Design Competitiveness Research Articles

Designing of Assessment System using Multiple Devices based on NCS Professional Basic

In this paper, all elements used in integrated infrastructure for job competency assessments of NCS (National Competency Standards) will be merged into assessment system using multiple devices(ASMD). NCS is a systematic approach on required abilities (knowledge, technical expertise, attitude) to process the tasks in the fields by industry. Competiveness of ASMD design is that no limitation of time and space using personal devices like PC, laptop, smartphone, and tablet, while seeing screen, hearing, touching, speaking, and writing. Question type can be limitless to express the situation. To lead technologies and market for domestic and oversea assessment system, supporting on multiple devices with connectivity that will eliminate limitation of time and space is the key feature for design competitiveness. Design of integrated assessment system proposed in this paper can be applied to NCS, fundamental competency evaluation, online test, job aptitude test, and foreign language test which involve listening, reading, writing, and speaking. Compared with existing evaluation method, reduction of investment and operating cost will be greater. Along with development of ICT technologies, the next generation of integrated assessment system will be quickly changed to ASMD, which already involves connected service between internet and smart devices.

Mapa de competitividad en diseño: validación en empresas del sector lácteo

<em><span>Este artículo integra el proceso, los resultados y las reflexiones de la investigación realizada con el propósito de identificar la situación y las perspectivas del diseño en algunas entidades públicas y privadas del sector lácteo, y explorar las formas de gestión utilizadas por un grupo de empresas de diferentes tamaños mediante el ajuste y la validación de una herramienta diagnóstica, en una muestra de 8 empresas productoras y comercializadoras de productos lácteos de Bogotá Región. Se exponen el marco conceptual y el proceso de actualización y validación de la herramienta Mapa de Competitividad en Diseño –MCD–, a partir de la teoría de las capacidades empresariales y los factores de competitividad determinantes del éxito empresarial. Los resultados permiten identificar las áreas o campos de actuación (producto, comunicación y entorno) y los niveles de integración (estrategia, política, programa y proyecto) del diseño en las empresas, y determinan tipologías según modelos de incorporación de la gestión del diseño en estas organizaciones. El trabajo realizado muestra la eficacia del Mapa de Competitividad en Diseño según Capacidades –MCDC–, resultante del ajuste, tanto para analizar los niveles de integración de la gestión de diseño desde los factores internos explicativos de la competitividad empresarial en las empresas, como para realizar análisis transversal de alcance sectorial.</span></em>

Design as a Condition for Prosperity in Czech Businesses - A Comparative Study

The purpose of the paper is to comprehensively review the sources of design management, business prosperity and competitiveness. The study shows the current situation in Czech businesses. Furthermore, this paper also attempts to analyze and identify the awareness of companies concerning the relation to design as a condition for business prosperity. The primary aim of the research is to investigate design as a condition of prosperity in Czech businesses. A comprehensive review of the extant literature and journals identified several sources of design approach and various definitions of business prosperity. The research consists of two main parts. Firstly, a method of smart internet questionnaires designed by the author was used. After that, the data were analyzed using mosaic plot and elementary statistics calculations, and seeking mutual dependence, followed by a comparative method. Finally, the findings were processed by comparative study that aims to compare the years 2012 and 2014. The results of the research offer interesting findings. This paper identifies several interesting aspects regarding design within Czech companies, including the mindset of management (the insight gap of Czech businesses regarding design in their business).

게임캐릭터의 패션스타일 유형 및 특성

Abstract This paper aims to propose the typology suitable for games by analyzing the fashion styles of game characters and define the characteristics by type. The data collected was classified into the style groups with similarities, and the game character styles were named using representative terms. Then, five styles were identified and analyzed with the focus on clothing, hairstyle, and accessories: Creative Style, Attractive Style, Grotesque Style, Usual Style, and Suit Style. Creative Style was the unique style with partial addition or removal as the creative design. Attractive Style expressed the sexual attraction by design with significant exposure of body parts and skintight design. Grotesque Style showed grotesque, eerie, and dreary design. Usual Style was a plain and practical style. Finally, Suit Style was a kind of armor covering the whole body. The analysis results in this paper will bridge the difference of opinions between gamers and developers related to fashion style and, finally, help to enhance the competitiveness of game design.

THEORY BASED MANAGEMENT AND SOFTWARE SUPPORT OF PROPERTY DRIVEN DESIGNING OF TECHNICAL PRODUCTS

There exist a lot of engineering design methodologies, methods and/or tools which help engineering designers and/or engineering design managers to increase design quality and competitiveness of the designed technical products. The presented paper reports on the contribution to it by a developed methodology and its SW support for design specification of both ProductBusiness and Product-Design requirements posed on a designed Technical Product seen as generalized abstract Technical System (TS) during its whole life cycle. These input data are then processed by continuous evaluation of their predicted properties and by early prediction of inherent strengths & weaknesses of the designed alternatives of TS including indication of potential risks. All this is accompanied by comparative evaluation of the designed TS competitiveness related to a starting “mother” product and/or technical solution, and selected competitive products. Calculated results are represented in the form of detailed and clear summary diagrams.

Application of Pro/Engineer in Mobile Front Cover Product Development and Mould Design

In the mobile industry, mobile cover is the primary manifestations of the look of the phone, which is made up of complex curved surface, the cover design and directly affect the quality of phone design efficiency and competitiveness. Take mobile front cover as the example, introduced the process of product modeling and mold design using the Pro/E software. Elaborated this product 3D design method in detail, introduced with emphasis the mold design cycle and design of the parting surface, the mold die space and the core. Software applications shorten product cycles, mold design and processing cycles, improving the accuracy of product design, and reduce product development and tooling costs, proof of use efficiency characteristics of Pro/E plastic mould design. Keywords-c Pro/E; 3D Model ; Mobile Front Cover ; Mould Design

문화도시 브랜드 이미지 구축을 위한 유니폼 디자인 개발 - '아시아문화중심도시' 광주를 중심으로 -

Lately, cities have been trying to build a certain brand by using its identity and culture in public designs. Cities are using its public design to show its cultural identity and to differentiate itself from other cities so it is playing a significant role in establishing a city's overall image. Public uniform is used to reflect the symbolism and identity of the city, an image of the city's culture and is used as a means of communication for specialization. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop public uniform designs to build and strengthen the brand of Gwangju as Asia cultural hub city. Research presents a review of the literature including concept and type of a cultural city, correlativity between public design and urban competitiveness, domestic and foreign culture city branding case: focusing on Gwangju which is a cultural hub city in Asia, and then study sets up the development direction and motifs of uniform designs, and uniforms are designed by making use of the textile with symbols and logos, colors, and architectural motifs of Asian Culture Complex. Development ranges of uniforms were limited to Cultural Tourism Narrators and the Asian Culture Complex Advertisements staff uniforms, within the region of cultural tourism. Textile design, illustration, uniform simulation using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Adobe Illustrator CS 3 program is presented.

해외건설 경쟁력 평가모델 개발에 관한 연구

본 연구의 목적은 글로벌 건설시장에서의 각 국가 기업들의 경쟁력을 비교할 수 있는 해외건설 경쟁력 지표의 수립과 평가에 관한 연구로써 매년 발표되는 Global-Insight, ENR, 통계청 등의 통계데이터를 기반으로 각 국가별 건설인프라 경쟁력과 기업별 건설역량지표를 토대로 해외건설 경쟁력을 평가하였다. 국가별 건설인프라 경쟁력 평가 결과 평가대상 22개 국가 중 미국 1위, 중국 2위, 일본 3위, 한국은 11위를 차지하였으며 국가별 건설기업 역량평가 결과 미국 1위, 이탈리아 2위, 중국 3위, 한국은 12위를 차지하였다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 2개의 지표에 가중치를 적용하여 국가별 글로벌 건설 경쟁력을 종합적으로 평가한 결과 평가대상 22개 국가 중 미국 1위, 중국 2위, 이탈리아 3위, 영국4위, 독일 5위로 나타났고, 한국은 9위를 차지하였다. 한국은 국가별 건설인프라 경쟁력(11위) 측면이 국가별 건설기업 역량평가(12위) 보다 약간 상위에 있는 것으로 도출되었으며, 특히 한국은 시장안정성(17위)과 설계경쟁력(19위) 측면에서 하위권으로 이 부분에 대한 개선노력이 필요한 것으로 분석되었다. The purpose of this study is to determine a national construction industry's competitiveness and establish strategies to expand into overseas construction markets. To evaluate the international competitiveness of overseas construction businesses, this study were selected as the target range of international comparisons among the countries cited by ENR, Global-Insight, IMF, OECD, and Transparency International. In result the United States ranked first, followed by China <TEX>$2^{nd}$</TEX>, Italy<TEX>$3^{rd}$</TEX>, U.K.<TEX>$4^{th}$</TEX>, and Germany <TEX>$5^{th}$</TEX>, while Korea ranked <TEX>$9^{th}$</TEX> overall. In particular, Korea's competitiveness in the construction infrastructures by country ranking(<TEX>$11^{th}$</TEX>) was higher than the competency assessment results of construction companies by country, therein ranking <TEX>$12^{th}$</TEX>. In addition, while Korea ranks <TEX>$12^{th}$</TEX> among 22 countries, <TEX>$3^{rd}$</TEX> in price competitiveness, <TEX>$12^{th}$</TEX> in construction competitiveness, and <TEX>$19^{th}$</TEX> in design competitiveness.

Industrial Design Innovation and Creative Industrial Economy

Since Industrial Revolution, the development of industrial design has promoted the socio-economic development. Industrial design is the core competitiveness. Industrial design, regarding creativity as the forerunner, will promote the economic development of creative industries. The article discusses longitudinally the evolution of industrial design and industrial economy, laterally takes the competitiveness of industrial design as that of industrial economy. Industrial design and creative industry promote each other and cannot be seperated. Creative industry in the era of knowledge economy has become the highlight of the economic development of modern industrial economy.

A New Concurrent Engineering – Multi Criteria Decision Making Technique for Conceptual Design Selection

Product development process involves conceptual design selection, which is an activity engaging with numerous types of data including technical-customer specifications and current design developments. This paper presents a conceptual design selection which employs a new technique which accommodates Concurrent Engineering (CE) – Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) strategies. This new technique combines Concurrent Network (CE-ANP), Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), referred as CoNQA. To illustrate this technique, a case study is presented involving aerospace application which is the selection of wing spar material. The result shows that the proposed new technique proved to be a sound method which considers product performance, product specification, technical specifications and selection of the best alternative in the selection process. This new method should be a useful aid for designers in collaboration with engineers to perform systematic and parallel technique involving early consideration of technical-customer requirements during conceptual design, hence to establish good product design and increase product competitiveness.

The study on analysis of competitiveness of foreign design consultancies as part of effort to improve the competence of domestic design consultancies

The study on analysis of competitiveness of foreign design consultancies as part of effort to improve the competence of domestic design consultancies

A Study for Design Competitiveness through the Support of developing a prototype

A Study for Design Competitiveness through the Support of developing a prototype

브레인스토밍과 WebStorming의 아이디어 발상량(發想量) 비교 연구

창의적인 디자인 컨셉(Concept) 개발을 위해서는 팀원들의 아이디어 발상량(發想量)이 매우 중요하다. 기획에서 제안까지 브레인스토밍 발상 방법을 통하여 과제에 대한 창의적인 문제점 도출(導出)과 해결 방안에 대한 과정과 원리를 이해할 수 있다. 따라서 아이디어 발상량 도출은 자유로운 생각들을 단어로 표현하는 것이다. 처음부터 좋은 아이디어를 내려하기 보다는 많은 아이디어를 만드는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문은 기존의 실제(實際) 브레인스토밍의 프로세스를 연구하고, 웹(Web) 환경에서 업그레이드(Upgrade) 되어진 네트워크 서비스와 멀티미디어 기술을 활용하여 아이디어 발상과 정리(整理)를 전개하는 것이다. "Webstorming" 프로그램의 Brainwriting과 Braindrawing 과정을 통해 장소나 시간 제약 없이, 쓰기, 그리기를 통하여 요소(要素) 군집(群集)별 아이디어 발상량을 비교한 후에, 디자인 팀원들의 요소 군집별 특성을 분석하여 창의적인 아이디어 발상 방법을 제시한다. 본 연구는 지식정보화 사회에서 디자인과 IT관련 기술을 응용하여, 상품 기획, 상품 개발, 마케팅에 활용함으로서 국가적인 디자인 경쟁력을 확보하고 부가가치를 높이는데 기여하고자 한다. To develop a creative design concept, amount of idea thinking between team members is important. In the process of planning to proposal brainstorming helps clarification of problems and allows a creative solution. Here, idea generation is to express thinking into words, and greater amount of idea is more valued than to choose one fine idea at first. This paper studies actual processes of brainstorming, and we utilize network services upgraded in Web and multimedia techniques to develop idea with arrangement. We compare the amount of idea generation by groups and topics with Brainwriting and Braindrawing of Webstorming, without limitation of space and time. Then, we propose a creative idea thinking by analyzing the characteristics of design team members in various aspects. This result will contribute in improving national potential value and design competitiveness by the help of design and IT, on product research and marketing.

Industrial Product-Service Systems—IPS 2

In mechanical engineering and plant design, product-related services are usually considered as an add-on to the actual product. Industrial Product-Service Systems deal with dynamic interdependencies of products and services in production. Research areas cover new concepts and methods which enable the machine producers to design the potential services in an optimal way, already during the development of the machine. This paradigm shift from the separated consideration of products and services to a new product understanding consisting of integrated products and services creates innovation potential to increase the sustainable competitiveness of mechanical engineering and plant design. The latter allows business models which do not focus on the machine sales but on the use for the customer e.g. in form of continuously available machines. The business model determines the complexity of delivery processes. Characteristics of Industrial Product-Service Systems allow covering all market demands.

Enhancing Local Designers Skill in Rattan Furniture Industries in Cirebon through Comprehensive-Design Approach Regarding Buyers’ Dependencies Prevention

Between the 1970s and the 1990s, the Indonesian economy has been transforming from an agriculture-based to an industry-based economy. According to this condition, Cirebon growth rapidly to export rattan goods even this city has no resources in rattan. The lack of design quality, export regulation and global economic crisis become the main factor to affect the decrease of company’s income at recent. Despite the crisis, government is now trying to recover by inviting design expert to improve design skills and capacity building of entrepreneurs in particular small-medium scale enterprises. This study aims to define why Cirebon still lags behind in industrial competitiveness regarding rattan furniture design. The intervention program of design is conducted to seek out the craftsman’s ability and determined the kind of design competitiveness advantages according their nature of business.

Reflections on Design Excellence through International Product Design Award Schemes

ABSTRACTThis paper examines international product design award schemes to identify the relationship between successful manufacturers in design award schemes and their corporate design competitiveness. Four international product design award schemes – the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA), iF Product Design, Red Dot Product Design and Japanese Good Design Award (JGDA) – were selected from a group of 22 potential schemes. The awards were comparatively reviewed in detail, and the inter-dynamics of the benefits of the award schemes were discussed. In order to reveal the true value of winning awards in reflecting corporate design excellence, a new qualitative analysis method that takes into consideration the selectiveness of different awards was developed. The results from the qualitative analysis challenge the popular belief of simply regarding the number of awards won as corporate design excellence. The design excellence of the award winners were re-ranked according to the new method developed through this research. The findings of the research suggest that this could be a truer reflection of reality.

An enhanced methodical approach to machine tool design procedure

The designers' heuristic approach has been the subject of research, with a view to developing algorithms that can be used in automated design systems. However, apart from some general achievements, viable results are not sufficiently available to be employed in machine tool design procedures. The existing algorithms suffer serious deficiencies, restraining their viable use. In pursuit of a total solution, the current authors have proposed an enhanced methodology on the basis of a weighted priority system that can be used for various steps of machine tool design practice and competitiveness evaluation procedure. The core idea of this methodology is based on prioritization of design factors. The weighted priority orders of input information and the degree and intensity of connectivity existing between input information and design factors are used to decide the priorities of design factors. This methodical approach can assist in developing consistency among the designers throughout design procedures, improving competence of young engineers, and developing total solutions and CAD programs. Its applications have been illustrated by examples of layout, assembly, and component design for machining centres and lathes.

Rapid digital system prototyping: current practice, future challenges

A top-down methodology that emphasizes modular, upgradable designs solves some problems with the current design process for application-specific signal processors. Virtual prototyping, model year architectures, and reuse-based design form the pillars of this new approach, which promises to raise industrial design productivity and competitiveness.

Winning by Design: Technology, Product Design and International Competitiveness

Winning by Design: Technology, Product Design and International Competitiveness

Taking the Lead: Design and Global Competitiveness in the Nineties

Design Management Journal (Former Series)Volume 1, Issue 2 p. 3-7 Taking the Lead: Design and Global Competitiveness in the Nineties Thomas Walton, Thomas Walton EditorSearch for more papers by this author Thomas Walton, Thomas Walton EditorSearch for more papers by this author First published: Summer 1990 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1948-7169.1990.tb00001.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume1, Issue2Summer 1990Pages 3-7 RelatedInformation