Publisher's Synopsis
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:
- A strategic overview of UK product development
- Technology management - a methodology towards achieving design excellence within the pharmaceutical industry
- Designing safer systems - the application of human factors methods
- From environmental assessment results to DFE product changes - an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative methods
- Design determines 70 percent of cost? A review of
implications for design evaluation - Using correlation chains to link customer requirements and physical laws
- How to manage '3-GEN' products and services
- Strain based shallow shell finite element for circular cylindrical shells
- Validation of manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceuticals industry
- The use of formal design techniques in the development of a model device
- Aesthetic intelligence - optimizing user-centred design
- Tendering for engineering contracts
- An investigation on specifications - component, source information areas, and contents
