Adapting eco-innovation tools to the needs of the company: a case study (2009)
O'Hare, Jamie, Dekoninck, Elies, Turnbull, A, McMahon, Christopher
Facilitating design learning through faceted classification of in-service information (2009)
Goh, Yee Mey, Giess, Matthew, McMahon, Christopher
The maintenance and service records collected and maintained by engineering companies are a useful resource for the ongoing support of products. Such records are typically semi-structured and contain...
Component-based Records: a Novel Method to Record Transaction Design Work (2009)
Ding, Lian, Giess, Matthew, Goh, Yee Mey, McMahon, Christopher, Thangarajah, Uday
The growing pressures from global competitive markets signal the inevitable challenge for companies to rapidly design and develop new successful products. To continually improve design quality and...
An Information Support Approach for Machine Design & Building Companies (2009)
Ding, Lian, Matthews, Jason, McMahon, Christopher, Mullineux, Glen
The recording of information regarding machine function, performance, and failure, which is generated during the machine development, commissioning, and service is vital to an organization. Previous...
Application of faceted classification in the support of manufacturing process selection (2009)
Giess, Matthew, McMahon, Christopher, Booker, I. D., Stewart, D.
Engineering designers are required to consider many factors concurrently when evolving a design, one such factor being the manufacturing process by which the product Will be realized. The selection...
Special Issue: Developing and using engineering ontologies (2009)
McMahon, Christopher, Van Leeuwen, J
Editorial material
Annotation of lightweight formats for long-term product representations (2009)
Ding, Lian, Ball, Alexander, Matthews, Jason, McMahon, Christopher, Patel, Manjula
Companies operating in today’s global economy are increasingly expected to manage the entire lifecycle of their products, and are finding advantage in a distributed, collaborative working style....
An information support approach for machine design and building companys (2009)
Ding, Lian, Matthews, Jason, McMahon, Christopher, Mullineux, Glen
The recording of information regarding machine function, performance and failure which is generated during the machine development, commissioning and service is vital to an organization. Previous...
A Diary Study of Information Needs and Document Usage in the Engineering Domain (2009)
Wild, P. J., McMahon, Christopher, Darlington, Mansur J, Liu, S., Culley, Stephen
Engineering design, despite its technical mechanical and mathematical foundations, is heavily informational. Many authors have used information as the focus of their research; in contrast, our study...
Improved Utility and Application of Probabilistic Methods for Reliable Mechanical Design. (2009)
Goh, Yee-Mey, McMahon, Christopher, Booker, J
In a modern product development process such as in the automotive and aerospace sectors, extensive analytical and simulation approaches are used to assess the ability of a design in fulfilling its...
Improving reuse of in-service information capture and feedback (2009)
Goh, Yee-Mey, McMahon, Christopher
Purpose – The adoption of the product-service system business model means that the designing company has greater scope and motivation to learn from experience of its products in use to improve...
Adapting innovation tools to the eco-innovation requirements of industry: case study results (2009)
O'Hare, Jamie, Dekoninck, Elies, McMahon, Christopher, Turnbull, A
An automatic mark-up approach for structured document retrieval in engineering design (2008)
Liu, S, McMahon, Christopher, Darlington, M. J., Culley, S. J., Wild, P. J.
Information and knowledge retrieval has been recognized as a key issue in engineering design. A great deal of design-related information used and generated within engineering companies is formally...
A framework for considering uncertainty in quantitative Life Cycle cost estimation (2008)
Goh, Yee Mey, Newnes, Linda, McMahon, Christopher, Mileham, Antony, Paredis, Christiaan
ExProMod, a Product Development Support Tool (2008)
Ding, Lian, Matthews, Jason, McMahon, Christopher, Mullineux, Glen
The initial investigations are presented into three equipment design and manufacture companies, and their issues relating to information loss and inaccuracies, and present the employment of an...
Issues and challenges for improving email use in engineering design (2008)
Loftus, Craig, McMahon, Christopher, Hicks, Ben
Good communication within the design process is a key component in an effective design process. As design teams become more distributed, effective communication becomes more difficult. For example,...
Giess, Matthew, Wild, P J, McMahon, Christopher
Vast quantities of electronic information are generated and stored such that engineers may later retrieve, assimilate and ultimately utilise such information during their daily activities. Where...
A Genetic Algorithm Approach To Planning The Telecommunications Access Network (1997)
David Brittain, Jon Sims Williams, Christopher Mcmahon
This paper describes an application of genetic algorithms to telecommunications network planning. A description is given of passive optical networks (PONs), a form of optical fibre network. These...
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Comments On Hsieh, Moriarty and Oosterhout
A response to the discussants, Nien-hê Hsieh, Jeffrey Moriarty and J. (Hans) van Oosterhout, who took part in the March, 2005 symposium “The Political Theory of Organizations: A...