How to Design Methods for Application - Empirical Insights From Industry

Guertler, Matthias R.

doi:10.21278/idc.2018.0169

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Additionally, problem-solving and/or design methods claimed to support creativity are available in the literature (e.g., [40][41][42][43][44][45]). Nonetheless, design methods are often considered difficult to learn by industrial practitioners [46][47][48], who usually prefer to follow classical "solution-based" or "trial-and-error" approaches. One of the main reasons behind this skepticism is the need to comprehensively understand the rationale underpinning the method.…”

Section: Creativity In Engineering Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging COVID-19 with Creativity: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Emergency Ventilators

2020

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The high concentration and rapid increase in lung diseases caused by COVID-19 has suddenly led medical staff to face a lack of ventilators in emergency situations. In this context, many enthusiasts and/or designers all over the world have started to think about low cost and open-source solutions for emergency ventilators, with the aim of providing concrete aid. In a small amount of time, many different solutions have been proposed, most of which are based on the automatic compression of the auxiliary manual breathing unit (AMBU) bag. In particular, many different designs have been conceived for the AMBU compression mechanism, which contains the most critical parts to be designed. Here arises the aim of this work, i.e., to propose a methodological approach to support the creativity of designers involved in inventing increasingly sustainable and reliable low-cost compression mechanisms for AMBU-based ventilators. Accordingly, a conceptual framework is proposed, capable of collecting existing ideas and organizing the underpinning concepts, to provide stimuli for new idea generation and to keep track of (and possibly to share) the explored design space. Illustrative examples are provided in order to show how the proposal can be used in practice. In particular, a set of currently available solutions is schematically shown through the proposed graphical tools, and the generation of new illustrative solutions is presented. Additionally, it is shown how to represent further ideas (e.g., those coming from other teams) in the framework.

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Section: Creativity In Engineering Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging COVID-19 with Creativity: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Emergency Ventilators

2020

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“…Exemplary requirements could be KPIs, which indicate the performance of the method and allow for controlling (e.g. number of generated ideas) (Guertler, 2018). Moreover, a common barrier is that the benefits are not realised immediately (López-Mesa and Bylund, 2011).…”

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“…Reliability has two components: "Internal reliability" (verification) focuses on the accuracy, consistency and robustness of method results. Hence, it ensures that an identical input and iterative application of a method lead to similar or identical results (Guertler, 2018). It also helps to prove method benefits, which is crucial for their acceptance in companies (Jagtap et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Existing publications tend to focus on a rather high-level perspective: for instance Braun (2005) analyses the type of methodological support SMEs need, while the "Design Research Methodology (DRM)" (Blessing and Chakrabarti, 2009) and other research methodologies focus rather on WHAT to do rather than HOW to develop a method. Some authors, such as Albers et al (2018) and Guertler (2018), address this issue but still on a very early stage. A key challenge of development support for design methods is the large variety of methods, method users and application contexts.…”

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Developing Design Methods - a Conceptual Requirement Framework

Becerril

Guertler

Longa

2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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Design methods can provide valuable support in structuring and solving complex product design problems. However, the application and the transfer of methods from academia to industry is limited. To date, research has tended to focus on solving this through improved method selection, method adaptation and training. The development of design methods itself has attracted surprisingly low attention. This paper closes this gap and adds a quite new perspective of systematic requirement management of method development. However, the variety of methods, method users and application contexts is a key challenge and does not allow for a universal set of requirements. Thus, this paper transfers the concept of solution-neutral requirements frameworks, which are established in product design, to method development. The framework is derived from analysing and structuring different requirements found in literature. Different requirement sub-/categories allow for accommodating the varying levels of detail of requirements. The framework works like a checklist and helps design researchers to consider the most important requirement categories, which subsequently can be detailed project-specifically.

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“…Eder (1998); Geis et al (2008); Tomiyama et al (2009)). Several hypothesis have been formulated by scholars about the reasons behind this lack, and also many insights have been collected to improve methods' diffusion (Guertler, 2018;Reiß et al, 2017) but the issue is still open. Nevertheless, design methods are largely diffused in academia to teach design therefore academic courses still represent one of the most promising channels for methods diffusion, because today's students are likely to become the designers of tomorrow.…”

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Teaching and Learning Design Methods: Facing the Related Issues with TRIZ

Fiorineschi¹,

Frillici²,

Rotini³

2019

Proc. Int. Conf. Eng. Des.

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Design methods are claimed to support designers but, although they are largely taught in academia, their industrial uptake is still lacking. Many reasons have been identified about this flaw and some potential suggestions have been proposed and discussed in literature to overcome the problem. However, a further evidence is that although many students learn such methods from years, they partially or totally abandon the learned methods in their professional careers. This could partially explain the gap between academic and industrial diffusion of design methods. Literature provides suggestions for improving the learning experience of students but different didactical contexts may need more tailored solutions. The work shown in this paper exploits the problem solving potentialities of the TRIZ toolset to provide hints for improving a course focused on teaching a systematic conceptual design method. A set of suggestions has been obtained together some guidelines for applying the considered TRIZ tools to other didactical contexts.

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How to Design Methods for Application - Empirical Insights From Industry

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Challenging COVID-19 with Creativity: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Emergency Ventilators

Challenging COVID-19 with Creativity: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Emergency Ventilators

Developing Design Methods - a Conceptual Requirement Framework

Teaching and Learning Design Methods: Facing the Related Issues with TRIZ

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