UNIT 1:
Strategic importance of Product development
Integration of customer, designer, material supplier Behaviour analysis
Integration of process planner, Competitor and customer – Behaviour analysis
Prompting customer understanding
Involve customer in development and managing requirements
Organization – process management and improvement
Plan and establish product specifications
UNIT 2:
Reflect on the solutions and processes
UNIT 3:
Implications – Product change – variety
Component standardization – product performance
Manufacturability – product development management
Establishing the architecture – creation
Clustering – geometric layout development
Fundamental and incidental interactions
Related system level design issues
Secondary systems – architecture of the chunks
Creating detailed interface specifications
UNIT 4:
Robust design, Integrating CAE, CAD, CAM tools
Integrate process design – Managing costs
Management of the industrial design process
Investigation of customer needs – conceptualization – refinement
Simulating product performance and manufacturing processes electronically
Need for industrial design – impact – design process
Investigation of for industrial design – impact – design process
Technology driven products – user – driven products
Assessing the quality of industrial design
