Design for Excellence: Engineering Design Conference 2000

Design for Excellence contains papers from a conference organised by Brunel University. This book will be useful for designers, engineers, software developers, and other technologists working in a wide variety of engineering applications. Both those working in industry and in the academic environment will want to have access to this valuble resource.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:A strategic overview of UK product developmentTechnology management – a methodology towards achieving design excellence within the pharmaceutical industryDesigning safer systems – the application of human factors methodsFrom environmental assessment results to DFE product changes – an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative methodsDesign determines 70 percent of cost? A review of
implications for design evaluationUsing correlation chains to link customer requirements and physical lawsHow to manage ‘3–GEN’ products and servicesStrain based shallow shell finite element for
circular cylindrical shellsValidation of manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceuticals industryThe use of formal design techniques in the
development of a model deviceAesthetic intelligence – optimizing user–centred designTendering for engineering contractsAn investigation on specifications – component, source information areas, and contents