Design for Excellence

<i>Design for Excellence</i> 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. <p>CONTENTS INCLUDE:</p> <ul> <li> <div>A strategic overview of UK product development</div> </li> <li> <div>Technology management – a methodology towards achieving design excellence within the pharmaceutical industry</div> </li> <li> <div>Designing safer systems – the application of human factors methods</div> </li> <li> <div>From environmental assessment results to DFE product changes – an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative methods</div> </li> <li> <div>Design determines 70 percent of cost? A review of<br /> implications for design evaluation</div> </li> <li> <div>Using correlation chains to link customer requirements and physical laws</div> </li> <li> <div>How to manage ‘3-GEN’ products and services</div> </li> <li> <div>Strain based shallow shell finite element for<br /> circular cylindrical shells</div> </li> <li> <div>Validation of manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceuticals industry</div> </li> <li> <div>The use of formal design techniques in the<br /> development of a model device</div> </li> <li> <div>Aesthetic intelligence – optimizing user-centred design</div> </li> <li> <div>Tendering for engineering contracts</div> </li> <li> <div>An investigation on specifications – component, source information areas, and contents</div> </li> </ul>