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A Design Science Approach to Analytical Product Design
Frischknecht, Bart; Gonzalez, Rich; Papalambros, Panos; Reid, Tahira // 2009
Product design involves many diverse disciplines and is often treated as an experience-based skill based on an apprenticeship learning process. While this is a valuable approach, it can be greatly ...
A Dialectical Approach to Solve Inventive Problems Using Genetic Algorithms and TRIZ: Searching for a Computer Aided Innovation Shell
Duran-Novoa, Roberto Alejandro; Leon-Rovira, Noel; Uresti, Eduardo // 2009
Inventive problems need creativity to be solved, which is usually believed to be beyond comprehension and, thus, methodology. TRIZ and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) have shown that this is at least ...
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 Framework for Balancing Efficiency and Effectiveness in Innovative Product Design
Marion, Tucker J. // 2009
Improved design innovation through the use of new product development activities, methods, and tools has been an area of fertile research for the past several decades for both academics and ...
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 Generic Tool to Study Human Design Activities
Kan, Jeff Wai Tak; Gero, John S. // 2009
This paper reports on the results of using an ontologically-based generic approach to carry out protocol analyses of designers. The Function-Behavior-Structure (FBS) ontology has been proposed as the ...
A Highly Flexible Project Maturity Management Method for the Early Phase of Product Development
Jahn, Tobias; Binz, Hansgeorg // 2009
The development process of innovative systems, especially in the very early phase, is characterized by high uncertainty and has high influence on the succeeding development tasks. But still it lacks ...
A Hybrid Negotiation-Auction Mechanism for Design Sourcing
Chen, Songlin; Tseng, Mitchell // 2009
The source of innovation is increasingly coming from outside instead of within, which makes it an imperative for companies to effectively source designs. However, design sourcing involves complex and ...
A Leading Role for Design as an Economic Development Enabler
Wood, Bruce Macleod // 2009
Economic development agencies at national and regional levels have recognised the importance of design and creativity as a driver toward growth, wealth creation and potentially company and job ...
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 Method for Identifying Improvement Potentials within Product Development Processes
Gries, Bruno; Gericke, Kilian // 2009
When a company tries to improve its product development process one of the first challenges is to become clear about two things: what "improvement" means and where within the overall ...
A Method to define a Product Architecture Early in Product Development Using the Contact and Channel Model
Albers, Albert; Sedchaicharn, Korkiat; Sauter, Christian; Burger, Wolfgang // 2009
Defining a product architecture is one of the most important decisions during product development. Most researches in this field are focused on the modification of a product architecture, meaning ...
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 Methodology for the Development of Automated Consumer Products
Nagel, Robert Lewis; Stone, Robert B. // 2009
This paper presents research on a methodology to develop functional models to be utilized during conceptual design activities for products aimed at automating or assisting with currently manual ...
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 Modeling Method to Manage Change Propagation
Koh, Edwin C.Y.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
Many new products are developed through modifications of existing ones. However, the engineering changes required to implement such modifications can sometimes propagate, requiring further changes to ...
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 New Computer-Aided Approach to Support Designers in Conceptual Design of Complex Mechatronic Products
Albers, Albert; Enkler, Hans-Georg; Frietsch, Markus; Sauter, Christian // 2009
As in every new development of complex mechatronic systems designers have to face several challenges. Especially in system design and conceptual design activities designers often resort to already ...
A New Reverse Engineering Methodology Based on Knowledge Extraction and Geometrical Recognition Approaches
Durupt, Alexandre; Remy, Sebastien; Ducellier, Guillaume; Guyot, Emmanuel // 2009
Reverse engineering (RE) is a research field where physical models are measured or digitized in order to be virtually rebuilt to obtain a CAD model. Today, rebuilt CAD models using current ...
A Planarity-Based Complexity Metric
Kortler, Sebastian; Kreimeyer, Matthias; Lindemann, Udo // 2009
Complexity in product design, e.g. in product architectures or process structures, continuously increases. To properly evaluate a complex system or to compare it to other systems, complexity metrics ...
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 Function Deployment Method Pattern Language for EfficientDesign
Rogers, Damian; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is widely used throughout design processes to increase customer satisfaction. However, the method is sometimes not clearly understood and is at times confusing in ...
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 ...
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.