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A Template for Design for eXcellence (DfX) Methods

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Smart Product Engineering

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Abstract

Design for eXcellence (DfX) entails a wide range of goal specific design methods targeting different phases of a product’s lifecycle. These methods are often not standardized and sometimes even have contradicting rules among them. As a consequence, design processes experience an increase in organizational entropy. This paper presents a template for DfX methods. The goal is to assist the industry in setting up lean design processes. The results of this research are threefold: (1) standardization of DfX design tasks and information flows, (2) facilitating the implementation of DfX methods and (3) enable benchmarking of DfX methods to purify design processes.

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  1. Lab of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Juan Manuel Jauregui Becker & Wessel W. Wits

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Becker, J.M.J., Wits, W.W. (2013). A Template for Design for eXcellence (DfX) Methods. In: Abramovici, M., Stark, R. (eds) Smart Product Engineering. Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30817-8_4

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