Design for Excellence: Engineering Design Conference 2000ISBN: 978-1-86058-259-2
Hardcover
844 pages
February 2005
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Design for Excellence contains papers from a conference
organised by Brunel University. This book will be useful
for designers, engineers, software developers, and other
technologists working in a wide variety of engineering
applications. Both those working in industry and in the academic
environment will want to have access to this valuble resource.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
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A strategic overview of UK product development
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Technology management – a methodology towards achieving design excellence within the pharmaceutical industry
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Designing safer systems – the application of human factors methods
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From environmental assessment results to DFE product changes – an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative methods
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Design determines 70 percent of cost? A review of
implications for design evaluation -
Using correlation chains to link customer requirements and physical laws
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How to manage ‘3-GEN’ products and services
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Strain based shallow shell finite element for
circular cylindrical shells -
Validation of manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceuticals industry
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The use of formal design techniques in the
development of a model device -
Aesthetic intelligence – optimizing user-centred design
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Tendering for engineering contracts
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An investigation on specifications – component, source information areas, and contents