Guiding Role of Industry Design Concept in Fitness Equipment Product Design

Supply Chain Design in the Volatile Semiconductor Capital Equipment Industry

As companies outsource more manufacturing and design responsibilities to external vendors and therefore become less vertically integrated, the role of supply chain management becomes increasingly complex. Its role is particularly difficult when product generation follows a serial process flow, with the supply chain function residing at the end and where it inherits poorly defined supplier relat...

A new multi-product closed-loop supply chain network design in dairy industry

Nowadays, manufacturers need to satisfy consumer demands in order to compete in the real world. This requires the efficient operation of supply chain planning. On the other hand, increasing worldwide environmental, lack of food resources and social concerns are motivating manufacturers and consumers to implement recycling strategies such as product recovery, waste management, or usage of recycl...

Guiding Object-oriented Design Guiding Object-oriented Design

In this paper we show how software architectural styles can be used to guide object-oriented design. Design guidance is important as the initial phases of software design signiicantly impact software quality. We use two diierent architectural styles to guide the design process from a formal speciication to a design. Software architectural styles assist by providing a diierent level of reuse tha...

Product design for product/service systems: Design experiences from Swedish industry

Physical Space and Concretization of Ideas in Product Concept Design

A new product concept emerges in communication between participants in a design process. In order to succeed in a geographically distributed situation, a computer support system must be able to mediate this kind of communication in product concept design. We will elaborate on concept design, focusing on how designers communicate using artifacts and space to mediate their understandings. During ...