Voice of Customer is important for new product development. New product development is a complex task in which a great deal of human physical resources, methods, and tools are involved. One of the wellappreciated models is Kano model for customer needs study for product development. Customer requirements are an important component of new product development. The customer expectations to the tec...

Original scientific paper CNC machine tool is a symbol of advanced manufacturing technology. The introduction of modular design into the design processes of CNC machine tool has important theoretical and practical value. Combining modular design with case-based reasoning (CBR), this paper puts forward one method of module configuration design. The key technologies including the transformation o...

The modern U.S. “market” for weapons and weapon systems has two dominating features. First, it is characterized by a single buyer, DoD, which defines the product and controls the sales opportunities of weapon system providers.2 Unlike most commercial product markets, the weapons market is centralized, historically driven by the detailed performance and technical requirements provided by DoD.3 E...

Climate change calls for action from all sectors of our global economy, including ICT. Therefore, it is important to the way we develop software address challenges posed by sustainability. Our goal contribute with a reusable sustainability requirements catalogue that helps developers be aware sustainability-related properties worth considering during development. The information this was gather...

In the mobile industry, system platforms are offered to device developers to enable rapid product development while sharing expensive technology development investments. This paper presents a framework for assessment of requirements engineering collaboration related to statements-of-compliance negotiation in platform subcontracting. The framework includes a classification of platform compliance...

Product line scoping is an important activity in reengineering-based software product line adoption. Both business issues and technical concerns have to be handled adequately. However, involving stakeholders representing these different concerns is not straightforward. Agile methods strongly emphasize stakeholder involvement and customer collaboration. In this paper we propose a collaborative a...

Telepresence resources are available for at least two decades, but its use is still very low. The main reason is that current systems, to save on telecommunication costs, imposes restrictions on quality that precludes the transmission of minute details, very important for the transmission the subjective contents of the material. This paper proposes minimum standards of quality to overcome this ...

The sector of construction equipment is currently in change. The scarcity of fossil resources and raw materials as well as rising energy costs in the last years and new political and technical requirements has brought the industry to a massive rethinking. A reduction of energy consumption is one of the most important innovation topics in this industry branch. In order to fulfill high energy req...