Search Results - "Otto, Kevin N."

Relative impact of early versus late design decisions in systems development by Tan, James J. Y., Otto, Kevin N., Wood, Kristin L.

“…To better understand the impact of early versus late design decisions, a study was undertaken on the root causes of missed requirements in new product…”
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A Method for Architecting Product Platforms by Gonzalez-Zugasti, Javier P., Otto, Kevin N., Baker, John D.

“…Consider a group of products sharing common parts and assemblies. The products in question we call a product family, and the common elements, the platform. In…”
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Fundamental studies in Design-by-Analogy: A focus on domain-knowledge experts and applications to transactional design problems by Moreno, Diana P., Hernández, Alberto A., Yang, Maria C., Otto, Kevin N., Hölttä-Otto, Katja, Linsey, Julie S., Wood, Kristin L., Linden, Adriana

“…Design-by-Analogy (DbA) is recognized for its potential for fostering innovation. Previous work provides insights into how analogies assist in solving problems…”
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Design knowledge representation to support personalised additive manufacturing by Ko, Hyunwoong, Moon, Seung Ki, Otto, Kevin N.

“…This research aims to develop a set of new formal design representations that captures design requirements to improve the level of personalisation while taking…”
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Modular product architecture by Dahmus, Jeffrey B, Gonzalez-Zugasti, Javier P, Otto, Kevin N

“…This paper presents an approach to architecting a product family that shares inter-changeable modules. Rather than a fixed product platform upon which…”
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Reverse Engineering and Redesign: Courses to Incrementally and Systematically Teach Design by Wood, Kristin L., Jensen, Daniel, Bezdek, Joseph, Otto, Kevin N.

“…A variety of design‐process and design‐methods courses exist in engineering education. The primary objective of such courses is to teach engineering design…”
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A tether-less Legged Piezoelectric Miniature Robot using bounding gait locomotion for bidirectional motion by Hariri, Hassan H., Prasetya, Leonardus A., Shaohui Foong, Gim Song Soh, Otto, Kevin N., Wood, Kristin L.

“…This paper describes the design and evaluation of a Legged Piezoelectric Miniature Robot (LPMR) propelled by standing wave vibrations at the legs, which are…”
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Incorporating design effort complexity measures in product architectural design and assessment by Hölttä, Katja M.M., Otto, Kevin N.

“…A flexible product architecture enables easy future changes to the product. We introduce here a procedure to design products using existing modularity methods…”
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Product Evolution: A Reverse Engineering and Redesign Methodology by Otto, Kevin N., Wood, Kristin L.

“…New products drive business. To remain competitive, industry is continually searching for new methods to evolve their products. To address this need, we…”
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Assessing value in platformed product family design by Gonzalez-Zugasti, Javier P., Otto, Kevin N., Baker, John D.

“…A platform is the set of elements and interfaces that are common to a family of products. In this paper, the design of a platform-based product family is…”
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An empirical foundation for product flexibility by Palani Rajan, P.K., Van Wie, Michael, Campbell, Matthew I., Wood, Kristin L., Otto, Kevin N.

“…Product flexibility has gained recent attention in companies, which design products for rapidly changing technologies and which are under constant pressure to…”
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Trade-off strategies in engineering design by Otto, Kevin N., Antonsson, Erik K.

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Constructing membership functions using interpolation and measurement theory by Chen, Joseph E., Otto, Kevin N.

“…Imprecision is well suited for representing uncertainty in choice during an engineering design process, and in particular for computer-aided engineering design…”
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Measurement methods for product evaluation by Otto, Kevin N.

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Research on application of fuzzy sets to design and manufacturing integration by Otto, Kevin N., Noyce, Robert N.

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Design parameter selection in the presence of noise by Otto, Kevin N., Antonsson, Erik K.

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5.6.2 Decision Making in Modular Product Platform Development by Ofer, Christian M., Otto, Kevin N., Whitcomb, Clifford, Igenbergs, Eduard, Schulz, Armin P.

“…In order to achieve larger market share and address individual customer needs, firms are challenged to manage the seemingly contradictory existence of…”
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A formal representational theory for engineering design by Otto, Kevin N

“…In the design of engineered artifacts, it is hypothesized that computations must be performed. Informal specifications must be converted into formal functional…”
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Membership induced on manifolds by vector fields and flows by Otto, Kevin N., Lewis, Andrew D., Antonsson, Erik K.

“…In many engineering and scientific applications, the need arises to perform differential calculations on manifolds. If such calculations involve imprecise…”
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Designing the Design Course Sequence by Otto, Kevin N, Wood, Kristin L

“…To improve the modern design engineering curriculum, one must wrestle with at least five issues: 1 . People learn in the stages of a cycle. 2. Studies show…”
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