...Yan Liu; Xinru Chen; Claudia Eckert; Xin Zhang Concept selection is one of the most important activities in new product development processes in that it greatly influences the direction of subsequent design activities. As a complex multiple-criteria decision-making problem, it often requires...

.... Therefore, designers must adopt a “dual” design mindset—emphasizing both, opportunistic and restrictive DfAM—when designing for AM. However, to leverage AM capabilities, designers must not only generate creative ideas for AM but also select these creative ideas during the concept selection stage. Design...

... about uncertainty and updating belief according to the new information is an important step in concept selection. However, obtaining additional information can be considered beneficial only if the acquisition cost is less than the benefit. In this paper, a mathematical model is used as an information...

...Shun Takai; Kosuke Ishii This paper presents a decision-analytic system concept selection for a public project. In the proposed approach, the decision-maker (engineer) chooses a system concept and requests a budget for building the system. The unique customer (government) decides whether to approve...