Designers
Subtitle: The Key to Successful Product Development
By: edited by Eckart Frankenberger, Herbert Birkhofer, Petra Badke-Schaub
Contributors: Birkhofer, Herbert; Badke-Schaub, Petra
Publisher: Springer London
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781447112709; 9781447112686
Subjects: Engineering; Engineering design; System safety
Description: Modern product development means problem solving by teams in complex working environments. Thereby, the design process is influenced by factors from various fields, the task, the individual, the team, and the organisational context. This complex network of influences turns product development into a challenge with requirements for the designers aside from technical problems. This book contains the proceedings of the international symposium Designers - The Key to Successful Product Development held in Darmstadt, Germany, December 1997. During this meeting exponents from different leading research groups in engineering design came together to present and discuss their results. Within this volume different aims, issues and methods of design research are addressed in 23 contributions by different research groups. Structured in six sections according to the main fields of influence, it provides a survey of the state of scientifically-based knowledge and the trends of engineering design research on the influences leading to successful product development.
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