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Procedure for selecting knowledge elicitation methods with regard to knowledge types
Roth, Daniel; Binz, Hansgeorg // 2013
The intention of this paper is to propose a procedure that illustrates how elicitation methods appropriate for knowledge types (domains) might be selected. Analysing existing literature suggests that ...
Product design in latecomer firms: Case of Turkish medical device industry
Eroğlu, Ilgım; Çifter, Abdüsselam Selami // 2013
Medical devices is a new and developing market in Turkey. However, it is dominated by import trade products. Although there is an increasing number of Turkish producers, they face certain problems ...
Product-Service systems design education and a new interdisciplinary service design graduate program
Kim, Yong Se; Lee, Sang Won; Lee, Seong Il; Kim, Kee-Ok; Kim, Myoun; Won, Jong Hoon // 2013
A Product-Service Systems (PSS) is composed of service and product elements to provide values for relevant stakeholders. PSS designing includes both service and product design aspects, but a ...
Project Risk Management using DSMs
Minogue, P. // 2013
In best practice Project Management (PM) and project schedule creation, a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a prerequisite for comprehensive task identification. Where task dependencies are ...
Proofs of utility, innovation, profitability and concept for innovation selection
Yannou, Bernard; Zimmer, Benjamin; Farel, Romain; Jankovic, Marija; Stal-Le Cardinal, Julie // 2013
Selecting innovative ideas or projects and comparing them in terms of their potential of value creation in business contexts is a fundamental design task. To that end, we propose to assess four ...
Reuse of requirements: An approach with a generic requirements pool
Orawski, Robert; Hein, Christoph; Polenov, Dieter; Holle, Maik; Schenkl, Sebastian; Mörtl, Markus; Lindemann, Udo // 2013
This paper deals with the implementation of a methodology which describes how to reuse given requirements in an industrial company. With an increasing rate of new products projects and an increased ...
Robust conception of vehicles considering region-specific requirements
Nehuis, Frank; Sánchez Ruelas, Jafet G.; Stechert, Carsten; Vietor, Thomas // 2013
Changes in automotive markets and technologies amplify the issue of fulfilling requirements for all customers within a single vehicle concept. An increasing development of regional markets demands ...
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 ...
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.