Adaptable design is a new design paradigm to create designs and products that can be easily changed to satisfy different requirements. Adaptable design aims at identifying the designs and products considering functionality, manufacturing efforts, customization, and environment friendliness. This research focuses on adaptable design considering product adaptability. In this work, product adaptab...

In manufacturing the interaction between the design of a product and the process to manufacture this product is studied in detail. Consider for example Material Requirements Planning (MRP), which is mainly driven by the Bill-Of-Material (BOM). For information-intensive products such as insurance, loans, permits, and many other services, the relationship with the supporting workjlow process is o...

There is little in-depth research that can assist designers to use culture as a catalyst for designing innovative product within Botswana’s context. This is supported by evidence from the literature which indicate that from an African perspective, there is no solid theoretical framework which can assist designers to consciously integrate users’ culture in designing products. This challenges des...

this paper presents an overview of new approaches in rapid product development in production networks from design points of view. the manufacturing industries are changing their focus to global sourcing as a means to improve performance and enhance competitiveness. some partnerships created with this strategy improve product development through collaborative design. with the advent of e-commerc...

Currently used decision support systems allow decision-makers to evaluate the product performance, including a net present value analysis, in order enable them make regarding whether or not carry out new development project. However, these solutions are inadequate provide simulations for verifying possibility of reducing total cost through changes design phase. The proposed approach provides fr...

This study examines sustainable tourism products in destinations. Based on concepts of product design, our proposes a framework for by adapting an existing Design Sustainability Framework to consider and analyze the characteristics themes (tourism) as well their impact scope. Using pragmatic qualitative approach, 15 semi-structured interviews with destination managers from German-speaking Alpin...

Market homogenization leads to fierce competition in the tea market. In recent years, with rise of “green health” and deep-rooted concept “innovation”. Tea packaging design innovation has become a hot spot for research industry. The continuous upgrading market demand shown vigorous vitality energy. study aims examine on influence Chinese product purchasing decisions analyze its importance influ...

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