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Tolerance Optimization of a Mobile Phone Considering Consumer Demand for Quality and Sustainability in China, Sweden, and the United States

Hoffenson, Steven; Dagman, Andreas; Söderberg, Rikard // 2013
Dimensional tolerances are chosen during the product development process to balance quality requirements against manufacturing costs. Designers typically judge how much variance should be allowed ...

Tools for assessing student learning in mechanical design courses

Holland, Dónal; Walsh, Conor J.; Bennett, Gareth J. // 2013
Assessing student learning and evaluating the effects of innovation in teaching remain a challenge for design educators and researchers. This paper describes the development of a set of assessment ...

Topographic optimization with variable boundary conditions: Enabling optimal design of interacting components

Leary, Martin John; Shidid, Darpan; Mazur, Maciej; Brandt, Milan; Subic, Aleksandar // 2013
Topographic optimization provides a valuable opportunity for the design of optimal structures. A significant limitation in the current generation of topographic optimization algorithms is the ...

Towards a design model for student graduation projects – a case study

Sivaloganathan, Sangarapillai; Shahin, Tamer // 2013
A Graduation Project (or senior capstone design project) is an important constituent of an engineering program. It has several unique characteristics such as: the end product is a proof of product ...

Towards a more event-driven NPD process: First experiences with attempts of implementation in the front-end phase

Ringen, Geir; Welo, Torgeir // 2013
The search for effective and reliable innovation processes has concerned companies for decades. Stage-Gate (SG) is one of the most common models employed to structure new product development (NPD) ...

Towards a new perspective of managing ideas in front-end innovation as actor networks

Vagn, Anna Rose; Clausen, Christian; Gish, Liv // 2013
For decades the innovation process in R&D organisations has been discussed. Product development processes is well-established in R&D organisations and improvements has been implemented through ...

Towards a unified theory of properties in engineering design science

Suistoranta, Seppo // 2013
This study deals with the current theories of properties that are introduced and presented in the literature of engineering design science. Based on the findings, the paper addresses four fundamental ...

Towards an approach to integrate technological evolution into product design

Chapuis, Yannick; Demoly, Frédéric; Gomes, Samuel // 2013
The development, manufacturing and production of high value-added products, such as intelligent product, technological product and product-services, are part of the highest priority of today’s ...

Towards an internationalised product design curriculum

Loy, Jennifer; Welch, Donald // 2013
Students starting their Product Design studies in Australia next year will be graduating into a very internationalised profession. Production has moved increasingly off shore, markets are ...

Towards documentation support for educational design thinking projects

Beyhl, Thomas; Berg, Gregor; Giese, Holger // 2013
The design thinking methodology is an incubator for innovative products and services. Design thinking is based on in-depth interactions with prospective end-users and therefore usually results in ...

Towards structured integration of maintenance knowledge in industrial equipment design

Mulder, Wienik; Basten, Rob J. I.; Jauregui Becker, Juan M.; Van Dongen, Leo A. M. // 2013
Industrial equipment requires maintenance to remain operational. The level of maintenance that is required, and how easily it can be executed, is affected by the characteristics of the equipment. ...

Towards the development of commonal product programs

Eilmus, Sandra; Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter // 2013
Today many companies encounter the challenge of reducing internal variety by developing modular product families. Yet even more potential for reducing internal variety can be gained by even striving ...

Tracking productivity patterns in an engineering design project

Berglund, Anders; Blackne, Johannes; Jansson, Niklas // 2013
This paper aims to analyze if self-evaluation of perceived productivity could help detect alarming patterns in time and stop projects from failing. The study is based on descriptive quantitative data ...

Training for reflective competency in design teams: An empirical study

Weixelbaum, Ilona; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Dörner, Dietrich // 2013
The need for flexibility in designers’ acting and thinking processes can be seen as a core requirement for successful design practice. For designers collaborating in a team gaining cognitive ...

Transforming user requirements into technical requirements for development of a new control access for people with reduced environmental impact

Breier, Guilherme; Echevest, Marcia Elisa; ten Caten, Carla // 2013
This paper presents a proposal for evaluation of product development in the electronics industry based on the application of the tool QFD (Quality Function Deployment) oriented environmental ...

Transitioning product education to product service education

Ryan, Linda; Tormey, David; Share, Perry // 2013
The defining lines between product and service are becoming increasingly blurred. The importance of services is increasing within manufacturing companies and trends are moving towards a more product ...

Triangulating front end engineering design activities with physiology data and psychological preferences

Steinert, Martin; Jablokow, Kathryn // 2013
lot data from an exploratory triangulation of front end engineering design activities with physiology data and psychological preferences. The aim is to gain more measurement control over engineering ...

Tutorial sustainable innovations - An innovative role-play concept for education

Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Hanusch, Dirk // 2013
Developing sustainable products is no easy task. For designers, this means that not only technical requirements for functional performance but also ecological, economic and social requirements have ...

Uncertainty modeling to enable software development platforms that can automate complex mechanical systems design

Otto, Kevin; Levandowski, Christoffer; Forslund, Anders; Johannesson, Hans; Söderberg, Rikard // 2013
Development platforms are automated software tools used to synthesize new designs. They are prevalent in the embedded system design domain, with applications ranging from integrated circuits, circuit ...

Understanding fixation effects in creativity: A design-theory approach

Agogue, Marine; Cassotti, Mathieu // 2013
Despite diverse studies grasping at different aspects of fixation in creativity and design reasoning, the underlying mechanisms of fixation, i.e. the processes that lead to being fixed on a small ...

Understanding task structure in DSM: Mining dependency using process event logs

Lan, Lijun; Liu, Ying; Loh, Han Tong // 2013
Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) has been widely used to analyze and present the inter-structure of design projects which are often characterized by many interrelated tasks. One essential role of ...

Understanding the context of product development

Gericke, Kilian; Meißner, Moritz; Paetzold, Kristin // 2013
Adaptation of design methodologies to the context in which they should be actually applied is seen as a necessity in order to enhance its acceptance and to widen its application. Even though, a ...

Universal dilettantes and blinkered specialists: historic models and future potential of interdisciplinary design education

Oswald, David // 2013
Interdisciplinarity in design education has been a controversial discussion topic for decades. The discourse on the risks and chances of interdisciplinarity has often been headed by strong terms such ...

Universal product developmen t-€“ A want- or wish-based development task

Ottosson, Stig // 2013
To develop universal products that suit everybody is complex for which the guidelines and theories for need-based development are not designed. Instead development principles developed for New ...

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