Design Chapters - Summary

Product design

For businesses to remain active and having market, it needs to design new products every

time to attract and maintain customers. There are some companies which have been involved in

the product designing of various things. The likes of companies like; The Ford Motor Company,

the Raychem Corporation, the Microsoft Corporation and the Xerox corporation among others.

During the product design, there are some of the product development task which needs to

be attained for full achievement of new things in the firm. The methodologies used in this chapter

have been selected for they stimulate creativity and help solve problems, consider each element

for best results and examines all impacts of the designed devices made.

Product development process is the whole process needed to bring entre new set of thing

in the market. Design process is the technical activities that help meet advertising and business

case idea. There are some types of designs and the redesigns which are used in product designing.

Desig-ns can be; original, adaptive or variant design which can be used in various technologies.

Redesigning is usually based on designing already existing things.

Engineering design can be grouped into; electrical, mechanical, industrial, food science,

furniture designs, material designs and aerospace among others. Model centric and systems

approach are used for designing in this chapter. Product design applies the same concept we keep

learning and repeating in school and also in life.

Modern product development process applies new strategies in the designing of new things

in today’s world. Typical stage gate engineered product development is explained in complex ways

and has various applications which are used differently in different companies. Product

development process is very vital in engineering and has various steps. The step involved are; fist

you comprehend the opportunity, develop a concept and then you implement the concept. The

stage gate development process has varied degrees of completion during the designing process.

Understand the opportunity has four activities which include developing a vision, market

chance analysis; customer needs analysis and competitive analysis. Developing a concept has fours

activities which include; portfolio planning, functional modelling, product architecture

development and concept engineering. Implementing a concept, it has activities like embodiment

engineering, physical and analytical engineering, design for X and robust design. Reverse

engineering and redesign methodology can be grouped into; redesign, modelling and analysis and

reverse engineering. An example of product redesign development is Xerox Corporation.

Design EDGE product development process consists of understanding the product task,

conceptual design, layout design, final design and tooling design. There are some theories of

development which have been recorded in history with inverts coming from various countries in

different years.

In conclusion, product development is very vita in the engineering field and learner shuls

always sue new ideas. Reverse engineering and redesigning is a forum for learning and

experimenting by upcoming engineers.

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