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Concept for investigating the application of methods in product development
Gust, Peter; Kuhlmeier, Marco; Garbe, Marie; Kampa, Sebastian // 2017
The use of methods is a success factor in modern product development and is of decisive importance for the overall economic success of a company. The positive effects of using a method have been ...
Connecting strategy and execution in global R&D
Sbernini, Federico; Granini, Nicola; Hansen, Zaza Nadja Lee // 2017
The paper investigates the relationship between global product development strategic decisions, which include outsourcing, offshoring practices as well as strategic alliances, and their impact on the ...
Context-specific process design: An integrated process lifecycle model and situations for context factor use
Hollauer, Christoph; Wilberg, Julian; Omer, Mayada; Lindemann, Udo // 2017
The development of complex systems such as e.g. Product-Service Systems relies on complex processes. Corresponding design contexts are often complex and evolving over time, with factors such as e.g. ...
Coping with the challenges of engineering smart product service systems - Demands for research infrastructure
Kuhlenkötter, Bernd; Bender, Beate; Wilkens, Uta; Abramovici, Michael; Göbel, Jens Christian; Herzog, Michael; Hypki, Alfred; Lenkenhoff, Kay // 2017
Driven by innovations of information and communication technologies as well as increasingly demanding customer expectations on individualized products and services Smart Product Service Systems ...
Correlation between team composition and team performance in virtual student product development teams
Vukasinovic, Nikola; Cok, Vanja; Zavbi, Roman // 2017
This paper is presenting an experiment which was performed to investigate the correlation between team composition and team performance in specific case of virtual student teams working on industrial ...
Cost based design of modular product families using the example of test rigs
Hanna, Michael; Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter // 2017
Companies with a wide range of variety on the markets have to reduce their internal variety for reducing their costs. This can be reached through modular product families, where more than one concept ...
Creativity as a way to innovate successfully
Guenther, Agnes; Eisenbart, Boris; Dong, Andy // 2017
Selecting innovative design concepts for further development entails decision making under conditions of sometimes extreme uncertainty pertaining to technical feasibility and market potential. In ...
Current state of practices in open source product development
Bonvoisin, Jérémy (1); Thomas, Laetitia (2); Mies, Robert (1); Gros, Céline (2); Stark, Rainer (1); Samuel, Karine (2); Jochem, Roland (1); Boujut, Jean-François (2) // 2017
Open source innovation is a well-studied phenomenon of the ICT sector, but its evolution towards the field of tangible hardware product development is a newer phenomenon which remains mostly ...
Cyber-physical effects on the virtual commissioning architecture
Illmer, Benjamin; Kaspar, Jerome; Vielhaber, Michael // 2017
In order to satisfy the growing customization desire and, thus, effecting an increasing product variability, future manufacturing systems have to be harmonized with new technologies such as ...
Data-driven engineering design research: Opportunities using open data
Parraguez, Pedro; Maier, Anja // 2017
Engineering Design research relies on quantitative and qualitative data to describe design-related phenomena and prescribe improvements for design practice. Given data availability, privacy ...
Decentralized handling of conflicts in multi-brand engineering change management
Hesselmann, Carsten; Kehl, Stefan; Stiefel, Patrick; Müller, Jörg // 2017
Changes on components that are commonly used in different products in multi-brand product development, cause various types of conflicts. This paper considers conflicts of interest among individuals ...
Decision design and re-ordering preferences: The case of an exploration project in a large firm
Le Glatin, Mario; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoît // 2017
Decision theory has been long applied to project management for risk and uncertainty reduction. Among the foundations, the manager is considered following axioms describing his rationality; the most ...
Defining the requirement for a direct vision standard for trucks using a DHM based blind spot analysis
Summerskill, Stephen; Marshall, Russell // 2017
The aim of the study was to understand the nature of blindspots in the vision of drivers of trucks caused by vehicle design variables such as cab design. The paper is the second of two submitted to ...
Definition and support of differentiation and integration in mechanical structure using S-curve theory and wavelet transform
Ishii, Takahiro; Parque, Victor; Miura, Satoshi; Miyashita, Tomoyuki // 2017
The differentiation and the integration of products are the essential procedures for product innovation. To understand the product innovation, the approaches using S-curve theory, which explain the ...
Democratisation of design for functional objects manufactured by fused deposition modelling (FDM): Lessons from the design of three everyday artefacts
Goudswaard, Mark; Hicks, Ben; Gopsill, James; Nassehi, Aydin // 2017
The purpose of this paper is to explore how the democratisation of design can be achieved for useful items manufactured by Filament Deposition Modelling (FDM). This is achieved through a design study ...
Derivation, analysis and comparison of geometric requirements for various vehicle drivetrains using dimensional chains
Felgenhauer, Matthias; Schöpe, Frank; Bayerlein, Michaela; Lienkamp, Markus // 2017
Following the development of new drivetrain concepts (e.g. BEV and FCEV) the comparison of drivetrains becomes increasingly important during the vehicle architecture design. Thereby, the geometrical ...
Design analytics is the answer, but what questions would product developers like to have answered?
Arnarsson, Ívar Örn; Gustavsson, Emil; Malmqvist, Johan; Jirstrand, Mats // 2017
There is a growing need for data expertise and data analysis. Companies are looking more towards analytics for improvement opportunities within the business and products. Data collection is growing ...
Design challenges in energy conservation strategies for shared spaces
Withanage, Chathura; Blessing, Lucienne; Wood, Kristin // 2017
Business and service buildings, mainly consisting of shared spaces, account for 38% of the total Singapore energy consumption. However, compared to energy use studies in private spaces (i.e., ...
Design finds a way: Creative strategies to cope with barriers to creativity
Gonçalves, Milene // 2017
Creativity is quintessential in design ideation, as it fuels innovation in an ever-changing world. However, designers often experience states of being stuck and fixated, either on their own ...
Design fixation to examples: A study on the time decay of fixation
Viswanathan, Vimal Kumar // 2017
When designers fixate during an idea generation session, they replicate the features of any available example or their prior ideas. This paper presents an empirical study to understand the variation ...
Design for complex product rebirth or how to protect resources
Mascle, Christian // 2017
This paper presents research conducted on a new design method for rebirth of complex products. Design for rebirth is a thinking method for protecting resources. Reuse, remanufacturing, upgrading and ...
Design for Control
Stetter, Ralf; Simundsson, Avery // 2017
Currently, a large series of helpful guidelines for the design of products in the more concrete stages of design and product development were generated and published under the notion design for X, ...
Design for micro-enterprise: a field study of user preference behavior
Austin-Breneman, Jesse; Yang, Maria // 2017
Product development serving the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) is an increasing part of many organizations’ growth strategies, from social enterprises to large multi-national companies. In response to ...
Design for privacy in public space
Cho, Kwangmin; Kim, Chajoong // 2017
The role of public space in contemporary society is important to a person’s well-being as it provides useful function. However, privacy issues is problem when user use the public space. This study ...
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.