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- Benaim, Andre, et al.
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The implementation of Innovation Metrics: A case study
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design. - : The Design Society. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. - 9781904670711 ; 8, s. 213-224
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The paper explores the implementation process of an innovation measuring system prototype to support a heavy machinery multinational company to secure their innovative capability. In general, companies recognize the importance of becoming innovative to become, or remain, competitive on a global market. The case company decided to pilot a metric system that corresponds to the crucial factors to secure innovative capability and work with the stepwise improvement based on the assessment results. The methods are based on design-research approach and participatory action research. Interviews, surveys and observation were used, as well as, workshops were conducted to develop and follow up the implementation innovation measuring system. The findings explore topics and open questions related to metric selection, purpose and use of the selected indicators, as well as challenges related to the implementation of the metric system. Some of the conclusions question the viability of measuring project teams, as well as, it suggests the need for further research to clarify whether team metrics need to be develop in parallel to organizational ones.
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- Almefelt, Lars, 1968, et al.
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Design Methodology Applied for Product Innovation in a Multi-disciplinary Project - A Case Study
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. - 9781904670711 ; 8:DS 80-08, s. 101-110
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper takes its departure in the results of a research project aiming to develop resource-economicand lightweight car concepts and subsystems, as well as to stimulate cross-company businessnetworking. The project was carried out through collaboration between an automotive manufacturer,35 automotive suppliers, and six universities, most with Swedish affiliation. The initial phase of theproject was devoted to a creative concept study. For this purpose, a research team selected andfacilitated systematic design methods for requirements setting, creation, and evaluation of productconcepts. Through a workshop-based approach, 63 individuals organised in eight sub-teams set out ondeveloping innovative product concepts using the methods. This paper describes these methods as wellas demonstrates their application.
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- Axelsson, Louise, 1990, et al.
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The Characteristics of Excellent Designers - Findings from an Interview Study with Swedish Innovators
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. - 9781904670711 ; 80:DS 80-08, s. 131-140
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Some designers are more successful than others. They have the ability to repeatedly generate new and innovative solutions to challenging problems. In this paper, we refer to designers who possess this level of skill as “excellent designers”. It would seem interesting to identify the characteristics of such individuals in order to better understand why they succeed while ordinary designer do not. However, there have been few published studies of excellent designers, and these studies have focused on one or a few individuals.In this paper, we account for a study of a larger group (15) of excellent designers. The aims were first to identify their particular set of knowledge, experience, working practices and personal characteristics and then to use the findings to generate proposals for how employers and educator can nurture excellent designers.
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- Stylidis, Konstantinos, 1978, et al.
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Structuring Perceived Quality Attributes For Use In The Design Process
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. - 9781904670711 ; 7:DS 80-07, s. 33-42
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Perceived quality has received much attention the last decade, mainly in the automotive industry. The focal drivers are the competitiveness within the premium segment, and customers’ high demands. The existing definitions of perceived quality found in the literature are fuzzy. Methods for assessing perceived quality do exist, however the attributes need to be incorporated into existing design support systems to be efficiently used in the design process. This paper is a first attempt to merge a new terminology framework of perceived quality with an apparent problem, observed at an automotive company, of incorporating perceived quality in the product design process. A case study was conducted at an automotive company to depict the current state of managing information. It was uncovered that information is scattered across systems and that the way to package information is assorted. A new framework, introducing Value Based Perceived Quality and Technical Perceived Quality is presented. To better incorporate the attributes into the design process, a platform system model is proposed. In this way, perceived quality attributes can be reused for various design applications.
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- Almefelt, Lars, 1968, et al.
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A tool for assessing customers' barriers for consuming remanufactured products
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. ; 1:DS87-1, s. 11-20
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- One opportunity to address our world's environmental challenges is to change our patterns of consumption towards more sustainable ones, e.g. buying used products, renting products, and joining pools for co-consumption. All of these patterns share at least one point of departure: They imply that people use products that other people have used before. In this context, remanufacturing is a particular opportunity. In principle, remanufacturing means that a used product is industrially renovated in order to assure quality. However, remanufacturing is still just a niche, and the established pattern of consumption and production-involving new products-is very dominant. Reflecting this, there is a need to better understand how to gain acceptance for remanufactured products, and in particular to understand customers' barriers and drivers for consuming used and remanufactured products. Reflecting this background, the tool presented in this paper is aiming to support remanufacturing organisations to get a better understanding about the customers and their possible ways of reasoning when they approach an offer based on a remanufactured product.
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- Aranda Muñoz, Alvaro, et al.
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THE KARAKURI CARD DECK: CO-DESIGNING INDUSTRIAL IOT CONCEPTUAL SOLUTIONS
- 2020
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Ingår i: Proceedings of INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE – DESIGN 2020. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 2633-7762. ; 1, s. 807-816
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Novel IoT market solutions and research promise IoT modules that do not require programming or electrical setup, yet shop floor personnel need to face problem solving activities to create technical solutions. This paper introduces the Karakuri card deck and presents a case study composed of four workshop sessions in four manufacturing settings, where shop floor personnel tested the cards as a means of ideating and presenting conceptual IoT solutions in the form of diagrams. The results indicate the validity of the proposed conceptual solutions and suggest prototyping as a next step.
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- Arnarsson, Ívar Örn, 1988, et al.
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Design Analytics is the Answer, But What Questions Would Product Developers Like to Have Answered?
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. ; 7:DS87-7, s. 71-80
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is a growing need for data expertise and data analysis. Companies are looking more towards analytics for improvement opportunities within the business and products. Data collection is growing at a fast pace and we need capabilities to be able to analyze it. The data volume that companies are sitting on makes this task even more important. The paper presents interviews performed with product developers who have worked on a large complex system development project. The findings explain questions and needs developers are facing and what answers they are looking for with data mining. By Identifying beneficial and meaningful outputs from data mining and data analytics, developers can be supported in making better decisions for a new designs/re-designs and ultimately make a superior robust product. The paper further accounts for 20 heterogeneous purposefully sample interviews, ranging in project roles from product development to manufacturing and testing.
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- Arnarsson, Ívar Örn, 1988, et al.
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Supporting Knowledge Re-Use with Effective Searches of Related Engineering Documents - A Comparison of Search Engine and Natural Language-Based Processing Algorithms
- 2019
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. ; 2019-August, s. 2597-2606
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Product development companies are collecting data in form of Engineering Change Requests for logged design issues and Design Guidelines to accumulate best practices. These documents are rich in unstructured data (e.g., free text) and previous research has pointed out that product developers find current it systems lacking capabilities to accurately retrieve relevant documents with unstructured data. In this research we compare the performance of Search Engine & Natural Language Processing algorithms in order to find fast related documents from two databases with Engineering Change Request and Design Guideline documents. The aim is to turn hours of manual documents searching into seconds by utilizing such algorithms to effectively search for related engineering documents and rank them in order of significance. Domain knowledge experts evaluated the results and it shows that the models applied managed to find relevant documents with up to 90% accuracy of the cases tested. But accuracy varies based on selected algorithm and length of query.
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- Berlin, Cecilia, 1981, et al.
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Using the ACD3-ladder to manage multi-phase requirements on end-user products
- 2017
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED. - 2220-4334 .- 2220-4342. - 9781904670872 ; 4:DS87-4, s. 425-434
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the development of any end-user product, a multitude of design decisions need to be made. But if design activities and decisions happen at the wrong time, or not at all, unintentional and sometimes negative design outcomes can be the result. Determining all requirements early in the product development is traditionally recommended, but may force design decisions to be made prematurely onthe basis of incomplete preconditions. Requirements at different degrees of resolution are useful and purposeful at different stages of the development process. To address these requirements management challenges, this paper proposes an approach for incrementally developing requirements in parallel with design, based upon a previously developed framework called ACD³, which draws on a combination of theoretically compatible ideas and concepts from Design Engineering, Human Factors/Ergonomics,Usability and Systems Theory. This approach helps designers identify and handle the possible interdependencies of design variables. The paper also theoretically motivates and demonstrates with an example how the different resolution levels of requirements relate within the framework.
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- Bertoni, Marco, et al.
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Value-driven engineering design : lessons learned from the road construction equipment industry
- 2017
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Ingår i: DS87-1 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING DESIGN (ICED 17), VOL 1: RESOURCE SENSITIVE DESIGN, DESIGN RESEARCH APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES. - : The Design Society. - 9781904670896 ; 1:DS87-1, s. 319-328
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Value models, in form of economical optimization functions, are often proposed to frontload engineering design activities. However, literature argues that, when qualitative data and assumptions prevail, a qualitative assessment of the ‘goodness’ of a design is preferable against a numerical (and monetary-based) encoding of preferences. This paper explores how a model-based approach can support deliberation about value in cross-functional design teams. Emerging from case studies in the road compaction equipment industry, the paper analyzes preferences for value modelling support when it comes to iteratively translate customer desires into terms meaningful for engineering design decision-making. It further prescribes a framework for value-driven engineering design that considers the need to update the value model definition as far as new information become available in the process, moving from qualitative to quantitative. The findings highlight the role the proposed chain of value models plays in terms of providing a shared reference to stimulate value discussions across functions and organizational roles, which is something that does not naturally happen in the organization today.
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