Product Design and Development

by Ulrich, Karl; Eppinger, Steven

• ISBN13: 9780073101422
• ISBN10: 0073101427
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Summary

Treating such contemporary design and development issues as identifying customer needs, design for manufacturing, prototyping, and industrial design, Product Design and Development by Ulrich and Eppinger presents in a clear and detailed way a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise. The integrative methods in the book facilitate problem solving and decision making among people with different disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the current industry toward designing and developing products in cross-functional teams.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Development Processes and Organizations

Product Planning

Identifying Customer Needs

Product Specifications Appendix Concept -Scoring Matrix Example

Concept Generation

Concept Selection

Concept-Screening Matrix Example

Concept-Scoring Matrix Example

Concept Testing Appendix Estimating Market Sizes

Product Architecture

Industrial Design

Design for Manufacturing

Material Costs

Component Manufacturing Costs

Assembly Costs

Cost Structures

Prototyping

Robust Design Appendix Orthogonal Arrays

Patents and Intellectual Property

Trademarks

Advice to Individual Inventors

Time Value of Money and the Net Present Value Technique

Modeling Uncertain Cash Flow Using Net Present Value Analysis

Managing Projects

Appendix

Design Structure Matrix Example

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