INTRODUCTION - DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS –
PRODUCT PLANNING
Characteristics of successful product development to Design and develop products, duration and
cost of product development, the challenges of product development.
A generic development process, concept development: the front-end process, adapting the generic
product development process, the AMF development process, product development
organizations, the AMF organization. The product planning process, identify opportunities.
Evaluate and prioritize projects, allocate resources and plan timing, complete pre project
planning, reflect all the results and the process.
IDENTIFYING CUSTOMER NEEDS - PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS
Hours
Gathering raw data from customers, interpreting raw data in terms of customer needs, organizing
the needs into a hierarchy, establishing the relative importance of the needs and reflecting on the
results and the process. Specifications, establish specifications, establishing target specifications
setting the final specifications.
CONCEPT GENERATION - CONCEPT SELECTION - CONCEPT TESTING
The activity of concept generation clarify the problem search externally, search internally,
explore systematically, reflect on the results and the process, Overview of methodology, concept
screening, concept scoring, caveats. Purpose of concept test, choosing a survey population and a
survey format, communicate the concept, measuring customer response, interpreting the result,
reflecting on the results and the process.
PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE - INDUSTRIAL DESIGN - DESIGN FOR
MANUFACTURING
Meaning of product architecture, implications of the architecture, establishing the architecture,
variety and supply chain considerations, platform planning, related system level design issues.
Assessing the need for industrial design, the impact of industrial design, industrial design process,
managing the industrial design process, is assessing the quality of industrial design. Definition,
estimation of manufacturing cost, reducing the cost of components, assembly, supporting
production, impact of DFM on other factors.
PROTOTYPING - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS - MANAGING
PROJECTS
Prototyping basics, principles of prototyping, technologies, planning for prototypes, Elements of
economic analysis, base case financial mode,. Sensitive analysis, project trade-offs, influence of
qualitative factors on project success, qualitative analysis. Understanding and representing task,
baseline project planning, accelerating projects, project execution, postmortem project
evaluation