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Designing and implementing a method to build innovation capability in product development teams
Ritzén, Sofia; Nilsson, Susanne // 2013
This paper presents a framework and process (MINT) to support product development teams that have an ambition to improve their capability to manage both radical and incremental innovation. The ...
Development of an engineering change management capability framework for enterprise transformation
Storbjerg, Simon Haahr; Sommer, Anita Friis; Brunø, Thomas Ditlev; Thyssen, Jesper // 2013
With the current financial crisis focus of product development in industry has centred on efficient variant development and increasing the utilisation of existing products and platforms. Together ...
Discovering contextual tags from product review using semantic relatedness
Lim, Soon Chong Johnson; Liu, Ying // 2013
Nowadays, online product reviews has enabled product designers to better understand product related issues from the users' perspective. In the design community, there are a number of studies that ...
EcoM2 web portal: Collecting empirical data and supporting companies' ecodesign implementation and management
Pigosso, Daniela; McAloone, Tim C.; Rozenfeld, Henrique // 2013
Despite the recognition of the potential benefits of ecodesign, a promising approach to integrate environmental concerns into the product development process, its application has failed to reach ...
Elaboration and assessment of a set of criteria for the evaluation of product ideas
Messerle, Mathias; Binz, Hansgeorg; Roth, Daniel // 2013
It is important for companies to identify the most promising product ideas very early in the product development process in order to use the available resources for the ârightâ projects. ...
Establishing key elements for handling in-service information and knowledge
Carey, Emily; Culley, Steve; Weber, Frithjof // 2013
In-Service support is an increasingly important part of product lifecycles in particular for complex high value, low number products such as in the Aerospace sector. Although there is a significant ...
Evaluating the failures criticality in collaborative design with suppliers
Personnier, Hélène; Le Dain, Marie-Anne; Calvi, Richard // 2013
Innovation helps companies to increase their competitive position. Suppliers are an important source of innovation. Thus, successful collaborations with suppliers in New Product Development (NPD) can ...
Evolving an innovative design education environment: the Formula DIT story
McHale, Donal; McGrath, Mark; Woods, Gerry; Reddington, Bill; McEvoy, Derek // 2013
This paper describes the evolution of a Design Education Learning Environment within the School of Manufacturing & Design Engineering at the Dublin Institute of Technology. The environment has ...
Exploring featherweight industry PLM solutions for academic use
Barrie, Jeff; Owen, Geraint // 2013
There is no doubt that PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions are improving data sharing and decision making during product development in industry and beyond. CAD (Computer Aided Design) and ...
Facilitating problem-based learning in teams with Scrum
Ovesen, Nis // 2013
This paper discusses what design students gain from implementing project management practices from the Scrum framework within a project-organised and problem-based learning environment. Experiments ...
Framework for the development of maturity based self-assessments for process improvement
Kühn, Arno; Bensiek, Tobias; Gausemeier, Jürgen // 2013
Increasing productivity and competitiveness are still major challenges for companies. One approach for performance improvement are maturity models. Their main principle is an objective performance ...
From product development to market introduction: A co-citation analysis in the field of ramp-up
Elstner, Steffen; Krause, Dieter // 2013
Shorter product life cycles and increasing market competition have driven firms to cut their development times and accelerate the introduction of new products into the market. Deviations from the ...
Idea relevancy assessment in preparation of product development
Stevanovic, Milan; Marjanovic, Dorian; Storga, Mario // 2013
In order to maximize the prospects it is necessary to thoroughly evaluate a number of ideas proposed and estimate their potential for new product development. Ideas description, evaluation and ...
Identifying uncertainties within structural complexity management
Kasperek, Daniel; Kohn, Andreas; Maurer, Maik // 2013
Structural complexity management (StCM) is an established methodology to manage complexity within engineering design. Complexity management is necessary if complexity for example due to shorter ...
Improving eco-design projects through better understanding of the company characteristics and business context
Buckingham, Molly; Dekoninck, Elies; McMahon, Chris // 2013
This paper examines the role of the supported pilot project in introducing and embedding eco-design practices. This is achieved through the documentation of a pilot project that failed to achieve a ...
Improving Organizational Design and Diagnosis by Supporting Viable System Model Applications with Structural Complexity Management
Elezi, F.; Resch, D.; Tommelein, I.D.; Lindemann, U. // 2013
This paper explores the applicability of Structural Complexity Management (StCM) on organizational design and diagnosis. As basic structural model for efficient management of organizations the Viable ...
Industry specific PSS: A study of opportunities and barriers for maritime suppliers
Andersen, Jakob Axel Bejbro; McAloone, Tim C.; Garcia i Mateu, Adrià // 2013
Product/service-System (PSS) business models are finding applications with suppliers and manufacturers across industries, but the models have yet to establish a strong foothold in the maritime ...
Information exchange along the product development process using the example of bimetallic corrosion
Eigner, Martin; Ernst, Joscha; Roubanov, Daniil; Sindermann, Sebastian; Eickhoff, Thomas // 2013
The reduction of the overall manufacturing costs and time-to-market is one of the biggest strategic goals for many companies. Both factors (time and costs) are incurred during the production but ...
Innovation diffusion categories and innovation-related needs
Singh, Vishal // 2013
This paper proposes a typology of innovation-related needs to explain the innovation diffusion patterns observed in the empirical studies conducted in Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) ...
Innovation roadmapping: Building a theoretical framework from multiple cases of industrial firms
Simonse, Lianne W.L.; Buijs, Jan A.; Hultink, Erik-Jan // 2013
This paper investigates the phenomenon of innovation roadmapping from the dimensions of activity and performance. We employed a multiple case analysis on 12 cases of industrial firms to identify the ...
Integrated projects: Positioning design as the underlying ingredient towards integrating subject areas within an undergraduate programme - a case study
Sivaloganathan, Sangarapillai; Shahin, Tamer // 2013
This paper provides a case study on how design as a process can be used as an underlying foundation to link and integrate several subject areas. The paper discusses the process in which learning ...
Interpreting knowledge maps using structural criteria
Schmidt, Danilo Marcello; Schenkl, Sebastian Alexander; Wickel, Martina Carolina; Braun, Michael; Maurer, Maik // 2013
Companies have to develop their knowledge to provide more complex products to fulfill changing market‘s requirements. We have chosen a Multiple-Domain-Matrix (MDM)-based knowledge mapping approach to ...
Investigation of internal and external design teams during the product development process in footwear companies.
Capra, Andréa; Bernardes, Maurício Moreira e Silva // 2013
This paper aims to analyze the management of internal and external design teams during the product development process in two footwear companies of Paranhana Valley in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. A ...
Issues in organisation and management of multidisciplinary group design projects
Keating, Ken; Brougham, Claire; Gavin, Graham; Reilly, Ger // 2013
In education project teams that reflect organisational concepts considered normal in industrial design teams have a range of benefits for learning and graduate employability. They present a range of ...
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.