Crowd-Engineering: Managing Innovative Product Design by Widening Collaborations

Engineering Innovative Practice in Managing Design Projects

Most references to innovation relate to the development of new products. This paper does not address innovation in these terms, but as changes in practices an engineer creatively adopts during engineering design projects. The authors adopt Actor-Network Theory as a way to understand these change processes (translations). The authors design a perturbation index inspired in Earned Value managemen...

Managing Automotive Product Development

The new product development (NPD) is the process by which a new product idea is conceived, investigated, taken through the design process, manufactured, marketed and serviced. In Automotive Engineering these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of five phases: "Plan and Define Program", "Product Design and Development", "Process Design and...

Managing quality in Product Line Engineering

Study on Product Innovative Design Process Driven by Ideal Solution

Product innovative design in companies today relies heavily on individual members’ experience and creative ideation as well as their skills of integrating creativity and innovation tools with design methods agilely. Creative ideation and inventive ideas generation are two crucial stages in product innovative design process. Ideal solution is the desire final ideas for given problem, and the str...

Innovative Design Process and Information Technology for Electromechanical Product Development Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications Innovative Design Process and Information Technology for Electromechanical Product Development

The business segment of Japanese companies such as Toshiba changed drastically for the last several years. This means that companies should change their culture and need new product development process applying information technologies. This paper presents examples of design technologies that realize the innovative product development process in Toshiba focused on an electromechanical product d...