Design Review a Tool for Product Development Quality Assurance

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ary Pontes De Miranda
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Design Review

DESIGN REVIEW IN A DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT

2006 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEIQUN CAO ◽  
HENDRIK GAERTNER ◽  
HANNES GUDDAT ◽  
ANDREAS M. STRAUBE ◽  
STEFAN CONRAD ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Network Management System ◽  
Product Model ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Collaborative Virtual Environment ◽  
Digital Product ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
High Bandwidth ◽  
Video And Audio

Virtual Reality leads Digital Product Development technology to a more effective and convenient way by presenting the product model in an immersive real 3D environment. Distributed VR even enables partners to discuss the design of the product independent of their locations. This paper introduces our work with a Digital Product Development System with Virtually Cooperating Teams Using High Bandwidth Networks — ProViT, which aims at building up immersive telepresence systems for design review across high-bandwidth networks. Video and audio streaming are integrated in the virtual environment to support immersive teleconference aspects of the distributed design review sessions. A network management system has been developed for the supervision, maintenance and processing of distributed setups, and network security.

Usability Inspections - Their Potential Contribution

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Prail ◽  
Michael J. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Problem Analysis ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Hewlett Packard ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Development Lifecycle

A Usability Inspection is a specific formal design review methodology to identify and prioritize potential usability defects in a given design. More formal than heuristic evaluations (Nielsen – Molich, 1990), less complex than cognitive walkthroughs (Polson et al., 1992), the methodology is a task-oriented review process that started as an adaptation of the Kepner-Tregoe Potential Problem Analysis and further evolved to heavily leverage a formal generic inspections methodology in use at Hewlett-Packard. This evolution by adaptation of standard generic methods already understood by engineers in Hewlett-Packard has been a conscious design strategy in the hope that this would ease the adoption process. The key question for a practitioner in the field is - does the method provide sufficient return on investment to be worth including in a product development process. There is some evidence that design review methods carried out by non-Human Factors engineers do successfully find defects (Nielsen – Molich, 1990, Lewis et al., 1990, Jeffries et al., 1991). Bailey (1992) raised the question as to whether heuristic evaluations may be counterproductive in that they actually may create work rather than save it. To date, the research has largely focussed on the contribution a method may provide to a specific product or interface. This paper argues the case for a wider definition and understanding of potential utility or contribution from a Human Factors method and further claims that usability inspections not only provide a sufficient payback to warrant their inclusion in a product development lifecycle but also provide the seeds of organization change that are needed to make usability engineering a reality.

scholarly journals Current situation and development of the bee-keeping sector in Hungary

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
László Kárpáti ◽  
Zsolt Csapó ◽  
Georgina Árváné Ványi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Product Development ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Employment Rate ◽  
The European Union

Rural development has become more and more important issue in Hungary since rural areas also contribute to the efficiency of the national economy. Development of rural areas also very important issue in the European Union, which could contribute to the improvement of profitability of small family businesses, higher employment rate in rural areas as well as slow down the migration of people from rural into urban areas. Nowadays the bee-keeping– as one of the activities can provide alternative income for small businesses in rural areas– has become more and more important topic in Hungary. Bee-keeping sector provides income roughly 15 thousands families in Hungary. At the same time it takes important role in the preservation of rural landscape, traditions and their regional values. However, the sector has serious problems, as well (for instance quality issues, competitors on the market, etc.). It can be stated that the market position of Hungarian honey can be preserved through the improvement of quality assurance and product development. These developments can be carried out by the utilization of national and European Union funds.

Features: Semantic Objects for the Integration of Tasks in the Product Development Process

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.-L. Krause ◽  
M. Ciesla ◽  
E. Rieger ◽  
M. Stephan ◽  
A. Ulbrich
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Internal Representation ◽  
Feature Model ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Integrated Planning ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Geometrical Information

Abstract For the integration of the tasks to be mastered within the development process it is necessary to take account of non-geometrical information, from product design to manufacturing process, alongside geometrical design shape. The introduction of objects as carriers of semantic information leads to the use of features. In the present contribution, a concept and its realization are described that facilitate a flexible definition and computer-internal representation as well as the interpretation of features as semantically endowed objects. Based on the feature model, approaches are introduced for the support of product development with the partial tasks conception, design, integrated planning of manufacture and quality assurance.

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!

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