Design process improvement : a review of current practice
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
1 online resource (xv, 560 pages) : illustrations
9781852337018, 9781846280610, 185233701X, 1846280613
613195198
The reality of design
Design issues
Models of designing
Design planning and modelling
Systems engineering
Requirements engineering
Human resources
Artificial intelligence for design process improvement
Complexity
Thinking and representing in design
Communication in design
Engineering change
Risk in the design process
Design for X
Engineering knowledge management
Quality management
Workflow for design
Integrated new product development
Product portfolio management
The transfer of methods into industry
Design research
Institute of Theoretical Psychology, University of Bamberg
Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre, University of Bath
Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge
A culture of design research and teaching, Carnegie Mellon University
Product Development and Machine Elements, Darmstadt University of Technology
School of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology
The Design Group, Technical University of Denmark
The Systems Realization Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology
Engineering Design Research, University of Grenoble
Institute of Machine Design and Automotive Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH)
Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University
Information Technologies in Mechanical Engineering, University of Magdeburg
Design Process Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Institute of Product Development, Technische Universität München
Engineering Design Centre, University of Newcastle
Center for Design Research, Stanford University
Integrated Product Development, the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
The CAD Centre, University of Strathclyde
BAE SYSTEMS/Rolls-Royce University Technology Partnership for Design
M.J. Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University
Technological Innovation Research Group, Politecnico di Torino
Intelligent Interactive Distributed Systems, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
The Center for Engineering Learning and Technology, University of Washington
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