A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design
Journal Article
Gokula Vijaykumar, A. V., Komoto, H., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Tomiyama, T., Evans, S., …Williams, S. (2013)
A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design. Journal of Remanufacturing, 3(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1186/2210-4690-3-8
Manufacturers aim to design product-service systems (PSS) which integrate services with products to attain sustained competitive advantage from a life cycle perspective. PSS d...
Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis.
Working Paper
Pearson, M. Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis)
Pearson, M. Value Chain Management: An Illustration using Variability Mapping and Decision Frontier Analysis
A simple value chain is modeled by a contractor (dual operator) making an agreement with a customer (primal operator) to complete a project in a number of stages monitored wit...
Acoustic segregation and structural timber production.
Thesis
Searles, G. J. Acoustic segregation and structural timber production. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5291
Concerns about changes in the quality of the maturing British spruce resource (principally stiffness) have raised doubts about maintaining strength grading pass-rates. Acousti...
A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data
Journal Article
Hussain, R., Lockett, H., & Annamalai Vasantha, G. V. (2012)
A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data. Computers in Industry, 63(4), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.02.013
Both the Product-Service System (PSS) literature and industry express a need to close the design loop by using product-in-use data to inform PSS Conceptual Design. Nevertheles...
Scotland's paper industry.
Book
Bromage, S., McCleery, A., & Finkelstein, D. (2008)
Scotland's paper industry. In H. Williams (Ed.), 500 Years of printing in ScotlandScottish Print Archival trust
The development and production of a guide for noise control from laminated and wooden flooring.
Working Paper
Waters-Fuller, T. (2005)
The development and production of a guide for noise control from laminated and wooden flooring.
This document, produced by the Building Performance Centre at Napier University, was commissioned by Defra and the Devolved Administrations of the Scottish Executive, the Nati...
Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design
Book
Keates, S. L., & Clarkson, J. (2004)
Countering design exclusion: an introduction to inclusive design. Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0013-3
Inclusive design, universal design and universal access are long standing, familiar terms with clear and laudable goals. However, their teaching and industrial uptake has been...
A review of acoustical fencing.
Working Paper
Waters-Fuller, T., MacKenzie, R., Mackenzie, R. & McAlister, D. (2003)
A review of acoustical fencing.
The Integration of Design and Manufacture ‐A Quantum Leap
Journal Article
Hunt, I., Roberts, S., & Jones, R. (1993)
The Integration of Design and Manufacture ‐A Quantum Leap. Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 4(2), 15-19. https://doi.org/10.1108/09576069310037464
New product “time to market” in the information technology (IT) industry is increasingly critical to a company′s competitiveness. Early product release into the marketplace wi...