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Designers in Design Thinking
Braun, Erika; Moreland, Jessica; Sanders, Emma; Gill, Carolina // 2014
esign thinking as a tool for innovation. While its popularity has opened up new and exciting opportunities for all design professions, when design thinking is packaged as a strategy to deliver ...
Designing a Municipality
Jungersen, Ulrik; Hansen, Poul Kyvsgaard // 2014
Can a municipality be designed? The municipality Kolding in the southern part of Denmark asked this question. The idea emerged as a response to a recognized need for new ways of branding and ...
Designing an integrated Project, Program and Portfolio System – A Case Study of Healthcare (Members only )
Gr // 2014
Healthcare organizations are subject to an increasing complexity in the management of patient information. The modern healthcare system is developed through projects in large scale. The complexity is ...
DESIGNING AND SIMULATING SMART HOME ENVIRONMENTS AND RELATED SERVICES
Peruzzini, M.; Capitanelli, A.; Papetti, A.; Germani, M. // 2014
Nowadays smart homes allow achieving higher performances and support the users’ everyday life by device cooperation and related service. However the simulation of their behaviour is neither ...
DESIGNING FOR VALUE, USING ANALYTICS OF MEDICAL DEVICE FIELD DATA
Akinluyi, E.A.; Ison, K.; Clarkson ,P.J. // 2014
The engineering design process outputs plans for a product, to be sold to the customer. However, the ultimate objective is the desired impact that the product delivers throughout its life, after this ...
Designing Home Decor Products for Umbra, within the International Collaboration format as an Academic Experience for Undergraduate Students
Mar, Alejandra // 2014
Product Design Engineering at Universidad EAFIT offers a special undergraduate course that allows students to have their curriculum in a flexible way. The main goal is to design home decor products ...
DEVELOPING A COMFORT EVALUATION METHOD FOR WORK EQUIPMENT HANDLES
Gust, P., // 2014
Comfort optimization for work equipment handles fails in practice because of high temporal complexity and high development costs, coupled with the pressure of shorter development times. In addition, ...
DEVELOPING GUIDELINES FOR PROBLEM SOLVING
Duci, S.; Russo, D. // 2014
A conceptual framework is proposed to explicitly evaluate the completeness of the guidelines for problem solving, with the aim of a better understanding of existing methodologies. The proposed ...
DEVELOPING NPD BEST PRACTICE THROUGH KTP INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA PARTNERSHIPS - A CASE STUDY OF HOWDEN
Fain, N.; Wagner, B.; Liu ,Y. // 2014
This paper discusses a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between University of Strathclyde and Howden, a UK based manufacturing company. The project aim is to develop a bespoke new product ...
DEVELOPING THROUGH PROTOTYPING: A RESOURCE MATERIAL ON USER INVOLVEMENT FOR WORKSPACE DESIGN
Concei // 2014
This paper presents the prototyping process for developing a resource material in planning and performing participatory workspace design processes. This material brings up design dialogues into focus ...
DEVELOPMENT AND USAGE OF A MECHATRONIC DESIGN PROCESS MODEL WITH FOCUS ON ASSUMPTIONS
Anzengruber, K.; Hehenberger, P.; Boschert, S.; Rosen, R.; Zeman, K. // 2014
Nowadays, mechatronics is included in many technical products and, furthermore, mechatronic products are necessary to fulfil a manifold of needs, wishes and requirements of customers (e.g. precision, ...
DEVELOPMENT OF A DATA CAPTURE TOOL FOR RESEARCHING TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Andersen,J.A.B.; Howard, T.J.; McAloone, T.C. // 2014
Startups play a crucial role in exploiting the commercial advantages created by new, advanced technologies. Surprisingly, the processes by which the entrepreneur commercialises these technologies are ...
DEVELOPMENT OF A VENDING MACHINE USING VIRTUAL COLLABORATION
Benedicic, J.; Krek ,J.; Leben, V.; Velez Voros, G.; Beravs, T.; Potocnik, S.; Žavbi, R. // 2014
This industrial paper describes development of an automatic vending machine with emphasis on the percentage of using various communication technologies. It was decided to use development done by a ...
Development of the Material Selection Practice in the Design Education – A Study Exploring Articulation of Material Requirements
Hasling, Karen Marie; Lenau, Torben // 2014
This paper explores how the material selection matrix is used in a materials and sustainability course. The matrix encourages the students to articulate material selection requirements to become more ...
DFX 2014: Proceedings of the 24th Symposium Design for X: Bamburg, Germany 1-2 Oktober 2014 (Members only )
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DIAGNOSIS OF CURRENT SMART HOME APPLIANCE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR APPLICATION OF PSS DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Kim, S.; Baek ,J.S. // 2014
This paper aims at exploring how Product-Service System (PSS) can contribute to Smart Home Appliance (SHA) development. The notion of the SHA is identified and the potential of adopting PSS to SHA ...
Differences and Similarities Between Quality Improvement Methods Originating from the USA and Japan
Andersson, Kirsi; Lintinen, Markku; Lehtonen, Timo; Andersson, Paul H. // 2014
United States and Japan. Six Sigma got its shape in the USA during 1980’s and Science SQC in Japan in the beginning of 1990’s. The latter has been considered as Toyota’s scientific quality management ...
DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THE PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE
Kroták ,S.; Šimlová ,M.; Štádler, C. // 2014
In this paper the possibility of streamlining the implementation of innovations in manufacturing companies to increase their competitiveness by defining and describing a complex product life cycle is ...
Disabled Users as Lead Users in Product Innovation: A Literature Overview
Conradie, Peter; De Couvreur, Lieven; Saldien, Jelle; De Marez, Lieven // 2014
Lead users can be a valuable source for innovation. They are capable of detecting and experiencing needs before the general market does, and are willing to innovate because they can gain significant ...
Discovering Concept Patterns in Spatial Design
Al-Falou (1), Katam; Heck (2), Johannes; Kriesi (1), Carlo; Steinert (1), Martin; Meboldt (2), Mirko // 2014
This research compares data from different case studies relating to the way in which creative spaces have been designed to date. The aim is to reveal the underlying patterns, if such exist, in the ...
Discovering Hidden Tasks and Process Structure through Email Logs for DSM (Members only )
Lan, L.; Liu, Y.; Lu, W. F. // 2014
The design structure matrix (DSM) method is a powerful network modelling tool to highlight the system architecture via presenting the interactions between the elements comprising a system. In DSM, ...
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