• openAccess   Gestión del conocimiento de Diseño en la industria del mueble 

      Castells, M. J.; Barbosa, R.; Peinado, V.; Vidal, Rosario; Mulet, Elena; Bellés, María José Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2004)
      The goal of the project was to improve the design process of the products in the furniture industry. It consisted of investigating the definition of a knowledge-based model in order to assist in the design of the industrial ...
    • openAccess   Interrelación de técnicas de creatividad y métodos de ecodiseño 

      Justel Lozano, Daniel; Chiner, Mercedes; Vidal, Rosario Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2004)
      Every day the environmental factors to design products are becoming more and more important. In addition, the tendency is to approach the sustainability of the society, which causes the designers to begin to deal with ...
    • openAccess   Particle Swarm Optimisation Based 3D Reconstruction of Sketched Line Drawings 

      Piquer, Ana; Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel IOS Press (2004)
      The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of particle swarm optimisation to line drawings reconstruction. The paper’s new contribution is the application of swarm intelligence in dealing with machine ...
    • openAccess   Skewed Mirror Symmetry for Depth Estimation in 3D Line-Drawings 

      Piquer, Ana; Martin, Ralph; Company, Pedro Springer (2004)
      We aim to reconstruct three-dimensional polyhedral solids from axonometric-like line sketches. A new approach is proposed to make use of planes of mirror symmetry detected in sketches. Taking into account mirror symmetry ...
    • openAccess   Situación Actual de la Reconstrucción 3D de Dibujos Lineales 

      Piquer, Ana; Company, Pedro Centro de Informacion Tecnologica (2004)
      The present study summarizes the studies made on the three-dimensional reconstruction of linear drawings over the last thirty years, making a critical evaluation of different methods and current tendencies. A new general ...
    • openAccess   Integrated modeling with Top-Down approach in subsidiary industries 

      Aleixos, Nuria; Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel Elsevier (2004-01)
      This article considers how conceptual design of industrial products is supported by current CAD systems. The case of subsidiary industries, or first tier suppliers, that must simultaneously deal with different customers ...
    • openAccess   Computer-aided ideation through sketch-based modeling 

      Company, Pedro Computational Geometry and Graphics in Engineering (2004-11-05)
    • openAccess   An optimisation-based reconstruction engine for 3D modelling by sketching 

      Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel; Conesa, Julián; Piquer, Ana Elsevier (2004-12)
      An engine that automatically reconstructs a large variety of polyhedral, origami and wire-frame objects from single-view sketched drawings generated in a calligraphic interface is presented. The engine has two stages. An ...
    • openAccess   Educational software for teaching drawing-based conceptual design skills 

      Company, Pedro; Contero, Manuel; Piquer, Ana; Aleixos, Nuria; Conesa, Julián; Naya, Ferran Wiley (2004-12-17)
      An education-oriented computer application to draw sketches of polyhedrons that are automatically recognized to reconstructs the suitable three-dimensional (3D) models is presented. The users can modify the sketches and ...
    • openAccess   Triz applied for eco-innovation in design for disassembly 

      Justel Lozano, Daniel; Vidal, Rosario; Chiner, Mercedes Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2005)
      Eco-innovation is the field that supports the development of new products and services by means of considering environmental aspects from the first stages of design. This way the environmental impact of new products is ...
    • openAccess   Integración de principios inventivos de TRIZ en sistema de diseño conceptual asistido por ordenador (CAD) 

      Mulet, Elena; Vidal, Rosario Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2005)
      The work presented proposes the integration of TRIZ inventive principles as criteria for searching design alternatives in functional reasoning CACD systems. This approach enhances the exploration of different kinds of ...
    • openAccess   Clasificación de las necesidades de conocimiento de los diseñadores para el desarrollo de sistemas KBE para PYMEs 

      Lozano, R.; De los Reyes, E.; Vidal, Rosario Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2005)
      Este documento describe una revisión bibliográfica de las clasificaciones del conocimiento en diseño y propone una clasificación de las necesidades de conocimiento de los diseñadores, con el objetivo utilizarlas en la ...
    • openAccess   Convergence approach in experimental results 

      Camelo, Dioclecio; Vidal, Rosario; Mulet, Elena; García Fernández, Luis Amable Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2005)
      The process of synthesis is based on phases of divergence and convergence. Many authors illustrate the divergence process to find better alternatives for the design requirements. Although there are still few explanations ...
    • openAccess   Creativity in people vs in methods 

      López Mesa, María Belinda; Mulet, Elena; Vidal, Rosario; Bellés, María José; Thompson, Graham Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2005)
      This paper aims to analyse the type of influence that idea-finding methods and designers’ problem solving traits exert on the way the design process unfolds and in the outcomes. This is researched by means of protocol ...
    • openAccess   Eco-innovación en el desmontaje para buscar la sostenibilidad de la sociedad 

      Justel Lozano, Daniel; Vidal, Rosario; Chiner, Mercedes Asociación Española de Dirección e Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) (2005)
      The design for disassembly (DFD) is aimed at making it easier that a product and their parts can be easily reused, remanufactured or recycled. For that reason taking DFD into account is becoming more and more important ...
    • openAccess   Improving Visualization Skills in Engineering Education 

      Contero, Manuel; Company, Pedro; Saorín Pérez, José Luis; Naya, Ferran; Conesa, Julián IEEE Computer Society (2005-09)
      This article analyzes the importance of visualization skills in engineering education. It proposes a dual approach based on computer graphics applications using both Web-based graphic applications and a sketch based modeling ...
    • openAccess   Semantic Differential applied to the evaluation of machine tool design 

      Mondragón Donés, Salvador; Company, Pedro; Vergara, Margarita Elsevier (2005-11)
      In this article, a study is presented showing that Product Semantics (PS) can be used to study the design of machine tools. Nowadays, different approaches to PS (Semantic Differential, Kansei Engineering, etc.) are being ...
    • openAccess   A survey on geometrical reconstruction as a core technology to sketch-based modeling 

      Company, Pedro; Piquer, Ana; Contero, Manuel; Naya, Ferran Elsevier (2005-12)
      In this work, the background and evolution of three-dimensional reconstruction of line drawings during the last 30 years is discussed. A new general taxonomy is proposed to make apparent and discuss the historical evolution ...
    • openAccess   Learning Support Tools for Developing Spatial Abilities in Engineering Design 

      Cantero, Manuel; Naya, Ferran; Company, Pedro; Saorín Pérez, José Luis Tempus Publications (2006)
      This paper presents some learning support tools for developing spatial abilities in engineering design students. They are based on the previous authors' experience in teaching traditional Engineering Graphics and uses both ...
    • openAccess   Implantación de nuevas tecnologías para el desarrollo concurrente de productos 

      Vila, Carlos; Company, Pedro; Galmés, Vanesa Edicions de la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2006)
      El presente caso muestra la implantación de las nuevas tecnologías de la información en un entorno de Ingeniería Concurrente para una empresa fabricante de componentes para automoción suministradora de primer nivel. El ...