Ledwith, Ann; Richardson, Ita; Sheehan, Anne(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2006)
Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to present a modified framework for the waves of change of new product development of McGrath. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative study of new product development (NPD) ...
Knowledge, experience, and intuition are integral parts of decision making. However, these alone are not sufficient to manage today’s industrial systems. Often predictive models are required to weigh options and determine ...
O'Dwyer, Michele; Risquez, Angelica; Ledwith, Ann(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2010)
Purpose – This paper seeks to contribute to entrepreneurship education research by exploring entrepreneurship students' views of plagiarism, and their ability to recognise and avoid plagiarism.
Design/methodology/approach ...
Today's supply chain companies operate in a very competitive, global and rapidly changing market place, where risk assessment in the operation of their supply chains is
increasingly seen as important. To cope with this ...
Ledwith, Ann; Risquez, Angelica(Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2008)
A variety of free and commercial software applications designed to detect plagiarism from Internet sources has appeared in recent years. However, their effectiveness and impact on student behaviour has been assumed rather ...
Design for sustainability is a complex and ever changing design process. With an ever increasing need to design and manufacture sustainable products there are demands put on product and industrial designers to ensure that ...
Howard, Lorraine; Lewis, Huw J.(Taylor and Francis, 2006)
The aim of this research is to develop an Expert System (ES) that is linked into a
3D design package, which will provide comparison data for various material and
manufacturing process combinations to produce a design. ...
de Burca, Stefán; Williams, Peter; Armstrong, Claire(Health Systems Research Centre, 2008)
The aim of the overall study is to inform the design and delivery of a high reliability
clinical directorate. This report is the result of the mapping phase in the case study of
the Women’s and Children’s Directorate, ...
The traditional process of metallic wire and rod production pulls a wire/rod through a die to reduce its diameter in successive steps. The considerable die wear at the tool-die interface coupled with the additional lubrication ...
The concept of sustainable design as a specialism within design, business and manufacture is not a new one. Writers and educators such as Victor Papanek (Papanek 1971) and Buckminster Fuller (Fuller and Snyder 1969) were ...