The Design Process Special Interest Group aims to support industry in understanding, modelling and running design processes by bringing together a community of design researchers and interacting with industry by identifying research challenges in modeling and managing engineering processes and working together to resolve them. The SIG investigates strategies, approaches, methods, and tools for modelling, building up, optimising and managing design processes of complex engineering products.
The SIG members work closely with industry and the SIG wants to respond to the challenges of industry in guiding the research of its members and support practitioners directly through access to workshops and design publications. The SIG’s role is being a facilitator for networking, for identifying research needs, for developing research ideas, and for exchanging and discussing research results, by incorporating researchers and practitioners.