Background Human-centered design (HCD) approaches to health care strive to support the
development of innovative, effective, and person-centered solutions for health care …

Perceived quality is one of the most critical aspects of product development that defines the
successful design. This paper presents a new approach to perceived quality assessment by …

This chapter commences by introducing the background to the development of the Function-
Behaviour-Structure (FBS) ontology. It then proceeds with an elaboration of the FBS …

Voice of Customer is the important for product development. Product development is a
complex task in which a great deal of human physical resources, methods, and tools are …

Background: This research aims to identify how blockchain technology could support the
ecological embeddedness of the coffee supply chain. Ecological embeddedness is a subset …

To succeed in the product development market today, firms must quickly and accurately
satisfy customer needs while designing products that adequately accomplish their desired …

The challenge of realigning the present path of development on a sustainable trajectory
concerns all sectors of society, including engineering. To move towards a sustainable …

This paper discusses the validation of design methods. The challenges and opportunities in
validation are illustrated by drawing an analogy to medical research and development …

This paper presents the first ever framework for implementing Product Lifecycle
Management within high value Engineering to Order programmes. When implementing …

A modular design strategy both enables, but also demands, parallelism in design activities
and collaboration between a diversity of disciplines in companies, which often involves …