Ben Hicks

TL;DR: A characterisation of the Digital Twin is provided, identification of gaps in knowledge, and required areas of future research are identified: Perceived Benefits; Digital Twin across the Product Life-Cycle; Use-Cases; Technical Implementations; Levels of Fidelity; Data Ownership; and Integration between Virtual Entities; each of which are required to realise the Digital twin.

TL;DR: This paper discusses the application of lean thinking to information management; where information management can be considered to involve adding value to information by virtue of how it is organised, visualised and represented and enabling information to flow to the end-user through the processes of exchange, sharing and collaboration.

TL;DR: The approach of this work is to consider the intended reuse and level of application for knowledge in order to determine the requirements for its acquisition, and an overall framework for the requirements of capturing, storing and reusing information and knowledge in engineering design is generated.

TL;DR: An overview of the research method is presented and the process of eliciting and filtering the issues are described and a set of core issues are developed that characterises the range of issues currently facing engineering SMEs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a procedure for visually decomposing designs into constituent aesthetic features is proposed to investigate the influence of aesthetic features and brand recognition of vehicles, and a consumer survey is undertaken to establish the significance and potency of individual aesthetic features.