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A WATER SAVING SOLUTION WITH A TRIZ BASED METHOD
Russo, Davide; Spreafico, Christian; Mores, Nicola // 2015
The number and breadth of eco-improvement methods has been steadily rising over the past deCADes. However a lot of eco-friendly product are struggling to find their collocation on the market. This ...
ACADEMIC DESIGN
Koskinen, Ilpo K; Dorst, Kees // 2015
This paper proposes to reshape the discussion design schools about the relationship of design practice to research. Many universities now have very successful design departments that educate ...
ACTOR-BASED SIGNPOSTING: A MODELING TOOL TO IMPROVE THE SOCIO-TECHNICAL DESIGN PROCESSES
Hassannezhad, Mohammad; Cantamessa, Marco; Montagna, Francesca // 2015
Socio-technical aspect of engineering design is an inter-disciplinary domain, an integrated organization of human- and non-human interactions. Modeling socio-technical design processes can therefore ...
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING DESIGN FEATURE SELECTION FOR VARIABLE PRODUCT PLATFORMS
Yao, Xiling; Moon, Seung Ki; Bi, Guijun // 2015
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enable new capabilities in producing innovative products with complex geometries, superior performance, and low material wastage. In this research, design for ...
ADVANCED BUSINESS COACHING APPROACH IN COMBINATION WITH SYSTEMIC CONSTELLATION WORK TO IMPROVE THE BUSINESS ENGINEERING PROCESS
Burchardt, Carsten. // 2015
Business coaching and consulting as a systemic constellation approach is a solution-focused process, which helps leaders of organizations to identify the complex, often informal, relationships and ...
AIDING DESIGNERS TO MAKE PRACTITIONER-LIKE INTERPRETATIONS OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT RESULTS
Uchil, Praveen; Chakrabarti, Amaresh; Fantke, Peter // 2015
Detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) provide tools to quantitatively illustrate the environmental impacts of a product throughout its life cycle. Effectively interpreting the results of a detailed ...
AN AGENT-BASED APPROACH TO SUPPORT PLANNING FOR CHANGE DURING EARLY DESIGN
Fernandes, João; Henriques, Elsa; Silva, Arlindo; Pimentel, César // 2015
Early design is the most dynamic and unpredictable stage of complex design processes, since it involves a great deal of uncertainty, collaborative iteration and adaptive organizational behaviour. ...
AN ALGORITHM FOR BEHAVIOUR PREDICTION OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS
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The objective of the research presented in this paper is to develop an algorithm for predicting behaviour of complex technical systems in an uncertain working environment. System s dynamic behaviour ...
AN APPROACH FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF AXIOMATIC DESIGN
Weber, Jakob; Kößler, Johannes; Paetzold, Kristin // 2015
This paper presents an Axiomatic Design based approach which aims to simplify the application of this methodology in everyday working life of engineers. As a basis Axiomatic Design Theory is chosen ...
AN APPROACH TO ANALYSING INTERFACE UNCERTAINTY USING THE CONTACT AND CHANNEL MODEL
Freund, Tillmann; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Lotz, Julian; Wuertenberger, Jan // 2015
The authors give a short introduction to uncertainty and introduce uncertainty terms for modular systems: Interface Uncertainty and Configuration Uncertainty. In order to control these forms of ...
AN APPROACH TO THE PROPERTY-BASED PLANNING OF SIMULATIONS
Reitmeier, Jochen; Chahin, Abdo; Paetzold, Kristin // 2015
The requirements related to technical systems are very diverse. This ultimately leads to an increase in complexity in products and in development processes. Due to time and cost pressure, effective ...
AN AUTOMATED FUNCTION DECOMPOSITION METHOD BASED ON A FORMAL REPRESENTATION OF SOLID MATERIAL‘S SHAPE
Yuan, Lin; Zhang, Zhinan; Liu, Yusheng // 2015
The objective of this work is to develop a formal representation of the material flow’s shape in the conceptual design stage, specifically to meet the needs of function modelling in order to support ...
AN ENGINEERING DESIGN APPROACH TO LITHIUM-ION CELLS - MODULAR KIT CONFIGURATION FOR AN INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION
Tschech, Matthias; Vietor, Thomas // 2015
Introducing a significant fleet share of electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles seems indispensable for vehicle manufacturers to fulfil CO2-emission regulations. The cost situation for ...
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF THE SPECIFICATIONS PROCESS IN A CUSTOMER-SUPPLIER COLLABORATIVE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Yager, Matthieu; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Merminod, Valéry // 2015
In this paper we focus on the collaborative process of definition of specifications of a complex product. The aim of the paper is to improve the understanding of the specifications elaboration ...
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY TO EVALUATE THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PSS METHODS AND TOOLS BASED ON TEXT MINING
Marques, Caio Augusto Nunes; Matsuno, Ivone Penque; Sinoara, Roberta Akemi; Rezende, Solange Oliveira; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2015
Product Service System (PSS) is an approach in which the focus is on producing and delivering value in use instead of transferring physical goods ownership. In other to design PSS, some authors have ...
AN IDEA GENERATION METHOD FOR THE LATE PHASES OF ENGINEERING DESIGN
Meyer, Andreas Wilhelm; Wuensch, Andreas; Vajna, Sándor; Koenig, Oliver // 2015
Creativity processes and idea generation techniques play an important role in innovation processes. They are necessary to get economic success. There are more than hundred techniques for creativity ...
AN INTEGRATED RFBSE MODEL FOR MANAGING AND REUSING ENGINEERING DESIGN KNOWLEDGE
Qin, Hao; Wang, Hongwei; Liu, Yusheng // 2015
Design efficiency has significant influence on a company s sustainable competitiveness. Reusing part of the previous product design can undoubtedly improve design efficiency, and thus the need of ...
AN INTELLIGENT DESIGN ENVIRONMENT FOR CHANGEABILITY MANAGEMENT - APPLICATION TO MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS
Benkamoun, Nadège; Kouiss, Khalid; Huyet, Anne-Lise // 2015
Design for system changeability and reusability has been sought by engineers from several disciplines. It has lead to the emergence of numerous strategies and paradigms. Especially in conceptual ...
AN INVESTIGATION OF DESIGN PROCESS CHANGES
Shapiro, Daniel; Sommer, Anita Friis; Clarkson, Peter John // 2015
Research on changes in design has focused on engineering changes, i.e. changes in the product domain, which is the manifestation of the design process. This article takes a different perspective and ...
AN INVESTIGATION OF DIET APPS FOR ENHANCING PEOPLE'S HEALTH AND WELLBEING.
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Since inactivity and unhealthy eating are amongst the biggest health problems of our era, weight monitoring applications are becoming favoured options. However, in order to ensure people s health ...
ANALYSING THE EFFECTS OF VALUE DRIVERS AND KNOWLEDGE MATURITY IN PRELIMINARY DESIGN DECISION-MAKING
Bertoni, Alessandro; Bertoni, Marco; Johansson, Christian // 2015
The paper presents the results of a three-days experiment to test the use of information from a value assessment model and from a knowledge maturity scale in decision-making in preliminary design. A ...
ANALYSIS OF THE PERCEPTION OF FUTURE DESIGNERS ABOUT USAGE SCENARIO INTEGRATION IN PRODUCT DESIGN (SIPD)
Royo, Marta; Mulet, Elena; Galán, Julia; Felip, Francisco; García-García, Carlos // 2015
It is expected that in the near future new products that would be able to adapt to different usage scenarios in order be more used will increase. For example, nowadays new modular smartphones are ...
ANALYZING THE GENERATIVE EFFECTS OF SKETCHES WITH DESIGN THEORY: SKETCHING TO FOSTER KNOWLEDGE REORDERING
Brun, Juliette; Le Masson, Pascal; Weil, Benoit // 2015
Sketching constitutes an essential work tool for designers. On the first hand, sketches allow to externalize ideas, being then very economic cognitively. If they help to process information very ...
APPLICATION OF SUBTRACT AND OPERATE METHOD FOR DEVELOPING FUNCTION ENERGY STRUCTURES OF PRODUCTS AND SYSTEMS - A RULE-GUIDED APPROACH
Markos, Panagiotis; Dentsoras, Argyris // 2015
The relation between functionality and energy efficiency of products and systems is examined. An extended configuration of Function Structure scheme is proposed and named as Function Energy Structure ...
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.