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INDUSTRY-LED CORPORATE START-UP ACCELERATOR DESIGN: LESSONS LEARNED IN A MARITIME PORT COMPLEX
Garcia-Herrera, Cristobal; Perkmann, Markus; Childs, Peter R. N. // 2018
Given the increasing disruption in every industry, firms can design new interfaces to further their strategic exploration efforts in order to remain competitive. Based on an inductive multi-case ...
INFORMATION FEEDBACK IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: ANALYSING PRACTICAL CASES
Wellsandt, Stefan; Thoben, Klaus-Dieter; Klein, Patrick // 2018
Information feedback is an important driver of iteration in development projects. Feedback emerges for various reasons and from different information sources and channels. This paper seeks to support ...
INNOVATION BY IMITATION IN DESIGN EDUCATION
Buthayna Hasan Eilouti // 2018
Within a cross-disciplinary framework of design knowledge management, an exploratory approach to architectural designing is proposed. In this approach, Biomimetics is explored for its potentials as a ...
INTEGRATING SUSTAINABILITY IN PRODUCT REQUIREMENTS
Watz, Matilda; Hallstedt, Sophie I. // 2018
Trade-offs between sustainability criteria and engineering design variables can lead to sub-optimisations and costly short-term priorities. This study explores how sustainability requirements can be ...
INTEGRATING THE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FUNCTIONAL INTERDEPENDENCIES INTO A PARAMETER MANAGEMENT APPROACH
Toepfer, Ferdinand; Naumann, Thomas; Anderer, Janina; Vajna, Sándor // 2018
Based on an approach which uses the description of functional interdependencies to resolve multi-criterial goal conflicts this paper addresses the challenge of formalizing the complex knowledge about ...
INVENTIVE PRODUCT DESIGN FOCUSING ON PHYSICAL CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS CAUSING TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN FUNCTIONS
Oizumi, Kazuya; Aoyama, Kazuhiro // 2018
Development of fascinating products has always been aspired by product designers. Trade-offs are one important aspects to consider improving a product functionality. When significant trade-off is ...
KNOWLEDGE-BASED MANUFACTURING: A PROPOSAL TO MANAGE MANUFACTURING RULES
Marra, Manuela; Pascarelli, Claudio; Lazoi, Mariangela; Corallo, Angelo; Micchetti, Francesco // 2018
In manufacturing companies, technologists use CAD/CAM tools for NC programming. Feature based approaches enable to faster programming, but require advanced competences and a standardization too ...
LEANIFICATION OF THE ENGINEERING PROCESS FOR CUSTOMIZED ROAD SAFETY PRODUCTS
Ulonska, Sören; Welo, Torgeir; Rølvåg, Terje // 2018
Increasing need for customization and documentation but with deficits in a systematic product configuration strategy can result in repeated problem-solving and non-value added engineering. This is ...
LESSONS LEARNT IN DESIGNING TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE FOLLOWING A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH
Wallisch, Anne; Maccioni, Lorenzo; Trautmann, Laura; Ostermeyer, Emeric; Borgianni, Yuri; Borg, Jonathan C. // 2018
Aging societies have an extended need for transportation solutions that enhance elderly’s independence. However, the solutions needed are as manifold as the elderly's lifestyles are. This study uses ...
MAKING PARTNERSHIPS WORK: INTEGRATIVE OPEN SYSTEM DESIGN FOR A NEW GENERATION OF COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE SCHEMES
Witz, Petr; Oehmen, Josef // 2018
With the financial crisis having casted doubt on many standard business models a search for adaptations began. Infrastructure investments around the world have produced rather mixed results. Previous ...
Managing Systems of Objectives in the agile Development of Mechatronic Systems by ASD - Agile Systems Design
Albers, Albert; Heimicke, Jonas; Hirschter, Tobias; Richter, Thilo; Reiß, Nicolas; Maier, Alexander; Bursac, Nikola // 2018
In the development of mechatronic systems and the associated product services and business models, the system of objectives contains all relevant objectives of various stakeholders, as well as ...
MATURITY MODEL-BASED PLANNING OF CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS IN THE MACHINERY AND PLANT ENGINEERING INDUSTRY
Westermann, Thorsten; Dumitrescu, Roman // 2018
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are networked, intelligent technical systems that interact with the physical and digital world alike. Companies now increasingly face the challenge of rapidly and ...
MODEL-BASED CONSISTENCY FOR DESIGN FOR VARIETY AND MODULARIZATION
Hanna, Michael; Schwede, Lea-Nadine; Krause, Dieter // 2018
Methods for developing modular product families contain a lot of information and data that are not always consistent. Consistent data modeling enables simple changes across all affected tools while ...
Model-based design guidelines for better knowledge transfer into industrial applications
Butenko, Viktoriia; Gladysz, Bartosz; Marius, Maurath; Albers, Albert // 2018
If only we knew what we know""-this statement is well known and still stands for the situation of manufacturing companies today. The correct use of engineering knowledge in product design provides ...
MODELLING OF DIGITAL EXTENDED ENTERPRISE
Pulkkinen, Antti J. (1); Vainio, Ville V. (1); Leino, Simo-Pekka (2); Anttila, Juha-Pekka (2) // 2018
The concept of Digital Extended Enterprise is presented as a form of highly competitive manufacturing network. The maturity model of digital extended enterprise is defined as a method for the ...
ON KNOWLEDGE MATURITY AND BIASED NATURE OF STAGED DECISION MAKING IN A HIGH CONSEQUENCE INDUSTRY
Svensson, Martin; Bertoni, Alessandro; Lanander, Maximillian // 2018
This paper explores and problematizes decision-making in a high-consequence industry which is characterized by the stage-gate process. We showcase that decision-makers do not differentiate between ...
Perceived long term value of industry project-based design courses: Alumni reflections from two decades of the Product Development Project
Mikkonen, Maria; Tuulos, Tiina; Björklund, Tua // 2018
As the landscape of higher education is changing with increased competition, being able to clearly articulate learning outcomes and their significance to students is becoming more and more important ...
PERCEIVED QUALITY OF THE SPLIT-LINE DESIGN AND QUALITY
Striegel, Serena Simone; Zielinski, Daniel // 2018
Increasing customer expectations towards high product quality and shorter product development cycles require new and standardized methods to asses a product’s quality on an objective level. The ...
PLAYING WITH DIVERSITY AND CONFORMITY IN DESIGN-ORIENTATED PROJECT MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
BERNARDES, MAURICIO MOREIRA E SILVA; DE OLIVEIRA, GEISA GAIGER; FRAGA, PAULA GÖRGEN RADICI // 2018
Teaching in higher education has been facing a series of challenges, both in terms of the nature of the demands and dynamics of the market, and also with respect to the continuous expansion and ...
PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE TRANSITION IN AN EVOLVING MULTI-BRAND ORGANISATION
Williamsson, David; Sellgren, Ulf; Söderberg, Anders // 2018
A modular architecture is a strategic means to deliver external variety and internal commonality. A methodology for product modularization that integrates complexity and strategies is proposed and ...
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CHALLENGES FOR SPACE SUB-SYSTEM MANUFACTURERS
Öhrwall Rönnbäck, Anna B.; Isaksson, Ola // 2018
Space industry undergoes a transformation where new business interests affect manufacturers of space subsystems and equipment. This paper investigates consequences on development and design ...
PRODUCT VARIETY AND VARIETY IN PRODUCTION
Landahl, Jonas; Johannesson, Hans // 2018
Variety traditionally denotes products that serve a wide range of customer needs. However, variety in production exists too. Like products, production processes and production resources may also ...
PRODUCTIVE CHAINS OF PEACE
Rodríguez, Judith Amparo // 2018
This project was developed by ASOMENORES, a social foundation which aims the resocialisation of criminal Juvenile Offenders’ Law in Bolivar Department in Colombia, in association with the Industrial ...
PUTTING THEORY TO PRACTICE: REFLECTIONS ON THE INTEGRATION OF PRODUCT DESIGN ASPECTS IN AAL PROJECTS
Dittenberger, Sandra // 2018
This paper discusses the question of the awareness and representation of product design aspects in the user-centred design's ISO process model applied in research projects in the realm of the Active ...