Design Process Improvement: A review of current practice

Clarkson, John [Editor]; Eckert, Claudia [Editor];

ISBN 10: 185233701X / ISBN 13: 9781852337018

Editore: Springer, 2005

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• Titolo: Design Process Improvement: A review of current practice
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 185233701X
• ISBN 13: 9781852337018
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 42 once

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vi The process is important! I learned this lesson the hard way during my previous existence working as a design engineer with PA Consulting Group's Cambridge Technology Centre. One of my earliest assignments involved the development of a piece of labo- tory automation equipment for a major European pharmaceutical manufacturer.Two things stick in my mind from those early days first, that the equipment was always to be ready for delivery in three weeks and,second,that being able to write well structured Pascal was not sufficient to deliver reliable software performance. Delivery was ultimately six months late,the project ran some sixty percent over budget and I gained my first promotion to Senior Engineer. At the time it puzzled me that I had been unable to predict the John Clarkson real effort required to complete the automation project I had Reader in Engineering Design, genuinely believed that the project would be finished in three Director, Cambridge Engineering weeks.It was some years later that I discovered Kenneth Cooper's Design Centre papers describing the Rework Cycle and realised that I had been the victim of undiscovered rework .I quickly learned that project plans were not just inaccurate,as most project managers would attest,but often grossly misleading,bearing little resemblance to actual development practice.

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Part I: Review of Current Practice Models of Design Models of Designing Design Planning and Modelling Systems Engineering Perspectives on Design Requirements Engineering Human Resources Artificial Intelligence for Design Process Improvement Complexity Thinking and Representing in Design Design Practice Communication in Design Engineering Change Risk in the Design Process Design for X Design Management Engineering Knowledge Management Quality Management Workflow for Design Integrated New Product Development Product Portfolio Management The Transfer of Methods into Industry Part II: Design Centres University of Bamberg University of Bath University of Cambridge Carnegie Mellon University Darmstadt University of Technology Delft University of Technology Technical University of Denmark Georgia Institute of Technology University of Grenoble University of Karlsruhe Loughborough University University of Magdeburg Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technische Universität München University of Newcastle Stanford University Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University of Strathclyde University Technology Partnership, Cambridge Texas Christian University Politecnico di Torino Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam University of Washington