APPENDIX 6
Syndicate Groups - Needs and requirements
GROUPS A/B : NEEDS AND REQUIREMENTS
- "Front End Tools" to support the Innovation / Bidding phase
- "Tools" - methods
Booklets
- checklist
- "Seamless" with downstream tools
- To avoid re-keying (same data source management)
- Support for knowledge Retrieval
- Standards
- Data Base capabilities
- Integration
- Better understanding of the market
- - Ditto - Customers
All customers
- Understanding of differentiation of product in the market
How are products differentiated?
- Improving skills and knowledge of the workforce
Higher quality of people
Capturing and Using best - practice
Knowledge Transfer
- Special needs to support "1OFF" design process
Pressures put down the supply chain onto SME's
Ability of SME's to respond to Technology process changes "imposed"
- Support for Global Supply Chain working
(Groups C and D)
INDUSTRY NEEDS.
- BETTER / FASTER / CHEAPER
PROCESS à PRODUCT
- Coping with complexity - volume of information
- Knowledge Management
- Representation of Design intent
- Requirements Management
- Networks / Intranets
- People / Team Issues / Communication
- People centred design tools and processes
- Improve process visibility
- Next generation of CAD
- Design Process Metrics
- Risk Analysed and Management tools
- Supply of creative designers
- "One - Stop" University shops
RESEARCH ISSUES / ENABLERS
- CHANGE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH METRICS
- MANAGEMENT SUPPORT FOR UNIVERSITY RESEARCH TEAMS
- Properly scoped, targetted research
(Taxonomy - over ambition to be avoided)
(Better Integration)
- Long - Term collaborative projects
- Secondments / transfer of people to undertake "Blue skies" Research
- Validation laboratory (Virtual?)
- Don't just focus on easily validated concepts
- Emphasise "Reality" in design research
- Real world design problems
- Clear evaluation path
- Allow implementation research
- Real company input
- Ability to explore fundamental issues
