C reating an effective work environment and process is necessary for successful product
design and development. Literature and design managers explain their unique design …

Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …

In recent times, the development and manufacture of new products and the necessary tools
required to carry out such activities has resulted in vast amounts of knowledge and …

New product development (NPD) can be described as both complex and multidisciplinary,
and also as an activity that often requires significant amounts of design knowledge …

In today's competitive market, design firms are under pressure to enhance the speed of their
decision-making processes to foster innovative products. Due to specialized nature of …

This research aims to understand how knowledge is used in various design activities from a
human factors perspective, and develop a methodology that can be used to support …

The design literature offers two design process models as alternatives for acquiring and
using knowledge in design. The best established is the rational problem solving model …

It is widely recognized that the increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment
requires the exploration and integration of specialized knowledge from different domains in …

This paper presents an e-Design framework for knowledge management through its
application in an engineering design case study. The e-Design framework enables the …

The dependency between products and processes in today's high-tech domains is very
complex, and the resulting interrelations are difficult for the individual engineer to manage …