The fourth industrial revolution is shaping a new industrial landscape. A variety of
technologies related to software, information and communication technologies embody a …

In practice, product developers often do not select the most suitable design process or
method for their task; instead, they use the most common or known ones. The reason for this …

Increasingly complex products and processes, tougher international competition and
increasing customer requirements are some of the trends leading to the current …

Many of the methods and tools proposed in the literature for validating product concepts are
matrix-based, but they do not allow the results to be communicated easily and …

Since the 2000s, 3D modeling and product lifecycle management (PLM) have profoundly
changed the way systems and manufactured products are designed, industrialized and …

Various methods—as systematic procedures for achieving results—and tools—as technical
or mental aids for achieving results—(for simplicity, referred to as techniques in the …

Klein-und mittelständische Unternehmen (KMU) sehen immer mehr den Herausforderungen
und Chancen einer nachhaltigen Produktentwicklung entgegen, da die Entwicklung und …

Dans un contexte général de transition vers l'ère du numérique et de la connectivité
ubiquitaire, ces travaux visent à proposer une démarche pour accompagner les entreprises …

Smart medical technologies arise from the collaboration of multiple engineering disciplines,
resulting in increased technical and organizational complexity. Compounded by the intrinsic …

Situational method engineering (SME) is an engineering process used to construct context-
specific software development methods. The advantage of SMEs is to allow software …