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Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Unterstützung des Methodentransfers durch eine visuelle Methoden- und ProzessbeschreibungPublicationtype: Doctoral Thesis63 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Planting the seeds of future mechanical design engineers - Learning skills(The Design Society, Institution of Engineering Designers, 2017-09); ; The learning process of students in mechanical engineering is accompanied with various challenges. A gap in students’ fundamental learning abilities, such as learning competences and self-organisation skills is revealed. These fundamental lacks impact the students’ performance in engineering design lectures as well. One example is that students have difficulties in searching for and extracting useful knowledge for design tasks on their own from literature. This paper introduces and evaluates a model consisting of three pillars, each of them representing processes performed to contribute to the development of students’ fundamental learning skills. The first pillar, being a kick-off, is a study group connection platform during which students have the opportunity to find adequate study partners and form study groups. Individuals and groups can then participate in subsequent offers. The second pillar refers to learning tutorials during which students have the possibility to learn and try out learning strategies. Reflection about the personal learning behaviour is a core element of these learning tutorials. These should ultimately help students develop and deepen their learning capabilities to be able to cope with any exam and organise themselves efficiently. The third pillar serves the purpose of linking the general learning strategies to specific subjects to be studied, such as engineering design courses. The fundamental learning abilities are not only considered to be essential for successful studies, but also regarded as beneficial for professional life. Recommendations for future engineering design education will be outlined.Publicationtype: Conference Paper74 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Continuing education and personalization of design methods to improve their acceptance in practice : an explorative studyOne possibility to establish and foster efficient method transfer from academia to industry is via the heads of professional designers and design students. The transfer and use of design methods in a sustainable way is related to the methods' acceptance by the user which is accompanied by many challenges. Educational concepts and design method adaptions have been chosen as decisive control parameters among many others in order to understand and evaluate how these can influence the acceptance of design methods in industry. An interview study to gain an understanding of the rationale of educational needs of engineers has been conducted to enrich existing literature in this area. The evaluation of feedback from academia-industry cooperation revealed specific challenges accompanied with educational concepts for modularization design methods. Based on these findings, an adaption was developed and an experiment study was conducted with students as future designers to decode variable factors in design training, gain qualitative feedback to a specific adaption and gain an understanding for the conditions and limitations of an experimental study. Joint conclusion reveals the need for improved education in method transfer and adaptions of the design methods to user-specific needs and paved the way for a series of experiments with various treatments of study participants regarding different personalized adaptions in design methods.Publicationtype: Journal ArticleScopus© Citations 10 410 447 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , ModSupport Project - Methodical development of an innovative modular construction kit for elevator systemsMany small and medium size enterprises (SME) successfully offer high product variety as a strategy to compete against bigger companies. The trend of globalisation with more emerging companies on the market fosters this further. This strategy often leads to an increased internal variety of components and processes with higher complexity costs, which finally outweigh the intended profits. Lutz Elevators solved this problem by new module kit elevators and a corresponding configure-to-order process. Development and implementation of the modular product structures and processes were undertaken in the joint research project ModSupport with the Institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design at the Hamburg University of Technology. This paper gives a conclusion on the project case.Publicationtype: Conference Paper172 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Sustainability of modular product families(2015-07); ; ; A global customer base demanding highly individual products often forces companies to offer a wide range of products. Commonality within modular product families allows great product variety through lower internal variety of components and processes. Companies then struggle with sustainability of modular product families, that is, managing commonality across the product family lifecycle when modular product families are changed to react to new customer demands. Based on a literature review, the current support from academia for handling the sustainability of modular product families is presented. The findings are consolidated into a conceptual schema. The subsequent successful use of the conceptual schema in the process planning of a medium-sized enterprise, developing and producing elevators, identified further factors that influence the sustainability of modular product families. These factors will be addressed in the future, with support from academia.Publicationtype: Conference Paper28 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Process visualisation of product family development methodsDevelopment methods for modular product families have shown their usefulness in case studies, but are only seldom applied in practice. To support the active transfer of methods from research into practice an understanding of the working principles of methods is needed. In this contribution, a newly developed process visualisation approach is presented that allows design researchers to visualise and analyse existing methods to create this understanding. A special emphasis of the visualisation task is set to the analysis of interfaces that are used to include information and knowledge from different company stakeholders into method based development processes and back into the business. A visualisation nomination is presented that gives an easy and intuitive way of understanding this interaction. The approach is exemplary applied to the method "Integrated PKT-Approach for the Development of Modular Product Families". Finally an outlook on the possible use of the presented visualisation approach to foster methods transfer to practice is given. © 2013 The Design Society, unless otherwise stated.Publicationtype: Conference Paper37 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Product family models and knowledge transfer support for the development of modular product families(2012-01-01); ; Developing modular product families meeting market demands and optimized to company processes requires extensive knowledge from many departments that needs to be communicated using product representations. In this paper, findings from applications of a product family development method are presented and possibilities for improvements through advanced product family models and methodical knowledge transfer support are identified.Publicationtype: Conference Paper18 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Machine part exhibition and functional mock-ups to enrich design educationMechanical engineering design education aims to provide students with the required knowledge and skills to develop state of the art products. Practical hands-on experience supports theoretical teaching of the basics. This paper presents a new approach to integrate hands-on elements into the design education curriculum, while being constrained by large class sizes. Therefore, the need for improvements in design education is analysed and the concept of an interactive machine part exhibition is derived from pre-existing methods. The exhibition is the corner stone of the concept and contains physical models of basic machine parts as well as sophisticated mechanical systems. It is used to create a link between lectures (theory) and real objects (practice). Functional mock-ups specially prepared to teach students design are used to improve an existing first year design and drawing project.Publicationtype: Conference Paper27 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Modulare Strukturen methodisch in Unternehmen umsetzen - Entwicklung von Standardumfängen und Integration von Erfahrungswissen [Methodically implementing modular structures in the company : development of standard scopes and integration of practical knowledge]The integrated PKT-approach for developing modular product families aims at the methodical development of maximum external product variety using the lowest possible internal process and component variety. This contribution proposes two approaches how to establish modular structures derived by using the PKT-approach within a company in order to capitalize from the benefits modular structures offer. The first approach deals with the methodical development of standardized hardware for use throughout the corporate product program in order to gain lot size effects. How to make use of the expected benefits of modular structures in all product life phases by using knowledge management tools is topic of the second proposed approach.Publicationtype: Conference Paper21 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: without files , Development of functional mock-ups for engineering design educationHands-on interaction with machinery is a possibility to enhance engineering design education. Based on the existing approach of an interactive machine part exhibition [1], a concept has been created to improve a first year drawing course by the use of functional mock-ups. These mock-ups are didactically prepared to teach students typical machine element setups. The machine part exhibition and mock-ups are used to create a framework that integrates hands-on education with the traditional teaching approaches. A preview of the currently performed evaluation by integrating the new concept into the design teaching is given.Publicationtype: Conference Paper27