Acoustical Investigations in Virtual Environments for a Car Passing Application

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Husung ◽  
Antje Siegel ◽  
Christian Weber
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Visual Models ◽  
State Dependent ◽  
Simulation Results

Product development is dominated by reducing time and costs, which is often contradictory to the required high quality of product properties. Therefore, the demand for efficient tools, which support the product development process, is rising. Virtual Reality (VR) can be used as such a tool. The interactive presentation of simulation results using (extended) VR technologies is very helpful — especially if both the simulation tools and the VR presentation are multimodal. Due to the increasing importance of acoustics and the expectation of an improving presence in VR environments the sense of perception should be extended. For this a special audio-visual VR-system and audio-visual models are necessary. For the current investigations a spatial, interactive auralisation-system is used. The main focus of the paper lies on the state dependent reproduction of the acoustical behavior using a real-time capable, network-based sound-server. The developed methods are explained in the paper by an automotive example.

Improving the Quality of Information Flows in the Backend of a Product Development Process: a Case Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaring Boersma ◽  
Gabriel Loke ◽  
Valia T. Petkova ◽  
Peter C. Sander ◽  
Aarnout C. Brombacher
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Quality Of Information

scholarly journals Motivation to Innovate as a Key Factor in Innovation Development Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Anna Svirina ◽  
Ekaterina Polosukhina
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
New Product Development Process

AbstractResearch purpose. The purpose of this study is to analyse the influence of industrial enterprises’ employees’ motivation to innovate on the results of innovation process and the quality of innovative products market performance. The need for such an assessment was inspired by the lack of understanding the role of motivation to innovate in the quality and success of innovation development process.Design/Methodology/Approach. To achieve this goal, the authors conducted a survey distributed to the industrial enterprise employees. The study was based on the paper-and-pencil survey that was distributed to 250 people involved in innovation development process at Russian industrial enterprises; 150 questionnaires were received back and considered valid for the study. The results were evaluated by means of statistical analysis performed by means of SPSS Statistics software.Findings. The results support the intuitive proposition that motivation to innovate influences the quality of new product development process: idea generation, market study, product development, pre-commercial financial analysis and commercialisation quality are influenced by motivation to innovate – which is in line with the literature (Cooper, 2013). At the same time, probability on new product development in the company, the quality of initial screening, preliminary technical analysis, preliminary production analysis and in-house product testing do not correlate with employee motivation to innovate. Same is true for the new product performance: we observed no correlation between the motivation to innovate and the market success, whereas correlation was revealed between the innovative motivation and the level of market competition for the new product; however, the graphical analysis allowed to estimate that in case employees with high motivation to innovate are absent in the company, it is very unlikely that the new product would be successful.Originality/Value/Practical implications. The study was based on a questionnaire that was used for relevant purposes in different countries in order to make cross-country comparison on the innovation development process and the role of motivation to innovate. It allowed to indicate the specific features of organisational culture that are outlined in the Russian management literature: in majority of cases, bottom-level innovative initiatives were not supported by the management (Prigozhin, 2007), and hence, motivation to innovate cannot be revealed by employees at every stage of the new product development process. Another reason for somewhat controversial findings of this study was the difference between organisational cultures of the analysed manufacturing enterprises, which was not evaluated in this article.

scholarly journals A model for managing the product development process in house building

2002 ◽  
Vol 9 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 419-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
CARLOS T. FORMOSO ◽  
PATRICIA TZORTZOPOULOS ◽  
RENATA LIEDTKE
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
General Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
South Of Brazil ◽  
House Building

The performance of the product development process has a critical influence on the efficiency and duration of building projects, as well as on the quality of the final product. Despite its importance, relatively little attention has been given to the management of this process, if compared with production. The main objective of this paper is to present some results of a research project which aimed to devise a general model for managing the product development process in small sized companies involved in the development and construction of residential and commercial buildings. This model consists of a template for the product development process, which can be used by different companies as a basis to devise their own models for managing individual projects. The development of the model was based on case studies carried out in two companies from the south of Brazil and also on a benchmarking study.

scholarly journals Can compliance help marketing and business development?

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Avellanet
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Business Development ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Competitive Edge ◽  
Regulatory Affairs

In many FDA-regulated companies, the marketing and business development departments have a quietly antagonistic relationship with their quality and regulatory affairs colleagues. While compliance is supposed to ensure that a safe, efficacious and high-quality new product reaches the marketplace, marketing and business development executives are left to grumble: how are consumers – much less partners and investors – supposed to learn about and get excited about a new product if their work is so constricted? This paper suggests that there is a way to turn compliance from the millstone around Marketing's neck to the whetstone that helps hone a sharper competitive edge. HydroGel Burn Products tackled that question by shifting quality and regulatory affairs further upstream in their product development process to a point where to be overly restrictive was to stop development altogether; in other words, to a point where the focus had to be on finding a way around obstacles. The results pleased investors, partners, customers and marketers alike.

scholarly journals Approach for a Machine-Interpretable Provision of Standard Contents Using Welded Constructions as an Example

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2477-2486
Author(s):  
Thivakar Manoharan ◽  
André Loibl ◽  
Arun Nagarajah ◽  
Peter Köhler
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Digital Work ◽  
Restful Service ◽  
Cross System

AbstractIn order to meet the quality standards required in today's product development process, the designer must be able to draw on the knowledge contained in standards at all times. However, in today's digital work environment, these are usually only available in paper or PDF form. To support the designer during the product development process, a research project examine how knowledge from standards can be made available digitally and integrated into his working environment. This paper presents a concept with a RESTful service as a central knowledge base, which provides knowledge in the form of microservices. The implementation is carried out using welding assemblies as an example. To achieve the high-quality requirements and to implement them, the standard contents had to be prepared in a machine-interpretable and cross system way.

scholarly journals Improving Construction Process through Integration and Concurrent Engineering

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malik Khalfan ◽  
Naveed Raja
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Concurrent Engineering ◽  
Construction Projects ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Customer Involvement ◽  
Management Concepts

In an increasingly competitive business environment, improvedtime-to-market, reduced production cost, quality of the productand customer involvement are rapidly becoming the key successfactors for any product development process. Consequently, mostorganisations are moving towards the adoption of latest technologyand new management concepts and philosophies such as totalquality management and concurrent engineering (CE) to bringimprovement in their product development process. This paperdiscusses the adoption of integrated processes and CE withinthe construction industry to enable construction organisations toimprove their project development process. It also discusses aproposed integrated database model for the construction projects,which should enable the construction process to improve, becomemore effective and more efficient.

scholarly journals Design of Butter Spreader- An Application of Generic Product Development Process

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 6280-6284
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Product ◽  
Generic Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Lean Product Development ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Customer Dissatisfaction

In the current competitive scenario after globalization, product development process is a very challenging task as it depends on various factors from Customers says to Government policies. Today’s customer is technically smart and well aware about the quality of the product. Even just a word about customer dissatisfaction is sufficient to defame the brand image of the product in the market. To avoid such circumstances, it is essential to excercise scientific techniques of product development, so that manufacturers can concentrate on product quality, customer satisfaction, etc. To fulfill the requirements of the manufacturer regarding product development various approach to new product development like Lean product development, Spiral product development, agile product development have been developed by the researchers and the industrial experts. The Generic product development process is a very simple approach in the above-mentioned methodologies. This article discusses the development of butter spreader by using Generic product development process. However, in the initial phase the work is limited up to the overall design of the product.

Aktuelle Forschungsansätze für den Sondermaschinenbau*/Research on special purpose machinery - Scope and definition

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 851-856
Author(s):  
S. Pöschl ◽  
T. Helbig ◽  
H.-F. Jacobi ◽  
T. Prof. Bauernhansl
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Customer Demand ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Specific Research ◽  
Research Fields

Der Sondermaschinenbau ist in Deutschland ein beachtlicher Innovationsmotor. Er beeinflusst zudem die Produktindividualisierung – einen der maßgeblichen Trends im Maschinenbau. In der wissenschaftlichen Literatur werden die aktuellen Herausforderungen im Sondermaschinenbau nur an wenigen Stellen thematisiert. Eine Aufarbeitung dieses Forschungsgebiets ist insbesondere mit Blick auf das weltweite Kundenverlangen, in immer kürzeren Zeitabständen individualisierte, qualitativ hochwertige und kostengünstig hergestellte Produkte oder Systemlösungen bereitzustellen, dringend geboten. Nach einer Kategorisierung des Sondermaschinenbaus werden Forschungsfelder vorgestellt, in den Produktentstehungsprozess eingeordnet und anschließend drei Forschungsansätze veranschaulicht.   The industry of special purpose machinery is a significant driving force for innovation in Germany. Additionally, it has an impact on one of the key trends in engineering, the product individualization. In scientific literature current challenges in special machinery are rarely considered. A workup of the field is urgently required, in particular due to global customer demand. Customers demand a supply of individualized, high quality and inexpensive products or system solutions in continuously decreasing intervals. Following, a categorizing of special machinery and specific research fields are presented. Concluding, three research approaches are presented and classified in the product development process.

Quality of Information Flow in the Backend of a Product Development Process: a Case Study

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaring Boersma ◽  
Gabriel Loke ◽  
Valia T. Petkova ◽  
Peter C. Sander ◽  
Aarnout C. Brombacher
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Quality Of Information

Quality Improvement of the Product Development Process Using Performance Metrics

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy L. Johnson ◽  
Kevin J. Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Organizational Issues ◽  
Technological Growth ◽  
Short Time

Abstract As the international marketplace has opened up, companies are finding that both their competition and customer bases have expanded greatly. In addition, the rate of technological growth continues to accelerate, leaving many products out-dated in a relatively short time. Companies must meet both of these challenges in order to remain competitive. This requires an efficient product development process, one that is flexible and able to meet its customers’ diverse requirements in a timely manner. This paper examines product development and, in particular, looks at the use of metrics in evaluation, control, and improvement of the product development process. Specifically, it is shown how metrics can be used to evaluate the progress, performance, and quality of development activities. Issues involving data collection are described, and the paper concludes with a discussion of organizational issues and a case study.

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