Dear John
many thanks for the kind words about the work of Ken's group. I'm part of
it, in fact! :)
cheers
Rob
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:29:09 -0800, John Feland <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Rob,
>
>Thanks for jumping into the conversation! From your coauthors, it
>looks like you have worked with Ken Wallace. The group at Cambridge
>has also be doing some tremendous work in this area as well. In
>fact, several streams of research can be found in the proceedings of
>the International Conference on Engineering Design. Works ranges
>from electronic design notebooks similar to Scott Klemmer's work that
>Chuck mentioned to design ontologies created to support information
>capture and reuse.
>
>The most recent conference was held in Australia this year. The
>conference is run by the Design Society, www.designsociety.org.
>
>Cheers,
>
>John
>
>At 08:46 AM 12/13/2005, Rob Bracewell wrote:
>>Dear Chuck, Fil et al
>>
>>thanks for the plug, Fil! There's nothing much on the web about DRed at the
>>moment, but the tool is described in some detail in an ASME DETC paper:
>>
>>BRACEWELL, R.H., AHMED, S. and WALLACE, K.M. (2004) 'DRed and design
>>folders: a way of capturing, storing and passing on - knowledge generated
>>during design projects' in Design Automation Conference, ASME, Salt Lake
>>City, Utah, USA
>>
>>The software was researched and implemented in close collaboration with
>>designers in Rolls-Royce over the past four years, and has recently been
>>adopted as part of their standard PLM software toolset. Hundreds of
>>designers have been trained, and its use is growing steadily in the company.
>>One example of its successful use, is a subsystem of the Boeing 787
>>Dreamliner's Trent 1000 engine, that won an award for its technical
>>innovation and performance benefits. This was designed from concept onwards
>>using DRed, and the rationale routinely captured and reviewed as the design
>>proceeded.
>>
>>best wishes
>>
>>Rob
>>
>>On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 09:46:44 -0500, Filippo A. Salustri
>><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> >Chuck et al,
>> >
>> >Some of my research moves around the periphery of this matter. I like
>> >using wikis and concept maps to represent design information. In one
>> >currently funded project, a grad student is looking at the use of
>> >concept maps for early design information. As people use concept maps,
>> >we hope to study the activities they perform and analyse the results to
>> >make recommendations on how design activities can be helped with better
>> >tools and methods.
>> >
>> >I like concept maps and wikis because they're very 'free form' compared
>> >to typical other tools engineering designers might use. As a result,
>> >one hopes that the organisation of the information emerges from the usage.
>> >
>> >There's many other people working on aspects of this. EG: Rob Bracewell
>> >at Cambridge has a tool called DRed for capturing design rationale in an
>> >IBIS-like framework. DRed charts can be thought of as examples of what
>> >information design engineers use. If snapshots were taken of DRed
>> >charts during their construction/evolution, one might be able to "see" a
>> >bit the kinds of activities and order of those activities that occur.
>> >
>> >Cheers.
>> >Fil
>> >
>> >Charles Burnette wrote:
>> >> Dear List,
>> >>
>> >> This is worth reading and then pondering from the point of view
>> of design -
>> >> ie. how design information is produced, recorded and organized.
>> >>
>> >> http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/december7/field-120705.html
>> >>
>> >> We are not thinking well enough about how what we do can be captured,
>> >> organized and analyzed. Perhaps some bright PhD candidate can "research"
>> >> design from the standpoint of how information could and should be captured
>> >> and organized as it is produced.
>> >>
>> >> I hope someone will take it on,
>> >>
>> >> Chuck
>> >
>> >--
>> >Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
>> >Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
>> >Ryerson University Tel: 416/979-5000 x7749
>> >350 Victoria St. Fax: 416/979-5265
>> >Toronto, ON email: [log in to unmask]
>> >M5B 2K3 Canada http://deed.ryerson.ca/~fil/
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