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Nature-inspired Process Model for Concept Selection and Evaluation in Engineering Design
Parvan, Manuela Iulia; Miedl, Florian; Lindemann, Udo // 2012
A main challenge in engineering represents the evaluation and selection of concepts in the early phase of product development. This decision making process is highly complex due to the various ...
Necessity is the Mother of Innovation: Constraints and Community Engagement
Allen, T.L.; Chornyak, B.A. // 2012
Within the field of design practice, we are consistently confronted with constraints, imposed by clients, our limited resources and outside circumstances. Usually, these constraints are viewed as ...
NEW INSIGHTS ON THE CONTACT&CHANNEL-APPROACH – MODELLING OF SYSTEMS WITH SEVERAL LOGICAL STATES
Matthiesen, S.; Ruckpaul, A. // 2012
The paper is about the description of logical states with the Contact&Channel-Approach. The approach supports designer during the product development process by enabling to model the connection ...
New Methods to Improve Teaching Quality in the New Era - A Study based on Aalto-Tongji Design Factory Teaching Pedagogical Development Project
Duan, WU // 2012
The Aalto-Tongji Design Factory in Shanghai is a creative environment bringing together universities, business and society to create new ways of learning, research and innovative collaboration. As ...
New Opportunities for Norwegian Wool: An Investigation of Product and Market Pissibilities
Rřsvik, Birgitte Linde; Boks, Casper // 2012
This paper aims to provide knowledge on how Norwegian wool can contribute to a more environmental sustainable textile consumption and increase value creation in Norwegian wool production, textile ...
No Time Like the Present': An Investigation into Time as a Constituent of the Creative Process
Treadaway, C.; Smith, K. // 2012
This paper describes an on-going practice based investigation exploring the ways in which time influences the creative process. The research reveals how time issues have potential to both stimulate ...
NON-PROBABILISTIC UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS IN EARLY DESIGN STAGES
Eifle,r T.; Wiebel ,M.; Haydn, M.; Hauer, T.; Birkhofer, H.; Bohn, A. // 2012
For the development of robust products, acting disturbances within the product life cycle must be considered. However, well known methods of probabilistic uncertainty analysis often cannot be applied ...
NUCLEOCYCLE - THE BUILDING BLOCK OF PROCESS MODELS
Sadlauer, A.; Hehenberger, P.; Zeman, K. // 2012
This paper presents a micromanagement method for product design that is based on the problem solving cycle of VDI 2206 with the distinction between executing agents and managers. The method addresses ...
Numerische Untersuchung der Einflüsse von Streuungen auf Versagenskriterien von Composite Strukturen (Members only )
Kellermeyer, Markus; Wartzack, Sandro // 2012
The following paper gives an overview for methods used for robustness evaluation of failure cirterias of composite structures. Due to the scatter of the input parameters that is given by nature - ...
Nutzung von „Merkmalen“ und „Eigenschaften“ zur Beschreibung und Analyse von Produktvarianz (Members only )
Gebhardt, Nicolas; Malone, Karen; Krause, Dieter // 2012
To meet the changing requirements of today’s markets, variety-oriented product development becomes more and more important. The integrated PKT-approach for Developing Modular ...
On Managing Innovation by Design: Towards SMART Methods
Vermaas, Pieter E. // 2012
In this paper innovation by design is characterised schematically and methodological with the aim of analysing how projects of innovation by design can be managed. First, I approach innovation by ...
ON THE MARKET ASPECT OF PRODUCT PROGRAM DESIGN: TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF AN ARCHITECTURE OF THE MARKET
Hansen, C. L.; Mortensen, N. H.; Hvam, L. // 2012
This paper will propose to expand the existing notion of coordinating product and production architectures as a means to develop profitable architectures by including an architecture of the market. ...
ON THE USE OF DESIGN THEORIES TO SUPPORT INNOVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES
Kazakci, A. O.; Le Masson, P. // 2012
The paper considers the ongoing debate about the utility of general design theories. We defend the idea that design theories allow modeling design strategies, thus facilitating their elicitation and ...
OPEN DESIGN AND CROWDSOURCING: MATURITY, METHODOLOGY AND BUSINESS MODELS
Howard, T. J.; Achiche ,S.; Özkil ,A.; McAloone ,T. C. // 2012
This paper describes how Crowd sourcing is now a mature field and how it can and should be used to support innovation and product development. The paper then explores the new paradigm of Open Design ...
OPEN INNOVATION PRACTICES IN A CLUSTER CONTEXT: A MEDICON VALLEY CASE STUDY
Achiche, S.; Howard ,T. J.; Ástvaldsdóttir ,A.; Andersen, O.; McAloone, T. C. // 2012
Open Innovation is a paradigm promoting the use of external as well as internal ideas and paths to market. This paper explores the trends of open innovation in the Medicon Valley cluster through ...
Open Source Development of Tangible Products
Fjeldsted, Asta; Adalsteinsdottir, Gudrun; Howard, Thomas J.; McAloone, Tim // 2012
This article’s objective is to set up some foundational theory and practices for Open Source Development (OSD) of tangible products, a novel and emerging approach derived from the well-known open ...
Opportunity Design: what, where and how?
Mřller Nielsen, Louise; Heidemann Lassen, Astrid; Tollestrup, Christian; Lřwe Nielsen, Suna // 2012
Creating and growing new businesses is basically about turning an entrepreneurial opportunity into future business. In literature the emergence of opportunities is often described as opportunity ...
OPTIMAL DESIGN OF MODULAR CONFIGURATION CONSIDERING HIERARCHICY OF A PRODUCT FUNCTION STRUCTURE
Kobayashi ,M.; Matsumoto, Y.; Higashi, M. // 2012
This paper proposes a new optimal design method of a modular configuration considering hierarchy of a product function structure. In the proposed method, modules are configured based on a product ...
OPTIMIZATION APPROACH FOR FUNCTION-PARTITIONING IN AN AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRIC ELECTRONIC SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE
Brandt, L. S.; Krämer, N.; Metzger, J.; Lindemann ,U. // 2012
The objective of this article is the development of a cost optimization approach for function-partitioning of an EE-system-architecture (EE-SA) taking technical and economic factors into account. ...
OPTIMIZING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE FOR ADAPTABILITY
Engel ,A.; Reich, Y.; Browning, T. R.; Schmidt, D. M. // 2012
System architecture decisions such as the assignment of components to modules can have a large impact on the system's adaptability. We broaden systems architecting theory by considering ...
ORIGINALITY AND NOVELTY: A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE
Verhaegen, P. -A.; Vandevenne ,D.; Duflou, J. R. // 2012
In order to validate and steer the development of ideation methods, in recent years, a number of quantitative metrics were developed aimed at measuring the effectiveness thereof, e.g. novelty and ...
PARAMETER-DRIVEN MECHANISM SYNTHESIS IN CAD
Lonij ,G.; Kurtenbach ,S.; Corves, B. // 2012
In this paper we show the design procedures for a six bar linkage of a bottle handling mechanism. The approach provides an interactive model, which includes reusable partial models. Through the CAD ...
PARTBOOK - A SOCIAL MEDIA APPROACH FOR CAPTURING INFORMAL PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE
Gopsill, J. A.; McAlpine ,H. C.; Hicks, B. J. // 2012
There is a gap within the current capability of engineering companies’ information system infrastructure where there is no system that currently captures, manages and shares the full scope of ...
Participate! A critical investigation into the relationship between participation and empowerment in design for development
Fladvad Nielsen, Brita // 2012
Participatory design methods are embraced by most design practitioners and academics working with design for development; design aiming for empowerment and poverty alleviation. That participatory ...
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