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Reverse engineering in circular product development
Markus Breidohr; Johannes Meyer; Hariharan Ravichandran; David Inkermann // 2024
In order to preserve our planet and protect the climate, resources must be conserved. Circular product development in particular can help to conserve resources by removing components from used ...
Supporting Design for Circular Economy Using Unit Manufacturing Process Simulations Models
Aher, Gaurav; Ramanujan, Devarajan // 2024
To identify the use of simulation models in design for circular economy (DfCE) this paper reviews prior work in this domain and classifies them according to the primary application objectives. Our ...
Sustainability Implications of Using Additive Manufacturing for Production Tool Design
Hajali, Tina; I. Hallstedt, Sophie; Isaksson, Ola // 2024
As the application of Additive manufacturing (AM) is moving from prototyping to final product manufacturing, exploring its sustainability implications is crucial. This paper explores the ...
Towards an Approach for the Target-Size-Oriented Selection and Adaptation of Methods for the Development of Modular Product Families
Lea-Nadine Woller; Maximilian Ridder; Dieter Krause // 2024
Increasing customer demands and intensifying competition lead many companies to expand their product portfolios continuously, posing challenges for manufacturing firms. Modular product families offer ...
Towards Design for Cross-Generational Remanufacturing: A Literature Review and Concept Proposal
Tusch, Leonard; Jackle, Michael; Albers, Albert // 2024
This paper proposes the concept of cross-generational (CG) remanufacturing, integrating remanufactured components into new products for the primary market to overcome trade-offs between new-product ...
TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING IN PRODUCT DESIGN WORKSHOPS: A GENERATIVE AI ASSISTANT APPROACH
Gutierrez Contreras, Luis Miguel; Acuña López, Alejandro // 2024
Product design workshops represent environments where technological progress has had a significant impact, especially in prototype creation processes, encompassing both the technology employed in ...
UNDERSTANDING EMERGING MATERIALS AND THEIR INTEGRATION PATTERNS FOR DESIGNING NEW PRODUCTS WITH ENHANCED EXPERIENTIAL VALUE
Rafique, Usman Khalid; Raja, Mubashir Karim; Tufail, Muhammad // 2024
Material-driven design is a novel approach to product design starting with a thorough understanding of materials, unlike the traditional design process, which determines materials at later stages. ...
Utilization of SysML System Models for Smart Assembly Using Digital Twins
Wilking, Fabian; Kaup, Simon; Fett, Michel; Goetz, Stefan; Kirchner, Eckhard; Wartzack, Sandro // 2024
Digital Twins are a promising technology to increase the value of products and create new business models. As models are an essential component of these Digital Twin concepts, the reuse of models is ...
A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE TEACHING IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Masen, Marc; Butt, Ahmed Tamkin; Agg, Chloe // 2023
This paper draws parallels and contrasts between the Design-focussed learning tracks of the Mechanical Engineering courses at Imperial College London (ICL) and Nottingham Trent University (NTU). ...
A Designer's understanding of the maker movement
von Platen, Vilhelm;Kitani, Yoji // 2023
The maker movement has garnered interest from many disparate fields, from engineering to business management, to behavioural science, to city planning. The reason for this interest no doubt stems ...
A DFAM Framework for the Design of Compliant Structures
Air, Alan (1,2);Wodehouse, Andrew (1) // 2023
Additive manufacturing methods present prospects for designed mechanical deformation via the integration of controlled anisotropic lattice structure forms. Their assimilation into a Design for ...
A Method for Reducing Fuzziness and Accelerating New Product Modelling in CAD : the case of Design for Manufacturing
Bluntzer, Jean-Bernard;Barret, Régis; Ostrosi, Egon // 2023
Improvements in product development can increase the competitiveness of firms. However, new product development in CAD systems involves difficulties and uncertainties that increase along with the ...
A method to capture and share production requirements supporting a collaborative production preparation process
Areth Koroth, Rohith;Elgh, Fredrik;Lennartsson, Martin;Raudberget, Dag // 2023
The production preparation process (3P) enables collaboration between design and production engineers during product development but its efficiency is limited by the abundance of documentation of ...
A multi-criteria decision-making approach to optimize the part build orientation in additive manufacturing
Sartini, Mikhailo (1);Luca, Manuguerra (1);Claudio, Favi (2);Marco, Mandolini (1) // 2023
The part build orientation is a manufacturing variable that must be considered when designing a product to maximise AM opportunities. There are several approaches to selecting the best print ...
A review on real vehicle usage modelling of driverless multipurpose vehicles in vehicle routing problems
Andreolli, Raphael (1,2,3,5); Nybacka, Mikael (1,2); O'Reilly, Ciarán J. (1,3); Jenelius, Erik (4); Falkgrim, Eric (5) // 2023
Real vehicle usage rarely matches the predictions made during early phases of vehicle development and sales processes at commercial road vehicle manufacturers. The automotive industry needs ...
A STUDY OF CONSIDERATION FOR IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE OF PORTABLE TOILETS IN THE POST-PANDEMIC ERA
Yeh, Tse-Yen; Shih, Yi-Teng // 2023
Portable Toilets, also referred to as porta potties, are movable toilets that are often placed outdoors for places with limited toilet access or with crowded areas, such as tourist sites, ...
AN ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SUPPORTED SUPPLY CHAIN – EDUCATIONAL CASE STUDIES
Sewell, Philip; Batley, Abigail; Roberts, William // 2023
The goal of traditional supply chain spare parts management is to maintain a minimum level of spare parts inventory whilst still being able to fulfil demand and maintain customer satisfaction. Much ...
Analysis of the differential-growth method's potential for designing complex heat-transferring walls for compact heat exchanger
Seidler, Alexander;Holtzhausen, Stefan;Sander, Maximilian;Paetzold-Byhain, Kristin // 2023
Water scarcity and resource depletion can be expected during the climate crisis. Therefore, thermally loaded processes in particular, must be made more efficient in the future. Heat exchangers will ...
Application of Bio-Bricks & its benefits
Rautray, Priyabrata (1);
Roy, Avik (2);
Eisenbart, Boris (3) // 2023
The practice-led research focuses on how agro-waste can be used to build a structure, gather relevant knowledge, and identify its various challenges. Based on the compressive strength of Bio-Bricks, ...
Application of unsupervised learning and image processing into classification of designs to be fabricated with additive or traditional manufacturing
Ördek, Baris; Borgianni, Yuri // 2023
Manufacturing process (MP) selection systems require a large amount of labelled data, typically not provided as design outputs. This issue is made more severe with the continuous development of ...
Applications of Rotational Manipulators in the Manufacture and Characterization of Highly Curved Thin Films
McIntyre, Finn (1);
Sellier, Mathieu (1);
Gooch, Shayne (1);
Nock, Volker (2);
Sharplin, Nigel (3) // 2023
What do common devices such as smartphones, CD’s and solar panels all have in common? They are all examples of innovative technology that is still limited to flat, rigid geometries. This is primarily ...
B-spline based metamodel of the thermal analysis of the wire arc additive manufacturing process.
Zani, Mathilde (1);Montemurro, Marco (1);Panettieri, Enrico (1);Marin, Philippe (2) // 2023
Among additive manufacturing processes, wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is one of the most promising methods for manufacturing complex near-net-shape parts, as it allows the layer-by-layer ...
Barriers from a socio-technical perspective to implement digitalisation in industrial engineering processes – a literature review
Hane Hagström, Malin; Bergsjö, Dag; Wahrén, Henrik // 2023
With the paradigm shift towards Industry 4.0 and digitalisation, manufacturing engineers face several unexplored challenges; in the products for which they are designing production, in the equipment ...
Challenges of Product Modularization Methods in SMEs: Lessons Learned from a Manufacturer of Rigid Inflatable Boats
Silva, Tiago; Santos, Cláudio // 2023
Nowadays, Western rigid inflatable boat (RIB) manufacturers are facing increased competition from Asian and Middle East producers and the need to push the modularization of their product ...
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.