Design for Excellence contains papers from a conference organised by Brunel University. This book will be useful for designers, engineers, software developers, and other technologists working in a wide variety of engineering applications. Both those working in industry and in the academic environment will want to have access to this valuble resource.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

• A strategic overview of UK product development
• Technology management - a methodology towards achieving design excellence within the pharmaceutical industry
• Designing safer systems - the application of human factors methods
• From environmental assessment results to DFE product changes - an evaluation of quantitative and qualitative methods
• Design determines 70 percent of cost? A review of
  implications for design evaluation
• Using correlation chains to link customer requirements and physical laws
• How to manage '3-GEN' products and services
• Strain based shallow shell finite element for circular cylindrical shells
• Validation of manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceuticals industry
• The use of formal design techniques in the development of a model device
• Aesthetic intelligence - optimizing user-centred design
• Tendering for engineering contracts
• An investigation on specifications - component, source information areas, and contents