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THE ECO-VALUE ANALYSIS – AN APPROACH TO ASSIGNING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND COSTS TO CUSTOMERS’ DEMANDS

Oberender, C.; Birkhofer, H. // 2004
Design for environment faces a conflict: On the one hand, products must be environmentally friendly; on the other, products must conform with the market. The customer does not buy components; s/he ...

THE ECODESIGN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM - SUPPORTING ECODESIGN EDUCATION AS WELL AS ECODESIGN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Dewulf, W.; Duflou, J. // 2004
The Ecodesign Knowledge System, presented in this paper, makes use of four strategies to support the efficient retrieval of information: a classification in a number of knowledge types, a contextual ...

THE FAMILIARITY WITH AND THE USE OF DISASSEMBLY-SUPPORTING CONNECTIONS AND FASTENERS IN GERMANY’S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY – A SURVEY

Wünsche, T.; Blessing, L. // 2004
The aim of this study was to find out to what degree disassembly-supporting connections are known and used in practice; how knowledge of the existence of such connections affects their use. It could ...

THE GAP BETWEEN LEARNING AND APPLYING DESIGN METHODS

Jänsch, J.F.P.; Birkhofer, H. // 2004
Teaching design methods with the result of producing competent designers is a complex challenge. It is important to impart the aims of a design method, which consist of the effects of the design ...

THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL ASPECTS ON THE DESIGN PROCESS

Felgen, L.; Grieb, J.; Lindemann, U.; Pulm, U.; Chakrabati, A.; Vijaykumar, G. // 2004
Due to increasing globalisation, the development of products is no longer restricted to one place, it is more and more characterised by distributed design teams, who work in different places, time ...

THE LURE OF THE MEASURABLE IN DESIGN RESEARCH

Eckert, C.; Clarkson, P.J.; Stacey, M.K. // 2004
Beginning design research projects by defining success criteria, judged by numerical measurements, is a very attractive idea. But defining a priori success criteria is problematic, as is using ...

THE PRINCIPLE OF DIRECTED RADICALITY: TOWARDS A LOGIC OF RADICAL INNOVATION

Eloranta, K.T. // 2004
Intelligent focusing is the crux of effective and efficient problem solving in any domain. Knowlede-level studies of problem solving have supported this view without any reservations. In fact, it is ...

THE ROLE OF DESIGN IN UNIVERSITY INDUCED INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION

Hein, L. // 2004
Performance evaluation is being imposed on universities worldwide, and metrics for education and research are being developed and implemented. At the same time, many universities add a new dimension ...

THE ROLE OF INNOVATION, CREATIVITY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN DESIGN

VACEK, J.; SKALICKÝ, J.; SLECHTOVA, Y. // 2004

THE STRATEGY - DESIGN ALIGNMENT: WHICH GUIDELINES TO ENSURE COHERENCE BETWEEN STRATEGIC THINKING AND DESIGN PROCESS

Mira-Bonnardel, S. // 2004
The intention of this paper is to understand how strategic objectives of a company really interact with operational objectives of the company’s design process. The question is: how to guide design in ...

THE TERM PLATFORM IN THE CONTEXT OF A PRODUCT DEVELOPING COMPANY

Kristjansson, A. H.; Jensen, T.; Hildre, H. P. // 2004
In the paper, we demonstrate that 1) there exist a number of different types of platforms, 2) within the same type of platform, there often exist ambiguous nuances, and 3) the term platform has an ...

THE WAY TO DO ECODESIGN IN COMPANIES - INSTALLING A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PROCESS

Wimmer, W.; Bey, N. // 2004
A multinational company producing office furniture requested an appropriate tool to integrate "environment" into their product development. This lead to the company adaptation of the ...

THERE IS NOTHING AS PRACTICAL AS A GOOD THEORY – AN ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH THE GAP BETWEEN DESIGN RESEARCH AND DESIGN PRACTICE

Birkhofer, H. // 2004
The paper addresses the gap between the expectations of designers working in a competitive industrial environment and the outcome of design research focusing on specific, scientifically interesting ...

TIKIWIKI: A TOOL TO SUPPORT ENGINEERING DESIGN STUDENTS IN CONCEPT GENERATION

Wodehouse, A.; Grierson, H.; Ion, W.; Juster, N.; Lynn, A.; Stone, A. // 2004

TIN TIN, TOPOGRAPHICAL MAPS AND WHISKEY: THE 'CULTURAL CAPITAL' OF DESIGN STUDENTS

Strickfaden, M. // 2004
Each individual inherently gathers and retains cultural information throughout their lives. This can be utilized as inspiration during the design process and even becomes embedded in designed ...

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