product Design
Germani, Michele; Raffaeli, Roberto; Mengoni, Maura; Graziosi, Serena // 2009
Flexibility is the main keyword in order to face the rapid changing market requirements. Companies need methods and tools in order to implement flexibility over the whole product development process, ...
Architects and Visually Impaired People: Analyzing Two Ways of Talking
Vermeersch, Peter-Willem; Strickfaden, Megan; Herssens, Jasmien; Heylighen, Ann // 2009
While architects think and work in a visual way, people who are visually impaired may pay more attention to other senses and, as a result, are able to appreciate other spatial qualities. Because of ...
Assessment of User Needs for an Electric-Powered Personal Transportation Unit in Urban Environment
Eurich, Markus; Jamali, Nadia; Löf/er, Karin // 2009
This paper presents the results of a usage study of an electric-powered personal transportation unit in urban environment. The study is based on a qualitative and quantitative data analysis, which is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Cataloguing and Selection of Displacement-amplifying Compliant Mechanisms
Jhawar,Neeraj; Ananthasuresh,G. K. // 2009
Selection from among competing alternatives is pursued in this work for a rapidly growing class of compliant mechanisms. By using the framework of storage and retrieval of a database, we present a ...
Collaboration Support System for Analyzing Individual Differences Based on Designers’ Idea Evaluation
Kobayashi, Masakazu; Higashi, Masatake // 2009
In our previous research, we focused on the creative aspects of collaboration and proposed an analytical method of ideas created by designers during collaborative design projects. This method ...
Collaborative Student Centred Learning - Intellectual Property for Product Designers
Humphries-Smith, Tania // 2009
This paper fits into the topics of student centred learning and learning spaces and explores the question - How will the academic/industrial interface develop? At least a basic understanding of ...
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 ...
Comparing creative behaviours observed when D and D sketch modelling and when using CAD
Musta'amal, Aede Hatib; Norman, Eddie; Hodgson, Tony // 2009
At E&PDE08, the authors presented a paper that demonstrated links between the use of computeraided design (CAD) when designing and a 'creative behaviours model' derived from published research into ...
Comparing the information content of formal and informal design documents: Lessons for more complete design records
McAlpine, Hamish Chales; Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Stephen // 2009
Even the most routine engineering design projects generate large volumes of formal and informal information by virtue of an ever-increasing variety of tools and systems. During the design process, ...
Computer Aided Size Range Development - Data Mining vs. Optimization
Kipp, Thomas; Krause, Dieter // 2009
Due to the growing number of demanded product variants, product family design gets more and more in the focus of research. Beside the development of advantageous product family structures the ...
Design Requirement Data and the Older Adult
Thomson, Avril Isabel; Carse, Bruce; Stansfield, Ben // 2009
It is well recognised that many products do not meet the requirements of the rapidly growing older adult population. The research described in this paper aims is to provide designers with relevant ...
Designing an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Engineering and Management
Ekman, Sten; Ekman, Annalill // 2009
The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to design entrepreneurial mindsets in different academic cultures and its motives with focus on engineering and management education. Empirical data are ...
Designing Ergonomic Data Tools for Designers
Dong, Hua; Nickpour, Farnaz; McGinley, Chris // 2009
Ergonomics provides important user data for design. However, when interviewing designers about their use of data in the design process, we found that experienced designers' use of ergonomics ...
Developing a Method for Assessing Product Inclusivity
Waller, Sam; Goodman-Deane, Joy; Langdon, Pat; Johnson, Daniel; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
In order to develop more inclusive products and services, designers need a means of assessing the inclusivity of existing products and new concepts. Following previous research on the development of ...
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.