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About the Use of TRIZ for Product-Service Development
Rovida, Edoardo; Bertoni, Marco; Carulli, Marina // 2009
The aim of this paper is to understand how the Theory of Inventor's Problem Solving (TRIZ) may be applied in the development of product-service combinations. The authors have analyzed TRIZ ...
Achieving Pareto Optimality in a Decentralized Design Environment
Honda, Tomonori; Ciucci, Francesco; Yang, Maria C. // 2009
As engineering systems grow in complexity, the teams that design them require increasingly disparate expertise and must operate in a more distributed fashion. At the same time, subsystem design teams ...
Action research into the use of parametric associative CAD systems in an industrial context
Salehi, Vahid; McMahon, Chris // 2009
This paper reports the first stages from a research programme into the application of parametric associative CAD systems adopting the Design Research Methodology (DRM) according to Blessing. The ...
Active Learning Project Sequence: Capstone Experience for Multi- Disciplinary System Design and Management Education
Ishii, Kosuke; de Weck, Olivier; Haruyama, Shinichiro; Maeno, Takashi; Kim, Sun; Fowler, Whit // 2009
Whereas team project-based learning of engineering design has attracted wide acceptance, it is still rare to see a curriculum that addresses high level societal needs involving diverse students with ...
Adapting Eco-Innovation Tools to the Needs of the Company: A Case Study
O’Hare, Jamie; Dekoninck, Elies; Turnbull, Aidan; McMahon, Chris // 2009
In this paper we consider the problem of the lack of industry uptake of eco-design and eco-innovation tools. We take a change management perspective on this problem and focus on eco-innovation tool ...
Aesthetic emotions and the evaluation of architectural design styles
Hernan, Pablo Casakin; Mastandrea, Stefano // 2009
The research studied aesthetic emotions and their relationship to architectural design styles. The goal was to see how people assess two contrasting design styles, namely Renaissance and Contemporary ...
Aesthetic-Aerodynamic Design Optimization of a Car Grille Profile While Preserving Brand Identity
Sareh, Pooya; Rowson, Jennifer // 2009
The purpose of this study is to investigate how to combine the aesthetic quality with the engineering functionality in a design project while preserving the brand identity. It is aimed to develop a ...
Affordance Feature Reasoning: A Case Study for Human-Product Interaction
Kim, Yong Se; Lim, Jin Seung; Park, Jin A // 2009
Affordances of a product are messages which could be perceived by a human user so that the product function can work by a user's activities naturally induced with the help of such messages. ...
Agile Methods for Design to Customer
Feldhusen, Jörg; Löwer, Manuel; Bungert, Frederik // 2009
Not only products but also product development get more and more complex. International teams at different locations spread over the globe have to elaborate adequate solutions in shorter project ...
Algorithm-based Transformation of Customer Requirements into Product Properties
Chahadi,Youssef; Wäldele,Martin; Birkhofer,Herbert // 2009
The procedure described here represents the basis for the development of pro le-like structures by the Collaborative Research Center 666 “Integral sheet metal design with higher order bifurcations”. ...
An Agent Based Approach to Modeling Design Teams
Crowder, Richard Michael; Hughes, Helen; Sim, Yee Wai; Robinson, Mark // 2009
It is well recognized that an effective design process is contingent on the joint optimization of both the social and technical aspects of such an activity. Thus interactions between individual ...
An Approach for Consideration Competences of Elderly People in the Development of Technical Systems
Paetzold, Kristin; Stöber, Christina // 2009
Elderly people are restricted in their efficiency due to the aging process. Technical systems provide a considerable capability to support elderly in their domestic surrounding field. Important is, ...
An Approach to Compare Product Development Methods
Vajna, Sandor; Kittel, Konstantin // 2009
The manifold activities of product development are the substantial activities within a company, as these, due to their innovation character, are the foundations of the company's success. Many ...
An Approach to Identify Optimal Phases of NPD Processes to Integrate Stakeholders
Kirschner,Rafael; Kain,Andreas; Lindemann,Udo; Gunkel,Jennifer; Klendauer,Ruth; Schneider,Michael; Wastian,Monika // 2009
Not only users of technical products but also other stakeholders such as purchasers, technicians etc. have the knowledge and experience to support new product development processes and to increase ...
An Artificially Intelligent Recommender for Enhancing User’s Browsing Experience
Vaishnav,Vikas; Yammiyavar,Pradeep // 2009
This paper is a depiction of how user experience, while interacting with a product can be improved by identifying the user's choices based on their behaviors and reactions while interacting with ...
An Automatic Identification of Negation in Design Documents
Kim,Sanghee; Wallace,Ken // 2009
Designers use negation to describe: (1) design problems; (2) contradictory ndings; and (3) unlikely root causes. An example negation is no signs of engine failures due to fuel exhaustion. Designers ...
An Empirical Model of the Process of Synthesis of Multiple State Mechanical Devices
Todeti, Somasekhara Rao; Chakrabarti, Amaresh // 2009
Automated synthesis of mechanical designs is an important step towards the development of an intelligent CAD system. Research into methods for supporting conceptual design using automated synthesis ...
An Empirical Study of Energy Efficiency of Clothes Dryers
Lee, Jay; Hoeller, Norbert; Rogers, Damian; Musnier, Samuel; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
The domestic clothes dryer is one of the most energy-consumptive appliances in the residential sector, but there has been relatively little work to study its environmental aspects and improve upon ...
An Exploration of the Human Element in Collaboration
Hunter, Matthew; Salustri, Filippo Arnaldo // 2009
In this paper, the authors propose that there is an inconsistency in the understanding of collaboration and of the collaborator because of a contradiction between attitudinal and behavioural ...
An Explorer Style Interface for Design Knowledge Indexing Based on Taxonomies
Pavkovic, Neven; Marjanovic, Dorian; Hoic, Matija; Rohde, Danijel // 2009
The designers often find existing knowledge management systems being too complicated and/or too obtrusive to be used in their everyday practice. This paper explores the proposition that a simple and ...
An Integrated Approach to Manage New Product Development Processes In The Space Industry
Vittone, Riccardo; Montagna, Francesca // 2009
The New Product Development (NPD) process is characterized by numerous elements of complexity and firms face varied challenges in managing it. Because of the close link with innovative processes and ...
An Integrated Case Study of Material Selection, Testing and Optimization
Leary, Martin John; Mazur, Maciej; Lumley, Roger; Subic, Aleksandar // 2009
An opportunity for design improvement through material substitution was identified by experimental assessment of an existing linear actuator. Material selection procedures were used to screen a broad ...
An Integrated Environment for Shape Modeling and Fluid-dynamic Analysis
Bordegoni,Monica; Caruso,Francesco; Ferrise,Francesco; Ambrogio,Marco // 2009
In order to improve the performances of the overall design process of products, it would be beneficial the availability of computer-aided ools supporting conceptual design and simulation activities ...
An Integrated Product, Process and Rationale Model for the Provision of Through-Life Information in Product Service Systems
McKay, Alison; Kundu, Saikat; de Pennington, Alan; Dawson, Peter G. // 2009
Many organisations are moving from the supply of products to the delivery of product-service systems. As a result, the potential value of product-related information created through the whole ...
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