Highlighting product issues during design phase using functional analysis

Multi-objective optimization approach for cost management during product design at the conceptual phase

The effective cost management during the conceptual design phase of a product is essential to develop a product with minimum cost and desired quality. The integration of the methodologies of quality function deployment (QFD), value engineering (VE) and target costing (TC) could be applied to the continuous improvement of any product during product development. To optimize customer satisfaction ...

Design Issues and Product Lifestyle Management: SAiNT

Design Rationale Capturing Model for Use during the Embodiment Phase of the Product Design

An analysis of a design rationale focusing on the embodiment design stage is presented through the characterization of information describing design problems, alternative solutions, arguments, explanations and decisions of designers. The characterization of the design questions resulted from empirical research. The findings have been used to describe in detail elements of a design rationale cap...

Issues in Product Life Cycle Engineering Analysis

Traditional engineering analysis of product designs has focused primarily on a product's operational performance without considering costs of manufacturing and other stages downstream from design. In contrast, life cycle analysis of a product during its initial development can play a crucial role in determining the product's overall life cycle cost and useful life span. This paper examines prod...

Persian Handwriting Analysis Using Functional Principal Components

Principal components analysis is a well-known statistical method in dealing with large dependent data sets. It is also used in functional data for both purposes of data reduction as well as variation representation. On the other hand "handwriting" is one of the objects, studied in various statistical fields like pattern recognition and shape analysis. Considering time as the argument,...