scholarly journals HardOps: Utilising the software development toolchain for hardware design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Stirling ◽  
Kaspar Bumke ◽  
Joel Collins ◽  
Vimal Dhokia ◽  
Richard Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Version Control ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Software Designers ◽  
Hardware Development ◽  
Open Source Hardware ◽  
Design And Manufacture

<div>Preprint of journal article.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract</b>:</div><div>Collaborative design of physical products between remote partners poses unique challenges. This is due to both the complex and interconnected data required for product design and manufacture, and to the centralised computing infrastructure traditionally used to manage product lifecycle data. While modern cloud based solutions to collaborative design are gaining popularity, they diminish the control of each design partner. In contrast, software designers readily collaborate on highly complex software, while retaining direct control of the files they are editing due to the dominance of distributed version control. This version control can be coupled with ``Developer Operations'' or DevOps tools to automate critical processes and facilitate communication. In this paper we explore how DevOps workflows can be adapted to the development of hardware. We include concrete examples of how this can be implemented in practice from a case study of the OpenFlexure Microscope project. While much ground remains to be broken in this field, we believe DevOps for hardware can support a new paradigm of distributed hardware development, with enormous benefits for both commercial and open-source hardware.<br></div>

scholarly journals HardOps: Utilising the software development toolchain for hardware design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Stirling ◽  
Kaspar Bumke ◽  
Joel Collins ◽  
Vimal Dhokia ◽  
Richard Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
Version Control ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Software Designers ◽  
Hardware Development ◽  
Open Source Hardware ◽  
Design And Manufacture

<div>Preprint of journal article.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract</b>:</div><div>Collaborative design of physical products between remote partners poses unique challenges. This is due to both the complex and interconnected data required for product design and manufacture, and to the centralised computing infrastructure traditionally used to manage product lifecycle data. While modern cloud based solutions to collaborative design are gaining popularity, they diminish the control of each design partner. In contrast, software designers readily collaborate on highly complex software, while retaining direct control of the files they are editing due to the dominance of distributed version control. This version control can be coupled with ``Developer Operations'' or DevOps tools to automate critical processes and facilitate communication. In this paper we explore how DevOps workflows can be adapted to the development of hardware. We include concrete examples of how this can be implemented in practice from a case study of the OpenFlexure Microscope project. While much ground remains to be broken in this field, we believe DevOps for hardware can support a new paradigm of distributed hardware development, with enormous benefits for both commercial and open-source hardware.<br></div>

Causing a Stir

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilo POTOCNJAK-OXMAN
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Design Team ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Early Stages

Stir was a crowd-voted grants platform aimed at supporting creative youth in the early stages of an entrepreneurial journey. Developed through an in-depth, collaborative design process, between 2015 and 2018 it received close to two hundred projects and distributed over fifty grants to emerging creatives and became one of the most impactful programs aimed at increasing entrepreneurial activity in Canberra, Australia. The following case study will provide an overview of the methodology and process used by the design team in conceiving and developing this platform, highlighting how the community’s interests and competencies were embedded in the project itself. The case provides insights for people leading collaborative design processes, with specific emphasis on some of the characteristics on programs targeting creative youth

A Systematic Function Recommendation Process for Data-Driven Product and Service Design

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhinan Zhang ◽  
Ling Liu ◽  
Wei Wei ◽  
Fei Tao ◽  
Tianmeng Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Sound Design ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Product Service ◽  
Target User

This paper presents a systematic function recommendation process (FRP) to recommend new functions to an existing product and service. Function plays a vital role in mapping user needs to design parameters (DPs) under constraints. It is imperative for manufacturers to continuously equip an existing product/service with exciting new functions. Traditionally, functions are mostly formulated by experienced designers and senior managers based on their subjective experience, knowledge, creativity, and even heuristics. Nevertheless, against the sweeping trend of information explosion, it is increasingly inefficient and unproductive for designers to manually formulate functions. In e-commerce, recommendation systems (RS) are ubiquitously used to recommend new products to users. In this study, the practically viable recommendation approaches are integrated with the theoretically sound design methodologies to serve a new paradigm of recommending new functions to an existing product/service. The aim is to address the problem of how to estimate an unknown rating that a target user would give to a candidate function that is not carried by the target product/service yet. A systematic function → product recommendation process is prescribed, followed by a detailed case study. It is indicated that practically meaningful functional recommendations (FRs) can indeed by generated through the proposed FRP.

scholarly journals An Ergonomic Customized-Tool Handle Design for Precision Tools using Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 1200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso González ◽  
David Salgado ◽  
Lorenzo García Moruno ◽  
Alonso Sánchez Ríos
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Efficient Method ◽  
Potential Application ◽  
Parametric Design ◽  
Parametric Model ◽  
Hand Size ◽  
Custom Design ◽  
Laparoscopic Grasper ◽  
Design And Manufacture

A study was carried out with 135 surgeons to obtain a surgical laparoscopic grasper handle design that adapts to the size of each surgeon’s hand, in a functionally appropriate way, and has the sufficient ergonomics to avoid generating the problems detected nowadays. The main conclusion of the work is the practical 3D parametric design obtained for a laparoscopic surgical graspers handle that is scalable to fit each particular surgeon's hand size. In addition, it has been possible to determine that the anthropometric measure of the surgeon's hand defined as Palm Length Measured (PLM) allows the design of the 3D parametric model of the surgical handle to be conveniently scaled. The results show that both additive manufacturing and the application of ergonomics criterion provide an efficient method for the custom design and manufacture of this type of specialised tool, with potential application in other sectors.

The potential role of relatives in designing person-centred assistive technologies (innovative practice)

Dementia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 3161-3164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudi Coetzer
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Visual Spatial ◽  
Innovative Practice ◽  
The Impact

The paper explores the important role of relatives in designing assistive technologies in collaboration with practitioners. A brief case study reports the collaborative design of a 24-hour clock to reduce the impact of visual–spatial impairment on a family member's ability to read time and prevent temporal disorientation.

scholarly journals Collaborative Design and Manufacture: Information Structures for Team Formation and Coordination

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Iain Duncan Stalker ◽  
Nikolai Kazantsev
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Team Formation ◽  
Information Structures ◽  
Tree Traversal ◽  
Structure Tree ◽  
Tree Data ◽  
Tree Data Structure ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
Design And Manufacture ◽  
Manufacturing Environments

AbstractOur interest here lies in supporting important, but routine and time-consuming activities that underpin success in highly distributed, collaborative design and manufacturing environments; and how information structuring can facilitate this. To that end, we present a simple, yet powerful approach to team formation, partner selection, scheduling and communication that employs a different approach to the task of matching candidates to opportunities or partners to requirements (matchmaking): traditionally, this is approached using either an idea of ‘nearness’ or ‘best fit’ (metric-based paradigms); or by finding a subtree within a tree (data structure) (tree traversal). Instead, we prefer concept lattices to establish notions of ‘inclusion’ or ‘membership’: essentially, a topological paradigm. While our approach is substantive, it can be used alongside traditional approaches and in this way one could harness the strengths of multiple paradigms.

scholarly journals Integration of library services in the context of building university information environment. (Case study of Prioksky State University)

2016 ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Olga Borisova ◽  
Natalya Styopina
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
State University ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The University

The service-oriented approach of the university academic library is highlighted: The social institution of services is to increase quality of living, to be a tool of socializing and adaptation. The authors conclude that in the context of the education new paradigm the services make the focus of Prioksky State University Library to foster efficient library operation and coordination within the university divisions.

scholarly journals Paradigm Shift of New Building in Old Urban Districts: Case Study of Bangkok Chinatown Workshop

2021 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 05059
Author(s):  
Xian Li ◽  
Eakachat Joneurairatana ◽  
Veerawat Sirivesmas
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
New Era ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Combination Mode ◽  
The City ◽  
New Buildings

Architects and designers realize that new buildings cannot completely replace old buildings in the process of urbanization in the world. To establish a method of the new building and the old building coexist and to create the new paradigm of the new building construction in the old district is the responsibility faced by the contemporary architects. This paper first analyzes the old building renovation projects in Berlin and Paris in the 1980s and puts forward the symbiotic relationship between the old and the new buildings in the new era, thus obtaining the research objectives, trying to redefine new buildings and old districts, and creating the new paradigm of contemporary building construction in old districts. Using workshop as an exploration method, this paper conducts data research and sampling analyses on the Chinatown area in Bangkok, and explores the combination mode and paradigm transformation of new buildings and old districts in the city, aiming to seek solutions utilizing art exploration.

Rethinking the Role of Islam in Malaysian Politics: A Case Study of Parti Amanah Negara

ICR Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-472
Author(s):  
Maszlee Malik
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Islamic Political Thought ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Malaysian Politics ◽  
Different Levels

In 2015, a group of sidelined and outcast progressive leaders and other activists from Parti Islam SeMalaysia (the Islamic Party of Malaysia, also known as PAS) decided to leave that organisation and form Parti Amanah Negara (AMANAH). The establishment of this new party was linked to efforts at saving the moderate form of Islamic political thought once embraced by PAS; the founders of AMANAH claimed that the new PAS leadership, elected during the 2015 Muktamar (Annual General Assembly), were too conservative and threatened the continuation of this moderate heritage. According to its founders, AMANAH has therefore been established to bring Islamic political activism into a new paradigm, with the hope of shaping a future Islamic discourse in Malaysia that is more inclusive, moderate, democratic and progressive. This article is an attempt to understand the party’s ideology, supposedly a new discourse in political Islam, and evaluate the level of adherence it enjoys amongst AMANAH members. This is done through a qualitative study conducted with 100 party members from different levels.

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