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- Janhager, Jenny, et al.
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Survey on Product Development Methods, Design Competencies, and Communication in Swedish Industry
- 2002
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Ingår i: Proceedings of TMCE 2002, Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article presents the results of a questionnaire survey carried out during the spring of 2000. The results are based on the answers provided by a total of 99 respondents. Among other results the survey revealed that more than half of the responding companies have a formally documented strategy for product development work. Regarding disciplinary competencies, it is shown that design engineers are involved in practically all product development projects. Industrial designers are also widely employed, while ergonomics competence is used in less than half of the projects. Design engineering is the most widely employed competence in product development work for all investigated product development tasks, except for ergonomics and aesthetic design tasks. The latter are most commonly carried out by ergonomists and industrial designers, respectively. Most small companies experience good contact with end users, whereas larger companies appear less successful in that respect. The same result applies to perceived communication with other professional categories, as well as access to information. Most of the respondents including project managers, design engineers and development managers answered they have daily contact with design engineers. Among the same respondents, daily contact with industrial designers and ergonomists is very infrequent. Regarding opinions on the product development process, nearly half of the respondents stated they frequently discuss the use of methods and procedures. One third of the respondents agreed that a better-formulated process description than the currently used would facilitate product development work. It was also concluded that nearly one third of the respondents agreed on having difficulties reflecting upon ongoing work, due to, e.g., lack of time.
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- Persson, Sara, 1974, et al.
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Relational Modes between Industrial Design and Engineering Design – a Conceptual Model for Interdisciplinary Design Work
- 2003
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th Asian Design International Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Focus on customer and market needs has initialized changes in product development work, which involve integration of industrial design and engineering design functions. Interdisciplinary teams are considered a prerequisite in order to achieve collaboration, and a necessity to meet market demands in new products. However, interdisciplinary teams are inherently associated with collaborative shortcomings. In this work, relations between industrial designers and engineering designers in product development work are studied. Project members have difficulties working together unambiguously due to the fact that each functional member has his or her focus and experience of design work. This results in an inefficient process, characterized by limited understanding and respect of each others competencies and viewpoints. Based on empirical findings and communication theory, this paper describes the different relational modes between industrial designers and engineering designers and the significance each such level constitute. This paper suggests a first step to improve collaboration by identifying characteristics of different modes of relations. The interactive modes represent one-way communication, reciprocal communication, interaction and collaboration. In order to achieve collaboration a number of prerequisites need to be fulfilled: firstly, information has to be externalized in a language that is understood by both sender and receiver. A further step, reciprocal communication is needed to ensure that the content of the message has been understood. Interaction implies a common understanding of how individuals activities relate to one another. Finally, collaboration has been achieved when integrated work result in a common understanding of the situation and the design work mutually entail both parties perspectives. This situation should be the aim of any fully interactive work environment.
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- Pohl, J, et al.
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Conceptual Design of a Hydraulic Valve Train System
- 2001
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Ingår i: Acta Polytechnica - Czech Technical University in Prague. - 1210-2709. ; 41:4/5, s. 20-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Variable valve train systems have been brought into focus during recent years as a means to decrease fuel consumption in tomorrow’s combustion engines. In this paper an integrated approach, called simulation driven experiments, is utilised in order to aid the development of such highly dynamic systems. Through the use of systematic design methodology, a number of feasible concepts are developed. Critical components are subsequently identified using simulation. In this approach, component behaviour is simulated and validated by measurements on prototype components. These models are unified with complete system models of hydraulically actuated valve trains. In the case of the valve trains systems studied here component models could be validated using comparably simple test set-ups. These models enable the determination of non-critical design parameters in an optimal sense. This results in a number of optimised concepts facilitating an impartial functional concept selection.
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- Warell, Anders
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Den visuella formen – mer än bara yta
- 2004
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Ingår i: Med människan i centrum : :teknisk design, 2004 - :teknisk design, 2004. - 9197507903
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Warell, Anders, 1970
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Design Syntactics: A Functional Approach to Visual Product Form Theory, Models, and Methods
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In line with the increasing importance of high quality appearance and aesthetic appeal in the design of consumer products, there is a growing need for enhanced understanding and ability to handle visual product form in industrial product development. In an approach for meeting that need, this thesis concerns the nature and development of visual design aesthetics in product form design. The contributions provide a means for enhanced reasoning about the structure and function of form design. The aim is that the findings will provide support for the specification, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of visual product form in relation to technical aspects in the area industrial design and engineering design interaction. In the thesis, theory, models and methods supporting the development of such product aspects are proposed. Based on theoretical elements from a number of fields, including engineering design science, design semiotics, form aesthetics, and visual perception, a hybrid theory for visual design aesthetics is proposed, which links the aesthetic form of the product to functional reasoning. Through the theoretical framework of design syntactics, a descriptive model of the nature and workings of the visual product form is developed. The framework consists of three main conceptual elements; form functionality, concerning the purpose and function of visual product form; form syntactics, related to the structure and organization of the visual form; and design formats, associated with form content and design philosophy from a company perspective. Based on the modeling framework, methodology support for form design activities in industrial design development is proposed. The three suggested methods include approaches for analysis of technically and aesthetically determined functionality of form, for development of visual form aesthetics in product design, and for the creation of design formats for utilization in operative and strategic design development.
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