scholarly journals FOSTERING PROTOTYPING MINDSETS IN NOVICE DESIGNERS WITH THE PROTOTYPING PLANNER

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1725-1734 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. A. Hansen ◽  
L. S. Jensen ◽  
A. G. Özkil ◽  
N. M. Martins Pacheco
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Novice Designers

AbstractPrototyping is an essential activity in product development, but novice designers lack awareness and purpose when they prototype. To foster prototyping mindsets in novice designers, we introduce a prototyping support tool that structures prototyping activities. This paper outlines the Prototyping Planner's development, evolution, and evaluation by 125 novice designers. The majority of novice designers’ experienced that the Prototyping Planner helped them create purposeful prototypes and evaluate results from prototyping.

QFD and CE as Methodologies for a Quality Assurance in Product Development

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose´ Ricardo Alcantara ◽  
Kazuo Hatakeyama
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Local Companies ◽  
Selection Of

Quality Function Deployment — QFD combined with Concurrent Engineering — CE as a support tool for the competitive strategy on product development is devised. In this study, beyond the proposed method, it is intended to develop relations with innovational models, arrangements of innovation and technology transfer, learning in organizations, and how the diffusion of knowledge occurs. QFD can also be one those main tools of CE as this identifies the customer’s main requirements translating into the features required for products. The field survey of exploratory and descriptive type, using the questionnaire as data collection technique, was carried out in the manufacturing companies in the fast growing sectors of automobile industries in the State of Parana located in the Southern of Brazil. The selection of sample companies was made intentionally to guarantee of return of answer through the accessibility criteria. The reasons for this fact that can be pointed out are: the use of “home made” methodology to fulfill customer’s requirements, unknowing of the methodology, and the lack of adequate training to use QFD. It is expected that the results of findings, if disseminated adequately among local companies, will help to enhance the competitiveness performance beyond the local market scenario.

Design for Production: A Tool for Reducing Manufacturing Cycle Time

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey W. Herrmann ◽  
Mandar M. Chincholkar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Cycle Time ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Cycle Times

Abstract This paper describes a decision support tool that can help a product development team reduce manufacturing cycle time during product design. This design for production (DFP) tool determines how manufacturing a new product design affects the performance of the manufacturing system by analyzing the capacity requirements and estimating the manufacturing cycle times. Performing these tasks early in the product development process can reduce product development time. The paper presents a comprehensive DFP approach and describes the components of the DFP tool, which gives feedback that can be used to eliminate manufacturing cycle time problems. We present an example that illustrates the tool’s functionality.

scholarly journals Team Software Process (TSPI) Web-Based Support Tool

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S8) ◽  
pp. 1469-1474
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Software Process ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Software Developer ◽  
System A ◽  
Team Software Process ◽  
High Level ◽  
Web Based System

One of the goals as a system or software developer that need to be achieved is to produce a product or system that can be considered as a high-level quality of a product. To help the developer produce a good quality of a product, a tool that will help them make their work easier and efficient is needed. TSPi Tool is one of the methods that can be used by the developer to plan their project, record the project progress, record defect and solve the defects. Currently, FCSIT students who're taking the Software Engineering and Laboratory are using the TSPi Support Tool (Excel Version). However, there are problems exists such as time-consuming which affects the progress of the project. The proposed solution for arising problems was the Team Software Process (TSPi) Tool Web-Based System, a web-based management system to manage and monitor the progress of the product development.

scholarly journals NOVICE DESIGNERS' USE OF PARTITIONING STRATEGIES TO NAVIGATE THE PROTOTYPING PROCESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2267-2276
Author(s):  
Camilla Arndt Hansen ◽  
Michael Deininger
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Teams ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Novice Designers ◽  
Do So

AbstractPrototypes can be used to create value in all phases of the product development process. Prototyping strategies that determine how prototypes are developed should therefore be considered for the prototyping process as a whole. In this paper, we analyse how partitioning strategies were used by ten novice design teams to navigate their prototyping processes during a three-week mechatronic development project. Using the ‘ProtoMapping’ method, their prototyping strategies were visualized and five different types of strategies identified. Four of the ten teams formally planned how to divide their product into modules that could be prototyped in parallel or planned when to integrate prototypes to test the full product. Still, the ProtoMaps showed that most of the teams used some partitioning strategies during their project even when they did not formally decide to do so. Novice designers should be supported in making such strategies for the prototyping process deliberately. Therefore, prototyping tools should be expanded to support not only individual prototyping activities but also the prototyping process.

scholarly journals ASSESSING THE FUTURE: METHODS AND CRITERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 569-576
Author(s):  
I. Gräßler ◽  
H. Thiele ◽  
P. Scholle
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Corporate Foresight ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Work

AbstractAs time-to-market is getting shorter, customer needs have to be identified as early as possible in product development. Correctly applied, corporate foresight can give a glimpse into the future to anticipate such needs and thus gain a competitive advantage. A support tool to choose the appropriate method of foresight is not available yet. Thus, a literature study on foresight methods in industry is performed and a novel decision support tool is proposed which avoids high entrepreneurial risks. Based on the findings, potentials for future work are identified for different types of methods.

Effects of Structured Prototyping Support on Novice Designers’ Prototyping Plans

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Arndt Hansen ◽  
Tobias Eifler ◽  
Michael Deininger
Keyword(s):  
Design Teams ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Design Performance ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Novice Designers ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Methodological support has the potential to improve the design performance of novice designers. This study investigated the effects that structured prototyping support has on novice designers’ prototyping plans. We compared the prototyping plans made by 33 design teams using minimum guidance with plans made using a prototyping support tool, the Prototyping Planner. Specifically, the questions answered in the plans, the testing purpose, and the plan structure were compared. Unsupported plans varied in length and scope. Some teams focused on a few selected tests while others used their plans to brainstorm multiple different types of tests without planning how to execute them. 81% of novice designers agreed that their supported prototyping plans were better than their unsupported plans. The Prototyping Planner ensured that all teams selected a clear and narrow purpose for their prototype and planned how to execute it. Plan length increased 12% overall and more for the teams that had made the shortest initial plans. This research shows that different types of prototyping plans exist. The Prototyping Planner supports novice designers well in planning a specific prototyping activity, but to support planning of the prototyping process it must be extended or used in combination with other support.

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