Christopher Mcmahon

Publication List Details

Period

1989 - 2009

Number

33

Co-Authors

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...

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...

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...

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,...

The generation of faceted classification schemes for use in the organisation of engineering design documents (2008)

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...

Comments On Hsieh, Moriarty and Oosterhout

Christopher McMahon

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...