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Simulations contribute to the efficiency of the product development process and the quality of the developed products. However, their integration in the development process can be improved. We propose a knowledge-based framework, containing a toolkit of simulation methods as its central element to integrate simulations in the product development process. Within this paper, we briefly introduce the...
User Experience Design (UXD) addresses the increasing importance of emotional aspects in user product interaction and aims at creating holistic experiences. While UXD is a rather young field within product development, other disciplines outside engineering design (e.g. gaming, sports) traditionally focus on fascinating their users. Based on the approach of transferring insights from experience focused...
Manufacturing firms respond to fierce competition on global markets through a concentration on their core competences. As a result, the competitive position of OEMs depends on the individual performance of their suppliers as well as their arrangement in the supply chain. Against this background this paper presents the results of a literature review on optimization models of supply chains. Thereby,...
In evolutionary grown mechatronic systems, the involved disciplines are often not sufficiently integrated. For optimization and improvement of this situation, the system and its functional dependencies are modeled. During the steps of defining objects and building up the model, the identification of functional dependencies is challenging. This contribution presents an approach to support these steps...
The assembly process constitutes an important influencing parameter of product development. Therefore, a product architecture has to be designed taking constraints and requirements deriving from the manufacturing and the assembly process into consideration. This paper introduces a systematic approach to optimize product architecture from the assembly process point of view by enhancing modular design.
Dynamic changes and variations play a decisive role in innovation processes. By addressing the aspect of cycles that is reoccurring temporal or structural patterns within development processes as well as in their context, this research contributes to an enhanced understanding of complex dynamic interdependencies. Therefore, two development projects are analyzed and a series of interviews with industry...
Today??s complex products and their associated development processes require the engineer to consider an increasing variety of influencing factors such as the current design situation or the available information. Though recent enhancements of process management systems show progress with administrative and production processes, the support of highly iterative, flexible and unpredictable product development...
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