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Application of MRFSV Tool to Study Effectiveness of Marketing Research Findings in Product Design
Kalita, Pratul Chandra; Das, Amarendra Kumar // 2011
Marketing Research is always a debatable topic. Serious questions are raised about the relevance of marketing research in successful introduction of products and services in the society. It has been ...
Application of Multi-Domain MatrixWaste Reduction Methodology
Elezi,Fatos; Graebsch,Martin; Hellenbrand,David; Lindemann,Udo // 2011
As part of an industrial cooperation project with a German Car Manufacturer, the authors of this paper applied a matrix-based waste reduction methodology to the case study Multi-Domain Matrix (MDM) ...
Application of QFD for Enabling Environmentally Conscious Design
Rathod,Gopinath ;Vinodh,S; Madhyasta.U. R // 2011
Increasing competition among themanufacturing organizations recognizes environmental consciousness as an important concept for surviving in the competitive world. Environmental friendliness has ...
Application of QFD to Mechanize the Manufacturing of the Jaipur Foot
Amirthakasi,Pankajalakshmi; Jetti,Sagar Santi ; Srinivasan,Sujatha // 2011
The currentmanufacturing process of the Jaipur foot involves laborious, repetitive and non-standard techniques.Most of the process steps involve manual trial and error methods. This results in ...
APPLIED TESTS OF ENGINEERING DESIGN SKILLS:VISUAL THINKING CHARACTERIZATION, TEST
Shah, Jami; Woodward, Jay; Smith, SM // 2011
A number of cognitive skills relevant to conceptual design have been previously identified. We have already reported on the contents, rationale and validation of divergent thinking test. This paper ...
APPLYING CONTEXT TO ORGANIZE UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION IN AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
Xie, Yifan; Culley, Steve; Weber, Frithjof // 2011
A large portion of information created in business activity is unstructured with much useful information buried inside. Within the aerospace industry, an added challenge is that long product ...
APPRICATION TO A CAR BODY FRAME BASED ON PARAMETER GUIDELINES FOR DERIVING DIVERSE SOLUTIONS USING EMERGENT DESIGN SYSTEM
Sato, Koichiro; Matsuka, Yoshiyuki // 2011
In the early design process, diverse design ideas are generated from a global solution search under unclear design conditions. Because it is difficult to apply conventional engineering design in the ...
Approach for a Modularization Driven System Definition Using Multiple Domains
Bauer, W.; Daniilidis, C.; Lindemann, U. // 2011
Modularization of products or product families is common and frequently applied when designing product architecture and interfaces. Modularization is driven by various targets to face both, industry ...
APPROACH FOR THE CREATION OF MECHATRONIC SYSTEM MODELS
Follmer, Martin; Hehenberger, Peter; Punz, Stefan; Rosen, Roland; Zeman, Klaus // 2011
One of the major challenges in developing mechatronic products is the increasing complexity of the products themselves. The defining feature of mechatronic products is the interplay between various ...
APPROACH TO VISUALIZE THE SUPPLY CHAIN COMPLEXITY INDUCED BY PRODUCT VARIETY
Brosch, Max; Beckmann, Gregor; Krause, Dieter // 2011
Due to the high level of individualization and globalization, companies increase their product variety, which leads to an increased internal complexity at the level of the products, business ...
Approaches to a Cross-Cultural Engineering Design Theory
Brezing, Alexander Nikolaus; Childs, Peter; Yim, Hyunjune; Bland, Paul Wilson; Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick // 2011
Engineering Design Theory as an integral part of engineering education serves the purpose of structuring the actions and thinking processes of practitioners in order to increase the efficiency of the ...
AR Application for Pre-Post Processing in Engineering Analysis for Non-Expert Users
Ferrise,Francesco; Bordegoni,Monica; Ambrogio,Marco; Caruso,Giandomenico // 2011
The aim of the work presented in this paper is to develop and test new interaction paradigms based on Augmented Reality techniques for handling parameters and results in the pre and post-processing ...
Are Entrepreneurship and Transformative Innovation Appropriate as Prime Foci for Product Design Curricula?
Lawson, Stuart // 2011
Should the teaching of business skills and knowledge within the context of Product Design BA and Masters-level curricula be focussed more towards entrepreneurship and transformative innovation than ...
AROUND YOU: HOW DESIGNERS GET INSPIRED
Gonçalves, Milene Guerreiro; Cardoso, Carlos; Badke-Schaub, Petra // 2011
Searching for sources for inspiration during the design process is a widespread activity and it is considered as a crucial step for most designers, independent of the degree of expertise. However, ...
Assessing creativity: proposition
Askland, Hedda Haugen; Ostwald, Michael J; Williams, Anthony // 2011
The assessment of creative works is one of the most contentious issues facing contemporary design educators. This problem was first recognised by Donald Schön (1985, 1987) in his early work of ...
ASSESSING QUALITY OF IDEAS IN CONCEPTUAL MECHANICAL DESIGN
Lewis, William P; Field, Bruce W; Weir, John G // 2011
A recurring theme in engineering design is the need to upgrade the performance of existing systems and products as potential defects overlooked in the original design come to light during operation ...
Assessing the Benefits of Early Stage Design Research
Thandapani,Selvan; Woodbridge,Richard // 2011
The benefits of user-centered design in design and testing for Base-of Pyramid (BoP) related products have been generally established. However, conducting extensive field tests in rural villages can ...
ASSESSING THE CONDITIONS FOR DISSEMINATION OF END-USER AND PURCHASER KNOWLEDGE IN A MEDTECH CONTEXT
Wadell, Carl; Norell Bergendahl, Margareta // 2011
A challenge for many medical technology companies is to satisfy the often differing needs and requirements of the purchaser of new medical technology and the end-user. This implies that medical ...
Assessment of Team Based Innovation in a Product Service System Development Process
Bergström,Mattias; Parida,Vinit ; Johansson,Christian // 2011
Innovation is often measured based on how the product performs on the market. This makes it difficult to measure the performance of a team since the time to develop a product may take several years. ...
ASSOCIATIVE THINKING AS A DESIGN STRATEGY AND ITS RELATION TO CREATIVITY
Casakin, Hernan // 2011
Associative thinking can help designers to reflect over a problem situation by focusing on unrelated perspectives. During this process, a mapping of high order relations can be established between a ...
AUTOMATED USER BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS
Choi, Yeeun; Jang, Misun; Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Seongil // 2011
This study’s aim is to improve existing methodology for users’ evaluation that performs tasks in environment observation. We examine a new user's monitoring system and analyze for monitoring ...
AUTONOMOUS VISUALIZATION AGENTS TO ENHANCE THE ANALYSIS OF VIRTUAL PROTOTYPES
Radkowski, Rafael; Gausemeier, Jürgen // 2011
A virtual prototype specifies the shape and the behavior of a product under development. However, it is a computer-internal representation of this product and suitable visualization techniques are ...
BALANCING INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL PRODUCT VARIETY IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Graessler, Iris // 2011
Applicability of “Mass Customization” to mechatronic systems is proven by various product examples in automobile industry. For example, chassis performance is adjusted to the driver’s specific wishes ...
BAYESIAN PROJECT MONITORING
Matthews, Peter C; Philip, Alex D M // 2011
This paper studies how subtle signals that can be observed from the execution order of a project with several tasks can be used to diagnose potential problems that will hinder the project. ...
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