scholarly journals Developing Work Uniforms for Women: The Role of Ethnographic Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Mari Bjerck
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Innovation And Development

This article is makes use of fieldwork to discuss and analyse a Norwegian product development project aimed at developing workwear for women in male dominated manual occupations. Making use of ethnographic methods and analysis can be valuable in showing how users’ experiences and practices can be studied also where there are poorly developed concepts and language for formulating and discussing products, such as workwear in use. The article aims at answering how ethnographic studies may contribute to the development of products and services. Understanding people and things in their everyday relations and achieving action-oriented results may be a challenge in innovation and development processes. This article explores such challenges in studying the use of clothes in specific work contexts, as well as capturing and mediating this experience with workwear in use.

Making Design Reviews Count

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Beiter ◽  
Kosuke Ishii ◽  
Harshavardhan Karandikar
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Goal Structure ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Management Techniques

Design reviews are one of the most established product-development project management techniques to identify and eliminate errors in product design before they physically manifest themselves either in a prototype or in the final product. Design reviews are typically embedded within an overall product-development project management process consisting of multiple stages separated by decision gates. The specific goal, structure and content of a design review depend upon the stage and time at which it is performed. In the process of working with a number of large companies on their technology and product development processes we observed that the actual practice of design reviews often falls well short of the companies’ own stated objectives. We examine the reasons for this in our paper, the chief among them being the often misleading application and lack of clarity and brevity in the review process. These problems can be clearly highlighted and rectified by the application of the CVCA and FMEA tools to the design review process itself. Thus, design reviews can be made more efficient and effective and made to count!

scholarly journals The Reference System in the Model of PGE: Proposing a Generalized Description of Reference Products and their Interrelations

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1693-1702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Simon Rapp ◽  
Markus Spadinger ◽  
Thilo Richter ◽  
Clemens Birk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reference System ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Reuse ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Product Generation ◽  
Original Product ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Informational Aspect

AbstractSamsung recently introduced a new smartphone display with increased breaking resistance, which will probably be relevant for future cars as well. This example shows that subsystems, in general artefacts from former development processes can be relevant for subsequent projects. Their integration has to be planned, i.a. even before the original product is in the market and across branches. The research on supporting methods requires a suitable description model for this phenomenon. Research in design reuse and PGE – product generation engineering addresses this only partially yet. Design reuse focuses on the informational aspect, PGE refers primarily to reference products. This contribution aims at closing this gap as a basis for future research. Two case studies from industry projects by the authors and an example from foresight and product planning show the role of artefacts from former development processes in running projects. It is described which artefacts are used as a reference, why they are used and when. Based on these findings the authors propose the term “reference system” to depict the whole set of artefacts, which serves as a basis for every product development project.

Trust and Places - Case Interorganizational Product Development Project

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvi Nenonen ◽  
Minna Andersson ◽  
Mervi Huhtelin ◽  
Juha-Matti Junnonen ◽  
Arja-Liisa Kaasinen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Product Development Project

A new fuzzy decision-making approach for selecting new product development project

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu-Chi Wei ◽  
Agus Andria ◽  
Houn-Wen Xiao ◽  
Chiou-Shuei Wei ◽  
Ting-Chang Lai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Decision ◽  
Product Development Project

scholarly journals Transferring an Interdisciplinary Student Product Development Project to Full Online Conduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-416
Author(s):  
Patrick Herstätter ◽  
Andreas Kohlweiss ◽  
Maria Hulla ◽  
Christian Ramsauer
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Industrial Management ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Critical Phase ◽  
Development Course

"Product Innovation" is a 7-month product development course, conducted at the Institute of Innovation and Industrial Management with international and interdisciplinary student teams. A close connection and interaction between industry, students and research has been an important part of this project-based learning course. Due to the COVID19 pandemic and the worldwide occurring lockdowns, students were not able anymore to interact and conduct their projects in the proven manner. Being in a critical phase of the project, the course concept had to be reorganized and transferred to online conduction by using computer supported collaboration work within a few days. Both observations and surveys were used to compare changes in student´s behaviour and results of the project. This paper will describe 1) the original situation and course concept, 2) show how the course was transformed to online conduction, 3) describe the observations made and 4) analyse how the students experienced the transformation.

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