TY - JOUR
T1 - The prototype taxonomised
T2 - Towards the capture, curation, and integration of physical models in new product development
AU - Jones, David
AU - Gopsill, James
AU - Real, Ric
AU - Snider, Chris
AU - Felton, Harry
AU - Kent, Lee
AU - Goudswaard, Mark
AU - Gebler, Owen Freeman
AU - Hicks, Ben
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s)
PY - 2024/2/28
Y1 - 2024/2/28
N2 - The management of data related to prototypes created during new product development is seen as a beneficial yet challenging activity. While attempts have been made to understand prototypes and their context in a range of use-cases, there is a gap in the understanding of the data that captures a prototype's context and physical form. This paper highlights this gap, and addresses it through the development of a new taxonomy. Using existing literature, a body of domain-specific terms, and the combined experience of the nine authors, a robust and systematic taxonomy development process was followed. A comparison of the developed and pre-existing taxonomies, and an illustrative example, is used for evaluation. The taxonomy is fully presented along with a description of each of the 53 dimensions, and it is intended to be the foundation upon which methods and processes can be developed to improve the capture, curation and integration of physical prototypes in new product development.
AB - The management of data related to prototypes created during new product development is seen as a beneficial yet challenging activity. While attempts have been made to understand prototypes and their context in a range of use-cases, there is a gap in the understanding of the data that captures a prototype's context and physical form. This paper highlights this gap, and addresses it through the development of a new taxonomy. Using existing literature, a body of domain-specific terms, and the combined experience of the nine authors, a robust and systematic taxonomy development process was followed. A comparison of the developed and pre-existing taxonomies, and an illustrative example, is used for evaluation. The taxonomy is fully presented along with a description of each of the 53 dimensions, and it is intended to be the foundation upon which methods and processes can be developed to improve the capture, curation and integration of physical prototypes in new product development.
KW - Design
KW - Information management
KW - Knowledge management
KW - New product development
KW - Prototyping
KW - Taxonomy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179130770&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compind.2023.104059
DO - 10.1016/j.compind.2023.104059
M3 - Article
SN - 0166-3615
VL - 155
JO - Computers in Industry
JF - Computers in Industry
M1 - 104059
ER -