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Connected Creativity – A Human Centered Community Platform for Innovation Impulses
Albers, A.; Maul, L.; Bursac, N.; Heismann, R. // 2015
In this paper a concept for a community platform is introduced focusing on human factors of motivation and barriers in the context of innovation. Building on the state of the art, a three year case ...
CONSTANT DRIPPING WEARS AWAY THE STONE: LINKING DESIGN THINKING AND EFFECTUAL ACTION IN DESIGNING NEW VENTURES
Niedworok, Anja; Schloegl, Stephan; Mirski, Peter J.; Greger, Rudolf; Ambrosch, Marcus // 2015
In this paper we explore how to intertwine designers work and problem solving approaches with effectuation. At a first glance, establishing effectuation as the overlap between an entrepreneurial ...
COST PROGNOSIS OF MODULAR PRODUCT STRUCTURE CONCEPTS
Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter // 2015
Modular product structures are often used by companies dealing with a high variety in their product families to cope with that challenge. Due to the gradual properties of modularity, more than one ...
CRISIS SITUATIONS IN ENGINEERING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT - A METHOD TO IDENTIFY CRISIS
Muenzberg, Christopher; Venkataraman, Srinivasan; Hertrich, Nicolas; Fruehling, Carl; Lindemann, Udo // 2015
An observational case study and an observation method are presented in this paper. The goal of the observation method is to identify, observe, document and analyse crisis situations in engineering ...
DEGREES OF CUSTOMIZATION AND SALES SUPPORT SYSTEMS - ENABLERS TO SUSTAINIBILITY IN MASS CUSTOMIZATION
Gembarski, Paul Christoph; Lachmayer, Roland // 2015
For more than 20 years, mass customization proofed as valuable business strategy to manufacture goods tailored to a customer’s needs with nearly mass production efficiency. After pointing out key ...
DEPENDENCY IDENTIFICATION FOR ENGINEERING CHANGE MANAGEMENT (ECM): AN EXAMPLE OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD)-BASED APPROACH
Masmoudi, Mahmoud; Leclaire, Patrice; Zolghadri, Marc; Haddar, Mohamed // 2015
Engineering change management is a research field in which the goal is to deal with modifications of products and systems. Methods and tools are set up to predict more efficiently the propagation of ...
Design a Management Systemfor P&G LWC (Members only )
Cheng, Yongliang // 2015
The University of Cincinnati (UC) and Procter and Gamble (P&G) founded Live Well Collaborative (LWC) in 2007 as a non-profit organization located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Currently, there is no useful ...
DESIGN FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS: USEFULNESS OF RE-USE?
Walsh, Edwin Peter; Daems, Walter; Steckel, Jan; Peremans, Herbert; Baelus, Christiaan // 2015
Due to an increased need for Assistive Technology (AT) applications, governmental interest into reducing the total cost of providing AT applications is growing. A commonly reported high rate of AT ...
DESIGN FOR RETROFITTING
Coenen, Jenny; Ruiz, Valentina; Fernandez Hernando, Jose Manuel; Frouws, Koos // 2015
This paper explorers the possibilities to design a ship for a future 'sea change' like a major retrofit of the engine room. In order to assess the potential future beneficial impact of such design ...
DESIGN INNOVATION FOR SOCIETAL AND BUSINESS CHANGE
Thurgood, Clementine; Dorst, Kees; Bucolo, Sam; van der Bijl-Brouwer, Mieke; Vermaas, Pieter // 2015
We present two approaches for addressing complex societal and business problems: frame creation and design led innovation. Both methods combine a broad systems approach to problem solving together ...
Design Management
Ledsome, Colin // 2015
There are many, sometimes conflicting definitions of both “design” and “management”. Each is an interplay between physical action in the real world and the mental picture the designer/manager has of ...
DESIGN PROCESS AND CONSCIOUS PROBLEM SOLVING THROUGH COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN EDUCATION
Pavel, Nenad; Omlid, Mikael // 2015
nt, it is necessary for product design (PD) students to focus on inquiry-based learning in order to adapt to changes instead of simply learning form-giving and model-making skills. This paper seeks ...
DESIGN QUESTIONS FOR LIFE: CONNECTING ENGINEERING DESIGN, APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY, AND OTHER QUESTION-BASED MODELS
Lilja, Johan; Hansen, David; Richardsson, Daniel // 2015
The “Design for Life” philosophy is an invitation to create new products, services, processes, and experiences that enhance human life. Research further suggests that a good life is qualitatively ...
DESIGN-FOR-MANUFACTURE OF SHEET-BULK METAL FORMED PARTS
Breitsprecher, Thilo; Sauer, Christopher; Sperber, Christian; Wartzack, Sandro // 2015
Sheet-bulk metal forming (SBMF) is an emerging and sustainable manufacturing technology that offers potential both for shortening process chains and for designing new geometry features that enable ...
DESIGNING PSI: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PSI FRAMEWORK
Reich, Yoram; Subrahmanian, Eswaran // 2015
The PSI spaces are a framework for studying designing as practiced in the real world: framing and solving technical, social or organizational goals embedded in the existing socio-economic and ...
DEVELOPING A COMPUTATIONAL FRAMEWORK TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF USE OF ANALOGY IN DESIGN ON TEAM COHESION AND TEAM COLLABORATION
Singh, Vishal; Casakin, Hernan // 2015
This paper presents a framework for a computational model about analogizing during team interactions when dealing with design problems. The framework is based on prior empirical research about the ...
DIGITAL REPOSITORY FOR DESIGN KNOWLEDGE REUSE
Firdaus, Mochammad; Wang, Hongwei; Qin, Hao; Liu, Yusheng // 2015
Many companies in the engineering sector are currently facing the challenge of producing accurate documentation which can be reused during design activities in order to support the life cycle of ...
DoD Predictive Program Management (Members only )
Ruzzo, A. // 2015
This paper describes and demonstrates a proof of concept for a Predictive Program Management artifact for large Department of Defense (DoD) platform acquisition programs of record. The artifact’s ...
DSM Foundations and Applications, and an Update on the Explainer (Members only )
Steward, D. V. // 2015
DSM can be used as an autonomous organization. It can also be used to manage risks. Frustrated and irrational people cannot solve problems, and when people cannot solve the problems that adversely ...
ECO-EVALUATION OF TECHNICAL SYSTEMS IN THE CONCEPTUAL PHASE
Midzic, Ida; Storga, Mario; Marjanovic, Dorian // 2015
In conceptual design phase, description of the final product solution is abstract, and there is the lack of information on product s environmental performance throughout its life cycle. Quantitative ...
ECODESIGN MATURITY MODEL AS A FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION TOWARDS ISO 14.001:2015 CERTIFICATION
Pigosso, Daniela C. A.; McAloone, Tim C. // 2015
Currently, the certification standard for Environmental Management Systems (EMS) ISO 14.001:2011 is under a major revision process, regarding its structure and requirements. The current draft entails ...
ENABLING FRONT END OF INNOVATION IN A MATURE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
Broennum, Louise; Clausen, Christian // 2015
Many mature development organizations finds it difficult to handle radical and incremental innovation within the same organizational structures. We examine how organizational structures, management, ...
ENHANCING COMUNICATION SKILLS THROUGH STUDENT AND ENTERPRISE INTERACTION
Stoltenberg, Einar // 2015
Collaboration between a university and an industry is a common way to create “realistic” student
projects that provide opportunities for gaining useful knowledge of “real-world problems,” ...
ENVISIONING PRODUCTS TO SUPPORT THE AGILE MANAGEMENT OF INNOVATIVE DESIGN
Carvalho, Fábio Henrique Trovon de; Costa, Janaína Hornos Mascarenhas da; Amaral, Daniel Capaldo // 2015
Create a Product Vision is a challenge recognized for innovative design and it is a mandatory practice in the agile project management approach. The Product Vision Management Method (PVMM) was ...
Boolean Searches
The following examples demonstrate some search strings that use boolean operators:
- design community
Find rows that contain at least one of the two words. - +design +community
Find rows that contain both words. - +design community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but rank rows higher if they also contain “community”. - +design -community
Find rows that contain the word “design” but not “community”. - +design ~community
Find rows that contain the word “design”, but if the row also contains the word “community”, rate it lower than if row does not. - +design +(>community <decisions)
Find rows that contain the words “design” and “community”, or “design” and “decisions” (in any order), but rank “design community” higher than “design decisions” - design*
Find rows that contain words such as “design”, “designs”, “designing”, or “designer”. - "some words"
Find rows that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, rows that contain “some words of wisdom” but not “some noise words”). Note that the " characters that enclose the phrase are operator characters that delimit the phrase. They are not the quotation marks that enclose the search string itself.