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Innovative methods and advanced digital technologies to support product design in collaborative environments
No full textNell’ambito dell’industrial design si ha il bisogno di condividere conoscenze, competenze ed esperienze tra
tutti gli esperti coinvolti nel team di lavoro e integrare i diversi punti di vista per raggiungere l’obiettivo
principale di ogni attività di design: la progettazione di un prodotto innovativo e di successo. Oggigiorno i confini non si limitano più alla singola azienda ma si estendono a livello globale, comprendendo numerosi partners di progetto e agendo a livello mondiale, secondo il nuovo concetto di extended enterprise. Ne consegue che il design assume un carattere fortemente collaborativo e dislocato (collaborative design) e la collaborazione diventa parte integrante delle attività progettuali al fine di realizzare prodotti e servizi di alta
qualità. Molteplici tecnologie digitali e strumenti ICT possono essere utilizzati a supporto della progettazione
al fine di migliorare la comunicazione tra le persone del gruppo di lavoro, facilitare l’interazione con le
rappresentazioni di prodotto, riprodurre tipiche attività face-to-face anche in team geograficamente distribuiti
e gestire lo scambio dati in modo efficace e condiviso lungo l’intero ciclo di sviluppo prodotto. Tuttavia le tecnologie disponibili sono ancora scarsamente utilizzate perché la loro scelta è spesso difficoltosa e la
correlazione con i benefici ottenibili e ottenuti non è banale.
Il presente lavoro di tesi si colloca in questo scenario e riguarda l’elaborazione di metodi e strumenti innovativi a supporto del collaborative design. In particolare, analizza la collaborazione da molteplici punti di vista, considerando il fattore umano alla pari delle performance di sistema, e presenta una metodologia
strutturata per valutare la qualità di processi collaborativi all’interno di team di lavoro multidisciplinari e
distribuiti. Tale metodo è applicato sia per attività di benchmarking delle tecnologie, al fine di definire gli
strumenti più appropriati per specifici contesti d’uso, sia di valutazione della qualità dei processi collaborativi ottenuta mediante l’utilizzo di determinati strumenti di supporto. Nel corso della ricerca il
metodo è stato applicato a numerosi casi industriali e diversi settori d’utilizzo e la presente tesi ne riporta gli
esempi più significativi, tra cui la definizione e la sperimentazione della piattaforma collaborativa del
Consorzio CO-ENV (www.coenv.it). Le attività sperimentali hanno infine permesso di evidenziare i limiti
delle attuali applicazioni e di definire un nuovo paradigma di interazione che meglio risponde alle esigenze
dell’impresa distribuita al fine di definire nuove linee di sviluppo per la creazione di ambienti collaborativi innovativi
Design of a service-oriented architecture for AAL
No full textIntelligent systems and ambient-assisted living (AAL) technologies actually represent an important research area, mainly due to the rapidly aging society, the increasing cost of healthcare and the growing importance that individuals place on living independently. The general goal is to create intelligence systems able to support people with specific demands to live longer in their preferred environment thanks to intelligent, sensitive and responsive devices. The research describes the design and development of a service-oriented system architecture where different smart objects are combined to offer assistive functionalities to elderly people. The design is driven by a user-centred approach and human-oriented principles. A prototypal system has been realised in the context of an Italian research project promoted by National Institute on Health and Science of Aging (INRCA). The result is an interoperable and flexible platform that allows creating user-centred services for independent living
Editorial to the special issue “Transdisciplinary approaches for industrial information integration engineering I”
No full textIndustrial information integration engineering is an emerging sub- ject in industry and research, which aims to support modern industry by knowledge-intensive strategies and pervasive interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary industrial informatization. Indeed, industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 concepts are reshaping the industries by boosting the integration of information and communication technolo- gies (ICT) and industrial systems. In this context, transdisciplinary en- gineering can validly support the definition of new cross-boundaries approaches and prosperous implementing methodologies by merging natural sciences, technical issues, and social sciences. The issue presents a set of examples of successful strategies to promote smart industry in the “factory of the future”
Special Issue on: Agile Approaches for Transdisciplinary Engineering
No full textTransdisciplinary engineering (TE) is an emerging field that extends and evolves the
initial basic concepts known as concurrent engineering (CE). While CE concentrates on
enterprise collaboration, from integrating people and processes to very specific complete
multi/inter/transdisciplinary solutions, TE combines natural sciences, applied sciences,
social sciences and humanities to achieve a higher level of comprehension and awareness
of the context in which industrial products, processes, systems or services will be
implemented and are experienced by users (Borsato et al., 2016)
Early sustainability assessment to design competitive industrial systems
No full textNowadays industrial system design has to face a big issue: offering new advanced functionalities, guaranteeing high performances, respecting the competitive pressure, limiting the environmental impact, expanding the company’s market share, being usable and easy to control. In a nutshell, they have to be sustainable in respect with planet, profit and people. In this context, Design for Sustainability (D4S) promotes a sustainable design practice, where all impacts are considered and optimized. However, D4S methods usually focus on one single aspect at a time (e.g. eco-design addresses environmental issues, ergonomics investigates physical human-product interaction, etc.). In practice, industrial systems design requires numerous aspects to be integrated and optimized contemporarily and interactively: mechanics, electronics, system control, management of material and information flows, human-machine interface, human-product interaction, as well as impacts on environment, costs and human factors. The present research proposes an analytical approach for an early sustainability assessment based on a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) considering the three aspects of sustainability (environment, cost and humans) and a feature-based approach, to support their easy and preventive analysis
Special Issue on: Agile Approaches for Transdisciplinary Engineering
No full textTransdisciplinary engineering (TE) is an emerging field that extends and evolves the
initial basic concepts known as concurrent engineering (CE). While CE concentrates on
enterprise collaboration, from integrating people and processes to very specific complete
multi/inter/transdisciplinary solutions, TE combines natural sciences, applied sciences,
social sciences and humanities to achieve a higher level of comprehension and awareness
of the context in which industrial products, processes, systems or services will be
implemented and are experienced by users (Borsato et al., 2016)
An Assistive Integrated Platform (AIP) for active ageing: the HicMO project
No full textActive ageing is actually one of the key topics of European research mainly due to rapidly population ageing, increasing cost of health care, and growing importance of living independently (1). Active ageing basically means helping people stay in charge of their own lives as long as possible as they age and, where possible, contribute to economy and society. In order to achieve this goal, assistive technologies and ambient- assisted intelligence are applied to enable people to live at home longer and better by tools (i.e. smart objects, intelligent devices) being sensitive and responsive to their presence, conditions and actions. The research describes the development of an Assis- tive Integrated Platform (AIP) that follows used-centered design (UCD) principles and merges domotic and assistive components. The system consists of a central intelli- gence (i.e. Integration Platform (IP)), a network of Smart Objects sharing information from/to the IP, and a set of gateways enabling communication with home automation systems. A laboratory has been set-up to carry out usability tests with users
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