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Spatial design supporting the management of radical improvements within the manufacturing industry
Schaeffer Andersson, Jennie; Jackson, Mats // 2013
It is important for the manufacturing industry to become more innovative. Doing what we always have done is not enough. External pressure and the required speed of change, requires industry to ...
Stage-gate model in action: Regulating creativity and business imperatives in creative industries
Ng, Ricky, Yuk-kwan; Yeung, Sherman, Sheung-man // 2013
Inspiration and intuition seem to be the two essential components for designers to generate creativity. It is not surprising that designers think differently and very often possess with distinctive ...
Strategy, business models or tactics – What is product service systems (PSS) literature talking about?
Reim, Wiebke; Parida, Vinit; Örtqvist, Daniel // 2013
Product- Service Systems (PSS) and business model share the emphasis on value creation. Still PSS literature uses the term business models vaguely without being clearly understood. Therefore, the ...
Suitable methods for process modeling and process optimization
Schabacker, Michael; Szélig, Nikoletta; Vajna, Sándor // 2013
The current situation in product development is characterized by increasingly dynamic and complex tasks. The development of a product is not a linear process, continuously guided by well-defined ...
Supporting multiple engineering viewpoints in computer-aided design using ontology-based annotations.
Li, Chun Lei; McMahon, Chris; Newnes, Linda // 2013
This paper describes an approach to supporting, in computer-aided design (CAD), the multiple evaluations that occur when engineers bring their expertise to bear, especially in the later phases of the ...
Supporting teamwork in contract furniture design
Mengoni, Maura; Peruzzini, Margherita; Raffaeli, Roberto // 2013
Contract furniture design is oriented to develop customized products for the creation of a finished commodity for hospitality, offices, retails, restaurants, stores. It is assuming a growing ...
Supporting the modification process of products through a change management tool
Malatesta, Marco; Raffaeli, Roberto; Mengoni, Maura; Germani, Michele // 2013
Updating products requires design activities, virtual and physical prototyping of new solutions, test and validation steps. If problems are detected at any of these stages, they cause iterations, ...
Testing the value of TRIZ and its derivatives for knowledge transfer in problem solving attempts by multidisciplinary teams
Schöfer, Malte; Maranzana, Nicolas; Aoussat, Ameziane; Bersano, Giacomo // 2013
The design process of ever more complex products requires an increasing amount of knowledge originating in ever more distant domains of expertise. However, in order to make the knowledge transfer ...
The communication patterns of engineers within an SME in 2012
Gopsill, James Anthony; McAlpine, Hamish Charles; Hicks, Ben James // 2013
The communication patterns of engineers has been well researched over the past decades. However, due to the rise of new communication technologies and their speed of inception within society, it can ...
The influence of technical expertise on managerial activities throughout the innovation process
Rekonen, Satu M.; Björklund, Tua A.; Liikkanen, Lassi A. // 2013
This paper investigates the management activities of the project managers of six new product development projects based on a longitudinal, interview-based study. The study compared how the managerial ...
The language of collaborative engineering projects
Hicks, Ben // 2013
The challenges of managing large, long-life, distributed engineering projects are discussed and the need to improve monitoring and control in order to reduce over-runs, improve productivity, better ...
The value of design information in collaborative design networks
Mahlamäki, Katrine // 2013
Collaborative design requires efficient communication, but the value of design information for the collaboration partners is difficult to predict. The dimensions of design information value and ...
Towards a new perspective of managing ideas in front-end innovation as actor networks
Vagn, Anna Rose; Clausen, Christian; Gish, Liv // 2013
For decades the innovation process in R&D organisations has been discussed. Product development processes is well-established in R&D organisations and improvements has been implemented through ...
Towards documentation support for educational design thinking projects
Beyhl, Thomas; Berg, Gregor; Giese, Holger // 2013
The design thinking methodology is an incubator for innovative products and services. Design thinking is based on in-depth interactions with prospective end-users and therefore usually results in ...
Towards the development of commonal product programs
Eilmus, Sandra; Ripperda, Sebastian; Krause, Dieter // 2013
Today many companies encounter the challenge of reducing internal variety by developing modular product families. Yet even more potential for reducing internal variety can be gained by even striving ...
Training for reflective competency in design teams: An empirical study
Weixelbaum, Ilona; Badke-Schaub, Petra; Dörner, Dietrich // 2013
The need for flexibility in designersâ acting and thinking processes can be seen as a core requirement for successful design practice. For designers collaborating in a team gaining cognitive ...
Tutorial sustainable innovations - An innovative role-play concept for education
Rath, Karola; Birkhofer, Herbert; Kloberdanz, Hermann; Hanusch, Dirk // 2013
Developing sustainable products is no easy task. For designers, this means that not only technical requirements for functional performance but also ecological, economic and social requirements have ...
Uncertainty modeling to enable software development platforms that can automate complex mechanical systems design
Otto, Kevin; Levandowski, Christoffer; Forslund, Anders; Johannesson, Hans; Söderberg, Rikard // 2013
Development platforms are automated software tools used to synthesize new designs. They are prevalent in the embedded system design domain, with applications ranging from integrated circuits, circuit ...
Understanding task structure in DSM: Mining dependency using process event logs
Lan, Lijun; Liu, Ying; Loh, Han Tong // 2013
Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) has been widely used to analyze and present the inter-structure of design projects which are often characterized by many interrelated tasks. One essential role of ...
Understanding the context of product development
Gericke, Kilian; Meißner, Moritz; Paetzold, Kristin // 2013
Adaptation of design methodologies to the context in which they should be actually applied is seen as a necessity in order to enhance its acceptance and to widen its application. Even though, a ...
Using PLM and trade-off curves to support set-based convergence of product platforms
Levandowski, Christoffer; Forslund, Anders; Johannesson, Hans // 2013
Platforms may be used as an enabler for offering a variety of products to the market, while keeping the development cost down. Reusing design knowledge is a key concept of platforms, whether ...
Using web crawler technology to support design-related web information collection in idea generation
Wang, Zhihua; Childs, Peter R N; Jiang, Pingfei // 2013
Effective information gathering in problem and task related fields with which designers or design teams may not be familiar is a key part of the design process. Designers usually consult with subject ...
What happens to rejected ideas? – Exploring the life of ideas following the completion of projects
Karlsson, Anna; Törlind, Peter // 2013
In an ongoing development project there is a risk that promising ideas are rejected due to time constraints. Given that ideas are the carriers of innovation, and that novel and radical ideas are, to ...
When to check for deviations in the design process – An approach to determine a systematic checkpoint schedule
Wickel, Martina Carolina; Behncke, Florian; Udo, Lindemann // 2013
Changes in engineering design are a necessary and inevitable part of the design process, be it to improve products or to cope with occurring problems. Changes, however, are often connected with high ...
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.