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Engineering design: A systematic approach

Gerhard Pahl, +1 more
- Vol. 89, pp 47350
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The article was published on 1988-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4041 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Engineering design process & C-K theory.

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‘Signposting’, A Parameter-driven Task-based Model of the Design Process

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Product variety optimization under modular architecture

TL;DR: In this paper, product variety design is discussed under an optimization viewpoint, and two typical optimization examples are demonstrated through aircraft design for simultaneous optimal attribute assignment and through design of television receiver circuits for optimal module combination.
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Integration of environmental aspects in product development: a stepwise procedure based on quantitative life cycle assessment

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a professional method intended for managers based on quantitative life cycle assessment to identify environmental ‘hot spots’ in a reference product's life cycle and to select new environmentally optimized solutions for a new product.
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A treatise on order in engineering design research

TL;DR: A framework of reasoning was constructed, including source, channel, and sink categories of knowledge and research of engineering design, respectively, which enables a grounded argumentation about the order ofengineering design research, as well as about the articulation of the engineering design knowledge.
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Refined metrics for measuring ideation effectiveness

TL;DR: Flaws in the variety metric are described and a new metric is proposed to evaluate the quality of design space exploration during concept generation, enabling application of a single metric to compare idea generation processes and methodologies.