scholarly journals Communicating design knowledge to support technology management in the manufacturing industry:

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-16
Author(s):  
Janne Mämmelä ◽  
Tuomas Korhonen ◽  
Tero Juuti ◽  
Pasi Julkunen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Technology Management ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Manufacturing Environment ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Visual Form

The aim of this paper is to the advance pragmatic constructivist understanding about communication in the productdevelopment context. In particular, the paper provides new understanding about how proactive truth about designknowledge can be constructed and communicated within product development actors. The paper shows how companyrepresentatives in the manufacturing environment, e.g., managers and engineers can together understand the customervalue-creation mechanisms of a specific product and integrate their expert knowledge into visual form. Building thecollective understanding requires communication between these actors. Ultimately, the actors may be able to construct auseful proactive truth about related business potentials and thereby support technology management in the productdevelopment context.

Decision making in creating the world's first smartphone

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Virginia Cha
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Technology Management ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
New Product ◽  
Future Market ◽  
Market Uncertainty ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Generation

TitleDecision making in creating the world's first smartphoneSubject areaEntrepreneurship, Technology management and new product development.Study level/applicabilityThis class is useable for an EMBA or MBA audience, especially for modules relating to entrepreneurship, technology management and new product development.Case overviewMr Khaw Kheng Joo was a pioneer in Singapore's high‐technology manufacturing industry. In the mid‐1990s, Khaw was given the difficult task of establishing a presence for Hewlett‐Packard (HP) in the handheld Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. However, he believed that the PDA was not the game‐changing technology for consumers.Using his knowledge of the Bell Curve and years of entrepreneurial experience, Khaw sought to combine PDA functionalities with the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) technology, effectively creating a new generation of mobile device fondly known today as the “smartphone”.The journey towards the finished product was met with several obstacles and barriers. Many colleagues were uncertain of the future market and had difficulty agreeing on which features to focus on. However, through his determination, expertise and decision making in uncertainty, Khaw guided his team to eventually launch the impressive HP Jornada 928, the world's first smartphone, and heralded a new generation of mobile devices.Expected learning outcomesThis case is designed to be useable in teaching three key knowledge disciplines:Decision‐making biases and heuristics in entrepreneurs and innovators. Technology diffusion of new technology. Managing market uncertainty.Supplementary materialsTeaching notes.

Product Modeling, Evaluation and Validation at the Detailed Design Stage

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Iorga ◽  
Alain Desrochers
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Product Modeling ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Product Variation ◽  
Process Methodology ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Short Time

The expansion of the markets corroborated with product customization and short time to launch the product have led to new levels of competition among product development companies. To be successful in the globalization of the markets and to enable the evaluation and validation of products, companies have to develop methodologies focused on lifecycle analysis and reduction of product variation to obtain both quality and robustness of products. Keywords: Modeling, Evaluation, Validation, Design ProcessThis paper proposes a new design process methodology that unifies theoretical results of modeling stage and empirical findings obtained from the validation stage. The evaluations and validations of engineering design are very important and they have a high influence on product performances and their functionality, as well on the customer perceptions.Given that most companies maintain the confidentiality of their product development processes and that the existing literature does not provide more detailed aspects of this field, the proposed methodology will represent a technical and logistical support intended for students or engineers involved in academic as well as industrial projects.A generic methodology will be refined based on a new approach that will take into consideration the specification types (quantitative or qualitative), the design objectives and the product types: new/improved, structural/esthetic. Hence the new generic methodology will be composed of specific product validation algorithms taking into account the above considerations. At the end of this paper, the improvements provided by the proposed methodology into the design process will be shown in the context of the engineering student capstone projects at the Université de Sherbrooke.

scholarly journals BHEL Smart Wall Blowing System: New Product Development in Manufacturing Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 025609092110056
Author(s):  
Abhishek Kumar ◽  
R. Dhanuskodi ◽  
R. Kaliappan ◽  
K. Nandakumar
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
New Product

scholarly journals DIMENSIONS OF KNOWLEDGE IN PROTOTYPING: A REVIEW AND CHARACTERISATION OF PROTOTYPING METHODS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO DESIGN KNOWLEDGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1303-1312
Author(s):  
Ricardo Real ◽  
Chris Snider ◽  
Mark Goudswaard ◽  
Ben Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Knowledge Contribution

AbstractWhilst prior works have characterised the affordances of prototyping methods in terms of generating knowledge about a product or process, the types, or ‘dimensions’ of knowledge towards which they contribute are not fully understood. In this paper we adapt the concept of ‘design domains’ as a method to interpret, and better understand the contributions of different prototyping methods to design knowledge in new product development. We first synthesise a set of ten dimensions for design knowledge from a review of literature in design-related fields. A study was then conducted in which participants from engineering backgrounds completed a Likert-type questionnaire to quantify the perceived contributions to design knowledge of 90 common prototyping methods against each dimension. We statistically analyse results to identify patterns in the knowledge contribution of different methods. Results reveal that methods exhibit significantly different contribution profiles, suggesting different methods to be suited to different knowledge. Thus, this paper indicates potential for new methods, methodology and processes to leverage such characterisations for better selection and sequencing of methods in the prototyping process.

Factors Influencing Innovation and Industrial Performance in Chinese Manufacturing Industry

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (06) ◽  
pp. 1750040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi ◽  
Girish Panchakshara Murthy ◽  
Chinenye Comfort Emodi ◽  
Adaeze Saratu Augusta Emodi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Patent Application ◽  
New Product ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Industrial Performance

This study investigates the factors influencing the Chinese manufacturing industry’s innovation and industrial performance utilizing a panel data approach on a sample of Chinese manufacturing enterprises over the period of 2008–2013. The industries were grouped according to related sectors into five groups, a general group was also created which included the whole data sample. The study found that research and development (R&D) expenditure positively influenced the growth of product innovation and industrial performance, but not necessarily knowledge innovation and export performance. Also, expenditure on new product development had a positive impact on both innovation and industrial performance. The growth of patent application was discovered to be influenced by an R&D project and foreign patent license. Finally, the number of enterprises and firm size (i.e. number of employees) contributed positively to the industrial output performance. The findings suggest that industrial R&D and new product development influences the success of product innovation and sales performance. The study recommends that the government should set up policies that will stimulate industrial R&D, while supporting technology transfers from foreign partners. Most importantly, government policies on the development of the industry should be addressed on a sectorial level and not a “one-size-fit-all” type of policy.

A framework for capturing and applying design knowledge in new product development

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Schmidt ◽  
Milton Borsato ◽  
Edmar Hinckel ◽  
Paulo Storrer ◽  
Eduardo Onofre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Design Knowledge

Modularization of Design Knowledge as a Basis for a High Quality Competence Pool in Product Development

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Berger ◽  
Herbert Birkhofer
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Flexibility ◽  
Teaching Learning

Contents of product development knowledge have to be available in a broad range and rank high in quality for teaching, learning and application. Individuality in presenting and high flexibility in use and arrangement are requested. Furthermore, the collaboration of different authors with different background is aimed to create a common competence pool in the range of product development. Therefore an approach to modularization, filing and accessing of various contents of product development knowledge will be applied. Contents of product development knowledge are modularized based on three levels — elements, modules and containers — and they are linked and integrated into the competence pool. Considering the requirements of different users, individual and specific documents can be created out of the modularized contents, e.g., material for a specific lecture. Appropriate modularization is considered as a basis for higher quality and improvement of communication and collaboration.

CAD Archives Based on OAIS

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Kopena ◽  
Joshua Shaffer ◽  
William C. Regli
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Ongoing Work

Within the past few years, there has been a steady, substantial growth of interest in “long-term” archiving of digital data. This problem is particularly acute in many branches of engineering design, where cycles of technological obsolescence in supporting tools happen much more rapidly than those of designed products. Capturing and preserving design knowledge through these cycles is a major challenge that has come to be recognized by many government, industry, and research organizations. The ability to do so has important operational, efficiency, and legal ramifications for the manufacturing industry and its customers. This paper describes this problem, presenting examples of both why it must be addressed and why it is a challenge. In particular it relates preservation of engineering data to digital archiving efforts in other domains as well as ongoing work within the engineering research community on design repositories. As is shown, long term archiving of digital design knowledge draws upon both but possesses its own unique issues. Much of this discussion is couched within the language of the ISO Open Archival Information Systems (OAIS) Reference Model, including a mapping from an existing significant design repository into the OAIS model. In this way, it is hoped that this paper will widen the discussion on digital archiving within the community of this conference as well as help connect to research in other areas.

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