Innovation through Design Strategy: Case Study of SMEs in Bandung

The rise of business in the city of Bandung has caused the intensity of competition to be very high. Small-scale businesses are very difficult to survive especially facing companies that have larger economies of scale. Innovation can be one way for SMEs to compete. Previous research stated that implementing a design strategy can trigger opportunities to create innovation in the company. This study examines how design is used by Soca companies to produce innovation as a strategy to survive in competition. Soca is an SME in Bandung that produces glasses with wood materials. As a startup, Soca is considered successful in penetrating the market amid intense competition. This study uses a qualitative method with a descriptive case study approach. Primary data is obtained through document review, in-depth interviews and observations. The results of this study are expected to be a reference for how design strategies are used by SMEs to generate innovation Keywords Innovations, SMEs, Design Strateg

Pressure equalisation as design strategy for watertightness

Due to rising energy prices and a higher ecological awareness there is a growing attention for energy efficiency and sustainability in building construction. New concepts and techniques for well insulated and airtight buildings require adapted construction methods for weathertightness. This research project aims at developing design guidelines for new building envelope systems concerning weathertightness. Most building envelope systems rely on pressure moderation to achieve a good weathertightness. By separating the airtightness plane from the water shedding surface a drained cavity can be pressure moderated to limit the amount of water that enters the construction. A better understanding of those phenomena makes way for more rapid evolution in energy efficient and sustainable building envelope design

A design strategy for autonomous systems

Some solutions to crucial issues regarding the competent performance of an autonomously operating robot are identified; namely, that of handling multiple and variable data sources containing overlapping information and maintaining coherent operation while responding adequately to changes in the environment. Support for the ideas developed for the construction of such behavior are extracted from speculations in the study of cognitive psychology, an understanding of the behavior of controlled mechanisms, and the development of behavior-based robots in a few robot research laboratories. The validity of these ideas is supported by some simple simulation experiments in the field of mobile robot navigation and guidance

A Design Strategy for Deadlock-Free Concurrent Systems

When building concurrent systems, it would be useful to have a collection of reusable processes to perform standard tasks. However, without knowing certain details of the inner workings of these components, one can never be sure that they will not cause deadlock when connected to some particular network. Here we describe a hierarchical method for designing complex networks of communicating processeswhich are deadlock-free.We use this to define a safe and simple method for specifying the communication interface to third party software components. This work is presented using the CSP model of concurrency and the occam2.1 programming language

Design strategy and process optimization for reactors with continuous transport of an immobilized enzyme

In order to operate a process which uses immobilized enzymes at constant conversion and constant capacity, the refreshment of the enzyme must be continuous. In this paper, two reactor types with continuous refreshment of the biocatalyst are discussed: the stirred tank and the multistage fluidized bed. A method is presented for dimensioning a reactor in such a way that the costs for the conversion of substrate to product are minimized. These costs are calculated as the sum of the biocatalyst consumption and overall reactor costs.\ud \ud In contrast with the stirred-tank reactor, the multistage fluidized bed can be operated at a non-uniform temperature. For the glucose isomerase process, an optimal temperature gradient results in a small reduction in the biocatalyst consumption (±5%). It is concluded that, in general, a temperature gradient will only favour the economy of processes with relatively expensive biocatalysts.\ud \ud Compared with conventional reactor types, such as the continuous stirred-tank reactor and the fixed-bed reactor, the multistage fluidized-bed reactor can improve the economy of an enzyme-catalysed reaction significantly

Search for a Design Strategy

This is a search for the hidden design strategy in the plan pattern of the Skintebo Neighbourhood. What design principles, besides the given standards, have architects and planners employed when they locate play spaces? I use the Space Syntax Analysis to read the imprints. Different hypotheti- cal design strategies are tested