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Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences (2024)
Conference Proceeding
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2024). Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences. In 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (1304-1315). https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10407667

Conventional methods used to elicit risk-taking preferences have demonstrated significant disparities with real-world behaviours, compromising the validity of the data collected. Serious gaming (SG) provides a high potential to bridge this gap. This... Read More about Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences.

Cognitive Factors Affecting the Manufacturing Optimization Skills of Rural Indian BPO Workers (2023)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., & Upadhyay, C. K. (2023). Cognitive Factors Affecting the Manufacturing Optimization Skills of Rural Indian BPO Workers. Knowledge, 3(4), 626-641. https://doi.org/10.3390/knowledge3040039

Crowdsourcing offers on-demand access to large numbers of human workers to implement new forms of human–computer collaborative functionalities that can be seamlessly integrated into advanced software and algorithms. However, crowdsourcing tasks are p... Read More about Cognitive Factors Affecting the Manufacturing Optimization Skills of Rural Indian BPO Workers.

Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries (2023)
Book Chapter
Harris, N., & Vasantha, G. (in press). Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries. In Future of Design Education: InFuSED23. Springer

This chapter looks at the design and engineering of products to assist people with disability. It looks at the process that companies, disability organisations and universities employ to help develop aids and products that solve various needs. Althou... Read More about Experiences of Design for Disability in Collaborating with Students and Industries.

Hierarchical ensemble deep learning for data-driven lead time prediction (2023)
Journal Article
Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., El-Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023). Hierarchical ensemble deep learning for data-driven lead time prediction. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 128(9-10), 4169-4188. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-12123-4

This paper focuses on data-driven prediction of lead times for product orders based on the real-time production state captured at the arrival instants of orders in make-to-order production environments. In particular, we consider a sophisticated manu... Read More about Hierarchical ensemble deep learning for data-driven lead time prediction.

A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Aslan, A., Hanson, J., El-Raoui, H., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2024). A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System. In Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. Proceedings of FAIM 2023, June 18–22, 2023, Porto, Portugal, Volume 2: Industrial Management (1194-1204). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38165-2_136

Digital sensing technologies are essential for realizing Industry 4.0, as they enhance productivity, assist with real-time decision-making, and provide flexibility and agility in manufacturing factories. However, implementing these technologies can b... Read More about A Knowledge Graph Approach for State-of-the-Art Implementation of Industrial Factory Movement Tracking System.

Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Aslan, A., Lapok, P., Lawson, A., & Thomas, S. (2024). Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing. In Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems. Proceedings of FAIM 2023, June 18–22, 2023, Porto, Portugal, Volume 1: Modern Manufacturing (388-398). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38241-3_44

Monitoring and identification of defects during additive manufacturing is mostly done by bespoke optical or acoustic measurement systems. These in-situ monitoring technologies are either intrusive or sensitive to noisy manufacturing environments. We... Read More about Movement Tracking-Based In-Situ Monitoring System for Additive Manufacturing.

Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Aslan, A., El-Raoui, H., Hanson, J., Vasantha, G., Quigley, J., & Corney, J. (2024). Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation. In Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing: Establishing Bridges for More Sustainable Manufacturing Systems: Proceedings of FAIM 2023, June 18–22, 2023, Porto, Portugal, Volume 1: Modern Manufacturing (592-602). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38241-3_67

In complex manufacturing industries that are not fully automated and involve human workers it is important to identify deviations from the planned production schedule and locate bottlenecks for improved efficiency. This is not an easy task as it requ... Read More about Data-driven Discovery of Manufacturing Processes and Performance from Worker Localisation.

Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-Intensive Manufacturing (2023)
Journal Article
Aslan, A., El-Raoui, H., Hanson, J., Vasantha, G., Quigley, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023). Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-Intensive Manufacturing. Sensors, 23(10), Article 4928. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23104928

This paper provides a novel methodology for human-driven decision support for capacity allocation in labour-intensive manufacturing systems. In such systems (where output depends solely on human labour) it is essential that any changes aimed at impro... Read More about Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-Intensive Manufacturing.

Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-intensive Manufacturing (2023)
Dataset
Aslan, A., El-Raoui, H., Hanson, J., Vasantha, G., Quigley, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023). Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-intensive Manufacturing. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2023.3100035

This data contains the worker position datasets (including the event logs) and the source codes of the discrete event simulation that are used in the research article titled "Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-inte... Read More about Using Worker Position Data for Human-Driven Decision Support in Labour-intensive Manufacturing.

Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites (2023)
Conference Proceeding
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2023). Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites. In C. Currie, & L. Rhodes-Leader (Eds.), Proceedings of the Operational Research Society Simulation Workshop 2023 (SW23) (86-95). https://doi.org/10.36819/SW23.010

Rewards for risk taking behaviour by workers (if accidents do not occur) can be realised in the form of increased productivity or worker idle time. However, frequent unsafe behaviours of workers inevitably results in accidents and an associated loss... Read More about Agent based simulation of workers’ behaviours around hazard areas in manufacturing sites.

Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Corney, J., Canavan, M., Quigley, J., & Sherlock, A. (2022). Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements. In Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXV (187-192). https://doi.org/10.3233/atde220589

Training novice production engineers to design manufacturing fixtures is a time-consuming process involving significant input from experienced experts. Motivated by the vision of providing an intelligent support system for general mechanical design,... Read More about Towards Predictive Design: Tracking a CNC Fixture Design Process to Identify the Requirements.

Assessment of Predictive Probability Models for Effective Mechanical Design Feature Reuse (2022)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Quigley, J., Corney, J., Sherlock, A., & Randika, G. (2022). Assessment of Predictive Probability Models for Effective Mechanical Design Feature Reuse. Artificial intelligence for engineering design, analysis and manufacturing : AI EDAM, 36, Article e17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060422000014

This research envisages an automated system to inform engineers when opportunities occur to use existing features or configurations during the development of new products. Such a system could be termed a `predictive CAD system' because it would be a... Read More about Assessment of Predictive Probability Models for Effective Mechanical Design Feature Reuse.

Design as a Marked Point Process (2021)
Journal Article
Quigley, J., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Purves, D., & Sherlock, A. (2022). Design as a Marked Point Process. Journal of Mechanical Design, 144(2), Article 021713. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4052844

Although AI systems which support composition using predictive text are well established there are no analogous technologies for mechanical design. Motivated by the vision of a predictive system that interactively suggests features to designer, this... Read More about Design as a Marked Point Process.

Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases (2021)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Purves, D., Quigley, J., Corney, J., Sherlock, A., & Randika, G. (2021). Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases. Advanced engineering informatics, 48, Article 101261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101261

It has been widely reported that the reuse of previously created components, or features, in new engineering designs will improve the efficiency of a company’s product development process. Although the reuse of engineering components has established... Read More about Common design structures and substitutable feature discovery in CAD databases.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs (2020)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Stuart, S., Sherlock, A., Quigley, J., & Purves, D. (2020). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs. Journal of Mechanical Design, 142(10), Article 101401. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4046435

Many companies offer a range of related products that are constructed using similar components and processes. This enables them to meet customer expectations of product variety while minimising the overheads (e.g. development and manufacturing costs)... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index for Engineering Designs.

A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Maclachlan, R., Wodehouse, A., & Vasantha, G. (2018). A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects. In Design Education: Diversity or Conformity? Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE18)

This paper presents a new philosophy for patent use in student design projects; patents are more valuable when viewed as creative and learning resources rather than as a list of prior art to be considered for infringement. A practical approach to pat... Read More about A New Approach for Patent Use in Student Design Engineering Projects.

A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Sherlock, A., Corney, J., & Quigley, J. (2018). A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index. In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference

The benefits of being able to create a number of product variations from a limited range of components, or sub-assemblies, are widely recognized. Indeed it is clear that companies who can effectively reuse elements of existing designs when creating n... Read More about A Probabilistic Design Reuse Index.

Realising the affective potential of patents: a new model of database interpretation for user-centred design (2018)
Journal Article
Wodehouse, A., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Jagadeesan, A., & MacLachlan, R. (2018). Realising the affective potential of patents: a new model of database interpretation for user-centred design. Journal of Engineering Design, 29(8-9), 484-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2018.1448056

This research sets out a new interpretation of the patent database using affective design parameters. While this resource contains a vast quantity of technical information, its extraction and use in practical design settings is extremely challenging.... Read More about Realising the affective potential of patents: a new model of database interpretation for user-centred design.

The generation of problem-focussed patent clusters: a comparative analysis of crowd intelligence with algorithmic and expert approaches (2017)
Journal Article
Wodehouse, A., Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2017). The generation of problem-focussed patent clusters: a comparative analysis of crowd intelligence with algorithmic and expert approaches. Design Science: An International Journal, 3, Article e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2017.19

This paper presents a new crowdsourcing approach to the construction of patent clusters, and systematically benchmarks it against previous expert and algorithmic approaches. Patent databases should be rich sources of inspiration which could lead engi... Read More about The generation of problem-focussed patent clusters: a comparative analysis of crowd intelligence with algorithmic and expert approaches.

Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., Corney, J., & Wodehouse, A. (2017). Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design. In International Conference on Research into Design (933-944). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_80

Interactions (i.e. modes of operations through which product development knowledge is generated and externalized in the design process) play a vital role in knowledge processes of product development. Intentional or unintentional changes in interacti... Read More about Interactional Differences and Effects Between Collocated and Distributed Design.

The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Wodehouse, A. (2017). The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design. In Design Computing and Cognition '16 (209-226). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44989-0_12

This paper explores the role of patents in engineering design, and how the extraction and presentation of patent data could be improved for designers. We propose the use of crowdsourcing as a means to post tasks online for a crowd of people to partic... Read More about The analysis and presentation of patents to support engineering design.

Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., MacLachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016). Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation. In Proceedings of the 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management for design innovation.

Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Vasantha, G., Wodehouse, A., Corney, J., Maclachlan, R., & Jagadeesan, A. (2016, June). Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation. Paper presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference, Glasgow

Innovation is critical to sustain in prevailing competitive business environments. Industries need effective innovation strategies in-practice to develop and deliver novel products and services swiftly. In order to implement innovation strategies eff... Read More about Industrial challenges in patent management and crowdsourcing patent landscapes for engineering design innovation.

A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model (2016)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2016). A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model. Knowledge and Process Management, 23(2), 91-109. https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1501

Product knowledge emerges from day‐to‐day, ubiquitous interactions executed by engineers. Types of interaction and their associated influence on knowledge activities are often not perceptible, and therefore not captured in current industrial practice... Read More about A Knowledge Flow Model to Capture Unstructured Product Development Processes: A Knowledge Flow Model.

Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. V. A., Ramesh, H. P., Sugavanam, C. M., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2015). Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design. In DS 79: Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Design Creativity, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (217-224)

Although a digital design tool like CAD has a strong influence on creative design, it is merely used in the detail design stage to present the visualized final product in 3D space. Limitations in CAD have led to the great emphasis on employing suppor... Read More about Influences of integrating touch screen smart board and CAD in collaborative design.

Advances in designing product-service systems (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., & Corney, J. R. (2015). Advances in designing product-service systems. Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 95, 429-448

Product-Service Systems (PSS) have emerged as a class of hybrid business models that have evolved particular relevance to enterprises operating in a resource-efficient, circular economy (environments that places an emphasis on sustainable, collaborat... Read More about Advances in designing product-service systems.

A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Agrawal, A., Yadav, P., Upadhyay, C. K., Corney, J. R., Vasantha, G. A., Jagadeesan, A., & Lynn, A. (2015). A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing. In Technological Innovation in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR), 2015 IEEE (33-39). https://doi.org/10.1109/TIAR.2015.7358527

Packing problems on its current state are being utilized for wide area of industrial applications. The aim of present research is to create and implement an intelligent system that tackles the problem of 2D packing of objects inside a 2D container, s... Read More about A novel hybrid intelligence approach for 2D packing through internet crowdsourcing.

Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers (2015)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V., Jagadeesan, A. P., Corney, J. R., Lynn, A., & Agrawal, A. (2016). Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers. International Journal of Production Research, 54(14), 4104-4125. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2015.1102355

Many industrial processes require the nesting of 2D profiles prior to the cutting, or stamping, of components from raw sheet material. Despite decades of sustained academic effort algorithmic solutions are still sub-optimal and produce results that c... Read More about Crowdsourcing solutions to 2D irregular strip packing problems from Internet workers.

The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction (2015)
Journal Article
Bamoallem, B. S., Wodehouse, A. J., Mair, G. M., & Vasantha, G. A. (2016). The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 55(A), 424-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.016

Communication takes place not only through speech, but also through gestures such as facial expressions, gaze, head movements, hand movements and body posture. Although developing rapidly, current communication platforms do not facilitate the types o... Read More about The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction.

Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Vasantha, G. A., Acur, N., & Corney, J. (2015, September). Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case. Paper presented at The Continious Innovation Management Workshop, Enschede, Netherlands

Benefits of crowdsourcing tasks are largely reaped by urban rather than rural workers. Even if rural workers could access these web portals, tasks are in general elementary. This research aims to see whether rural crowdsourcing workers' digital imagi... Read More about Assessment of rural digital imaging and creativity abilities for potential crowdsourcing case.

Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2014). Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers. In L. M. Camarinha-Matos, & H. Afsarmanesh (Eds.), Collaborative Systems for Smart Networked Environments (127-134). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44745-1_12

Laser system industry is a complex network entity that includes laser component manufacturer, laser manufacturer, system integrator, laser job shop, laser process developer and end product manufacturer. Currently this market segment is predominately... Read More about Challenges and opportunities in transforming laser system industry to deliver integrated product and service offers.

Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland (2014)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Acur, N., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014). Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland. International Journal of Social Science & Human Behavior Study, 1(3), 47-52

Various surveys mentioned that the commercial benefits of Internet crowdsourcing are reaped largely by people located in metro areas and smaller cities. The impact of crowdsourcing on the rural population is questionable. The aim of this research is... Read More about Social Implications of Crowdsourcing in Rural Scotland.

Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Jagadeeshan, A., Lynn, A., Acur Bakir, N., Smith, M., & Agrawal, A. (2014). Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India. In F. Rehman, N. Woodfine, & R. Marasini (Eds.), Advance in Manufacturing Technology XXVIII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

Many tasks involving production software that involve spatial reasoning can only produce "good" rather than optimum solutions. It is frequently possible for humans to improve on algorithmically generated solutions computed by CAD/CAM software. The th... Read More about Towards crowdsourcing spatial manufacturing tasks from rural India.

Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Corney, J., Prakash Ramesh, H., Mouli Sugavanam, C., & Chakrabarti, A. (2014). Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design. In F. Rehman, N. Woodfine, & R. Marasini (Eds.), Advance in Manufacturing Technology XXVIII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

Currently many computer-aided multi-modal interaction tools are under development, and some have demonstrated their applications in design. To avoid disruptive transformation from current design tools to multi-modal designing, there is a need for sev... Read More about Usage of gestures along with other interaction modes in collaborative design.

Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Walls, S., Corney, J., & Vasantha, G. (2014). Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers. In F. Rehman, N. Woodfine, & R. Marasini (Eds.), Advance in Manufacturing Technology XXVIII: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Manufacturing Research

The potential of low cost, 3D printing to support distributed manufacture in remote, rural communities has been noted by several observers. However the economic practicality of such proposals has not yet been clearly established and although some ove... Read More about Relative energy consumption of low-cost 3D printers.

IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches (2013)
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Erkoyuncu, J. A. (2013). IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches. In Y. Shimomura, & K. Kimita (Eds.), The Philosopher's Stone for Sustainability (411-416). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32847-3_69

Although the merits of Industrial product-service systems (IPS2) have been widely reported in the literature, the methodologies currently used to design IPS2 are not yet mature in either academia or industry. The objective of this paper is to determi... Read More about IPS2 Design Process: A Comparative Study between Literature and Industrial Approaches.

Computing the incomputable with human processing units (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Corney, J., Vasantha, G. A., Lynn, A., Jagadeesan, A., Acur, N., Smith, M., & Agarwal, A. (2013). Computing the incomputable with human processing units. In Intelligent interactive technologies and multimedia (14-24). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37463-0_2

Initially commercial crowdsourcing services (such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk) were focused largely on providing micro-labor services for tasks such as image labeling and text processing. However it is becoming increasingly apparent that these servic... Read More about Computing the incomputable with human processing units.

Influences of design tools on the original and redesign processes (2013)
Journal Article
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Chakrabarti, A., Rout, B. K., & Corney, J. (2014). Influences of design tools on the original and redesign processes. International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 2(1), 20-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650349.2013.839076

Concept generation plays a vital role in establishing a broader foundation in the design process to create novel products. In the globalized, collaborative, designing scenario, an unambiguous representation of captured ideas to explicate a designer’s... Read More about Influences of design tools on the original and redesign processes.

A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design (2013)
Journal Article
Gokula Vijaykumar, A. V., Komoto, H., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Tomiyama, T., Evans, S., …Williams, S. (2013). A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design. Journal of Remanufacturing, 3(1), 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1186/2210-4690-3-8

Manufacturers aim to design product-service systems (PSS) which integrate services with products to attain sustained competitive advantage from a life cycle perspective. PSS design should be customer-adjusted solutions which are aligned to integrated... Read More about A manufacturing framework for capability-based product-service systems design.

Requirements for Computer-Aided Product-Service Systems Modeling and Simulation (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., Hussain, R., Roy, R., & Corney, J. (2013). Requirements for Computer-Aided Product-Service Systems Modeling and Simulation. In ICoRD'13: Global Product Development (773-784). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1050-4_61

The design of product-service systems (PSS) is a co-production process which involves the manufacturer, customer and suppliers as well as any other stakeholders. This multi-organizational, collaborative environment along with the unique tangible and... Read More about Requirements for Computer-Aided Product-Service Systems Modeling and Simulation.

Servitization in laser job shops : interviews with laser job shops and machine providers (2012)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Williams, S., & Lockett, H. (2012). Servitization in laser job shops : interviews with laser job shops and machine providers. The Laser User Magazine, 65,

Manufacturers often outsource laser cutting to laser job shops which will cut components to fairly tight deadlines and budgets. However, the concept of laser cutting as a way to improve manufacturing output is no longer novel; it has now been 'commod... Read More about Servitization in laser job shops : interviews with laser job shops and machine providers.

Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. A., Chakrabarti, A., & Corney, J. (2012). Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation. In DS 73-1: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity, Volume 1 (127-136)

Concept generation plays a vital role in establishing a broader foundation in the design process to create novel products. In globalized, collaborative, designing scenario, unambiguous representation of captured ideas to explicate designer‘s thoughts... Read More about Influences of Design Tools on Concepts Generation.

Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information (2012)
Conference Proceeding
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., Hussain, R., Cakkol, M., & Roy, R. (2013). Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information. In A. Chakrabarti (Ed.), CIRP Design 2012 (353-366). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4507-3_34

Product-Service System (PSS) provides added value to customers through integrated product and service offerings. Currently, the development of PSS solutions is ad hoc and the roles and involvement of stakeholders at the various stages of PSS developm... Read More about Product-Service Systems Design Using Stakeholders’ Information.

A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data (2012)
Journal Article
Hussain, R., Lockett, H., & Annamalai Vasantha, G. V. (2012). A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data. Computers in Industry, 63(4), 319-327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2012.02.013

Both the Product-Service System (PSS) literature and industry express a need to close the design loop by using product-in-use data to inform PSS Conceptual Design. Nevertheless, how to actually accomplish this is largely unknown. This research makes... Read More about A framework to inform PSS Conceptual Design by using system-in-use data.

A framework for designing product-service systems (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. V. A., Hussain, R., Roy, R., Tiwari, A., & Evans, S. (2011). A framework for designing product-service systems. In DS 68-4: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 11), Impacting Society through Engineering Design, Vol. 4: Product and Systems Design (67-76)

In this competitive globalizing scenario, manufacturers are adopting a strategy of bundling products and services into an integrated solution to create sustainable competitive advantage. Servitizing manufacturers are increasingly transforming their p... Read More about A framework for designing product-service systems.

Conceptual Product-Service System CAD-An Application (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. A., & Roy, R. (2011). Conceptual Product-Service System CAD-An Application. In Interdisciplinary Design: Proceedings of the 21st CIRP Design Conference (46-54)

Product-Service System (PSS) provides an enhanced view about the functional aspects of value creation. Manufacturers are increasingly transforming their whole systems including processes in order to support the provision of PSS throughout its lifecyc... Read More about Conceptual Product-Service System CAD-An Application.

An ontology for product-service systems (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Annamalai, G., Hussain, R., Cakkol, M., Roy, R., Evans, S., & Tiwari, A. (2011). An ontology for product-service systems. In Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems (231-236). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19689-8

Industries are transforming their business strategy from a product-centric to a more service-centric nature by bundling products and services into integrated solutions to enhance the relationship between their customers. Since Product- Service System... Read More about An ontology for product-service systems.

A review of product-service systems design methodologies (2011)
Journal Article
Vasantha, G. V. A., Roy, R., Lelah, A., & Brissaud, D. (2012). A review of product-service systems design methodologies. Journal of Engineering Design, 23(9), 635-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/09544828.2011.639712

Product–service systems (PSS), motivated to fulfil customers’ needs, are seen as good strategies to face today's competitive business environment. The field of PSS research is however not fully mature and many different methodologies are proposed for... Read More about A review of product-service systems design methodologies.

Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry (2011)
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., & Chakrabarti, A. (2012). Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry. In Sustaining Innovation (63-78). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2077-4_5

Collaborative design supports quality innovation in reduced cost and time to market; this is critical to sustain organizations within the current competitive product development landscape. Understanding the knowledge processes that occur through coll... Read More about Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry.

Industrial product-service systems think-tank: establishing long term research directions (2011)
Report
Shehab, E., Tiwari, A., Vasantha, G. A., Lightfoot, H., & Roy, R. (2011). Industrial product-service systems think-tank: establishing long term research directions. Cranfield University

Cranfield University and Rolls-Royce plc designed and developed a one-day ‘Think- Tank’ international workshop to establish the future research direction for Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2). The workshop was held at Cranfield University, UK... Read More about Industrial product-service systems think-tank: establishing long term research directions.

Industry Practices and Challenges in Using Product in Use Data to Inform PSS Conceptual Design (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Hussain, R., Lockett, H., & Vasantha, G. A. (2011). Industry Practices and Challenges in Using Product in Use Data to Inform PSS Conceptual Design. In Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems (242-247). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19689-8_43

Both Product-Service System (PSS) literature and industry express a need to close the design loop by feeding product-in-use data to conceptual design. Nevertheless, how to actually accomplish this for PSS Conceptual Design is largely absent. This pap... Read More about Industry Practices and Challenges in Using Product in Use Data to Inform PSS Conceptual Design.

Problem definition in designing product service systems (2011)
Conference Proceeding
Annamalai Vasantha, G., Roy, R., & Cakkol, M. (2011). Problem definition in designing product service systems. In Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems (105-110). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19689-8_20

In these early stages of PSS research, it is necessary to define a holistic problem definition for designing productservice systems (PSS). In this paper, the current industrial practice of the problem definition within PSS is analyzed and presented.... Read More about Problem definition in designing product service systems.

ISIR: Informed sensitised intelligent response-A PSS conceptual design framework using service characteristics (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Hussain, R. S., Lockett, H., Kingston, J., Alcock, J., & Vasantha, G. (2010). ISIR: Informed sensitised intelligent response-A PSS conceptual design framework using service characteristics. In APMS 2010 International Conference: Competitive and Sustainable Manufacturing, Products and Services

This paper considers two dominant definitions of services in the service literature and then proposes a set of service characteristics which have been derived from Service Dominant Logic. These characteristics are then used to chart the differences a... Read More about ISIR: Informed sensitised intelligent response-A PSS conceptual design framework using service characteristics.

Challenges in product service systems design (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G. V. A., & Rajkumar, R. (2010). Challenges in product service systems design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Manufacturing Research ICMR 2010

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Assessment of design tools for knowledge capture and re-use (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Vijaykumar, A. G., & Chakrabarti, A. (2010). Assessment of design tools for knowledge capture and re-use. In P. Heisig, P. J. Clarkson, & S. Vajna (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes 2010. , (139-150)

No abstract available.

Understanding the knowledge needs of designers during design process in industry (2008)
Journal Article
Vijaykumar, G., & Chakrabarti, A. (2008). Understanding the knowledge needs of designers during design process in industry. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 8(1), Article 011004. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2840776

Product success is substantially influenced by satisfaction of knowledge needs of designers, and many tools and methods have been proposed to support these needs. However, adoption of these methods in industry is minimal. This may be due to an inadeq... Read More about Understanding the knowledge needs of designers during design process in industry.

Taxonomy for Understanding Knowledge Captured in Documents By Designers (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Vijaykumar, G. A., & Chakrabarti, A. (2007). Taxonomy for Understanding Knowledge Captured in Documents By Designers. In DS 42: Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design

In this competitive scenario of product development, product success is substantially influenced by satisfaction of the knowledge needs of designers. In literature many tools and methods are proposed to support satisfaction of these needs. But, adopt... Read More about Taxonomy for Understanding Knowledge Captured in Documents By Designers.

Understanding Patterns of Interaction Between Designers During Design Process (2007)
Conference Proceeding
Vasantha, G., & Chakrabarti, A. (2007). Understanding Patterns of Interaction Between Designers During Design Process. In DS 42: Proceedings of ICED 2007, the 16th International Conference on Engineering Design (503-504)

Collaborative design is particularly important, in this globalize world, in aiding organizations in satisfying customer requirements through high innovation, reduced cost, high quality and lesser time to develop products. Communication is a major fac... Read More about Understanding Patterns of Interaction Between Designers During Design Process.

The impact of cultural aspects on the design process (2004)
Conference Proceeding
Felgen, L., Grieb, J., Lindemann, U., Pulm, U., Chakrabati, A., & Vijaykumar, G. (2004). The impact of cultural aspects on the design process. In D. Marjanović (Ed.), DS 32: Proceedings of DESIGN 2004, the 8th International Design Conference (1475-1480)

Due to increasing globalisation, the development of products is no longer restricted to one place, it is more and more characterised by distributed design teams, who work in different places, time zones or cultures. In order to support intercultural... Read More about The impact of cultural aspects on the design process.

Designers’ perception on information processes
Presentation / Conference
Vasantha, G. A., & Chakrabarti, A. Designers’ perception on information processes. Presented at The 4th International Conference on Research Into Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India

This paper discusses designers’ perception on information processes.