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A Working Knowledge Model for Supporting Early Design through Visual Tools
Devanathan, Srikanth; Sauter, Christian; Albers, Albert; Ramani, Karthik // 2009
In this article, we present a working knowledge model (WKM) that collates information from commonly used visual tools to support iterations in conceptual design of mechanical artifacts. The key ...
Action research into the use of parametric associative CAD systems in an industrial context
Salehi, Vahid; McMahon, Chris // 2009
This paper reports the first stages from a research programme into the application of parametric associative CAD systems adopting the Design Research Methodology (DRM) according to Blessing. The ...
An Agent Based Approach to Modeling Design Teams
Crowder, Richard Michael; Hughes, Helen; Sim, Yee Wai; Robinson, Mark // 2009
It is well recognized that an effective design process is contingent on the joint optimization of both the social and technical aspects of such an activity. Thus interactions between individual ...
An Integrated Approach to Manage New Product Development Processes In The Space Industry
Vittone, Riccardo; Montagna, Francesca // 2009
The New Product Development (NPD) process is characterized by numerous elements of complexity and firms face varied challenges in managing it. Because of the close link with innovative processes and ...
An Integrated Environment for Shape Modeling and Fluid-dynamic Analysis
Bordegoni,Monica; Caruso,Francesco; Ferrise,Francesco; Ambrogio,Marco // 2009
In order to improve the performances of the overall design process of products, it would be beneficial the availability of computer-aided ools supporting conceptual design and simulation activities ...
An MDM-based Approach to Manage Engineering Change Processes across Domains of the Design Process
Ahmad, Nm Wynn D. C.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Analysis of CAX-Interdependencies for An EfficientBusiness-Oriented Training
Troll, Alexander; Zapf, Jochen; Rieg, Frank // 2009
Modern engineering in combination with an effective business can only be managed when there is an efficient way to handle modern tools supporting the product development process. With extended use of ...
ANNACON: Annotation with Constraints to Support Design
Ding, Lian; Matthews, Jason; Mullineux, Glen // 2009
The use of constraint-based and optimization techniques have proven valuable throughout the design process. Environments for such techniques are becoming available as stand alone and add-on packages ...
Annotation in Design Processes: Classification of Approaches
Li, Chunlei; McMahon, Chris; Newnes, Linda // 2009
Collaboration among product designers, manufacturers and end users is a key factor for success in the design process. Effective concurrent design is determined by good communications. Design model ...
Approach for Managing Lean Product Design
Germani, Michele; Raffaeli, Roberto; Mengoni, Maura; Graziosi, Serena // 2009
Flexibility is the main keyword in order to face the rapid changing market requirements. Companies need methods and tools in order to implement flexibility over the whole product development process, ...
Aspects of Nonlinearity in Conceptual Design
Kroll, Ehud; Condoor, Sridhar S. // 2009
Systematic Design methods present a sequential model of conceptual design, whereby function structures are established, solution principles sought, and then combined to form the product concept. We ...
Assembly Simulation for Toleranced Parts: An Adaptes Path Planning Approach
Wittmann, Stefan; Winter, Marco; Paetzold, Kristin // 2009
One crucial task of product development is the definition of tolerances to assure the fulfillment of functional and aesthetic requirements. It is extremely difficult to specify the necessary ...
Assembly-Oriented Product Structure based on Preliminary Assembly Process Engineering
Demoly, Frédéric; Gomes, Samuel; Eynard, Benoît; Rivest, Louis; Sagot, Jean-Claude // 2009
Currently, product design is mainly influenced by customer requirements, i.e. designers are more and more focused to have a well-balanced product between function and form. However, other ...
Assessing Impact Analysis Practice to Improve Change Management Capability
Kilpinen, M. S. ; Eckert, C. M.; Clarkson, P. J. // 2009
Impact analysis (IA) methods and tools support designers in determining the consequences of design changes. As such, the risk of unanticipated propagation of changes, in which an initiating ...
Communication and Design Process Planning: Initial Insights from Literature and Industry Interviews
De Lessio, Mark Philip; Wynn, David C.; Clarkson, P. John // 2009
There is a complementary and bi-directional relationship between communication among design process participants and the planning activity in design. However, while often implied, this relationship ...
Comparative Study of Environmental Evaluation Assessment Using Exergetic LCA Implemented in Existing Software and a Novel Exergetic Approach during the Early Design Phase
Medyna, Galina; Coatanéa, Eric; Millet, Dominique // 2009
Current environmental evaluation analysis methods such as LCA require detailed information about the studied product or process. This leads to uncertain or wrong results when applied during the early ...
Comparing the information content of formal and informal design documents: Lessons for more complete design records
McAlpine, Hamish Chales; Hicks, Ben James; Culley, Stephen // 2009
Even the most routine engineering design projects generate large volumes of formal and informal information by virtue of an ever-increasing variety of tools and systems. During the design process, ...
Concepts in Engineering Design — An Introductory Course in Design Offered in Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum
Krishnan,Kalyana R; Susy,Varughese; Prathap,Haridoss // 2009
“Concepts in Engineering Design” is a core course offered to all the rst year undergraduate students in engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. The primary objective of the course ...
Contact and Channel Modeling to Support Early Design of Technical Systems
Albers, Albert; Braun, Andreas; Clarkson, P. John; Enkler, Hans-Georg; Wynn, David C. // 2009
The early design of mechanical systems is critical because it constrains options later in the design process. In this early stage of the design process, designers must consider customer requirements, ...
Coping with Multidisciplinary Product Development - a Process Model Approach
Krehmer, Hartmut; Eckstein, Raiko; Lauer, Wolfgang; Roelofsen, Julia; Stöber, Christina; Troll, Alexander; Weber, Nadine; Zapf, Jochen // 2009
The aim of this contribution is to introduce a novel process model developed by the research alliance FORFLOW. We claim that our FORFLOW-process model is rather detailed but yet variable and ...
Creating Brand-Innovation Synergy: Towards a Practical Method of Using Brands in the New Product Development Process
Keus, Martyn; Smulders, Frido; Roscam Abbing, Erik; Buijs, Jan // 2009
Brands are more than logos that are "stuck on" products after they have been developed. Before new product concepts are envisioned, brands exist - both in the minds of consumers, and in the ...
Cultural Influences on Design Processes - an Empirical Study
Gautam, Vivek; Blessing, Lucienne // 2009
Product development increasingly involves designers with different cultural backgrounds. This paper describes an investigation into the effects of these different backgrounds on the design process. ...
Decentralized Optimal Design using the Lagrangian Relaxation Approach
Li, Simon // 2009
To minimize the coordination efforts among design teams and expedite the design process via parallel workflow, this paper proposes a framework of decentralized optimal design. The framework consists ...
Decision-Focused Product Development Process Improvements
Eriksson, Joakim; Brannemo, Anette // 2009
Currently, there is little or no methodology or methods available to "process improvers" in product development which focus on decision-making fundamentals in order to improve the ...
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.