qfd is a mechanism for translating the voice of customer into product through various stages of product planning, engineering and manufacturing that widely implemented in modern enterprises throughout the world. in parallel with welcoming to qfd, a lot of academic efforts have gone into improving and completing this method. now traditional methods for determining relative importance of factors ...

List of abbreviations 4 Introduction 5 The history and development of the new guideline ICH Topic Q8 5 The contents and requirements according to the new guideline 9 Comparison of the current guideline ICH Q8 with the previous guideline 15 Comparison of both guidelines – a summary 28 The term Design Space-Integration into ICH Q8, Q9 and Q10 29 Requirements of the new guideline for the innovatin...

This paper reports the first offering of a graduate level subject covering the conceptual phase of aircraft product development. The output of the conceptual phase is a system level specification that usually serves as the input for a traditional undergraduate capstone subject on aircraft design. Of critical importance in the conceptual phase is addressing the business case for the candidate pr...

In this paper, an empirical study aiming at exploring the practical applicability of a computer support for systematic design methodology is presented. During a six-month project, a cross-functional product development team in the automotive industry was studied using an action-based research approach. The team applied a systematic design methodology and used a computer tool that provides suppo...

In this paper we present our work on requirements elicitation. The elicitation process is a complex task which necessitates computer support. Elicitation systems should ideally help their users check the correctness of the specifications obtained but also actively guide them in the acquisition of the requirements. We consider hereafter systems that communicate in natural language. We describe a...

Requirements Engineering provides an important basis for estimating time and effort in software development projects. Software requirements give a significant measure of product size to be developed. The University of Informatics Sciences (UCI) has an estimation method, which, in order to gain accuracy, incorporates a second estimate after the requirements phase to have more detailed technical ...

Today many enterprises are forced to produce products which fulfill individual customer requirements. This situation results in an exploding number of variant parts of a product again resulting in a huge number of product data. To meet these new requirements, many enterprises introduced powerful CIM systems. Normally, this leaded to heterogeneous EDP concepts which are characterized by autonomo...