Integrated Product Design - INDE 7397

Description: To present a generic and practical methodology for integrated product and process development. The methodology provides solution approaches for managing the integrated product development problem from market analysis to the final shipping of product. This course provides the knowledge and skills necessary to manage the integrated design of a product or process. Topics include design creativity, product design categories and processes, generalized design process, identification and translation of customer needs into engineering specifications, Benchmarking, designing for function and quality factors, design for manufacturability, design for assembly, modularity, cost estimating, concurrent engineering.

Text: Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development, by Kevin Otto and Kristin Wood, Prentice Hall, 2001.

Goal: To provide the knowledge, tools and industrial practice for necessary task and responsibilities by various members in a product development team functioning and an integrated form.

Course Contents:

1. Product Development Process Tools
2. Scoping Product Developments: Technical and Business Concerns
3. Understanding Customer Needs
4. Establishing Product Function
5. Product Teardown and Experimentation
6. Benchmarking and Establishing Engineering Specifications
7. Product Portfolios and Architecture
8. Product Architecture
9. Generating Concepts and Selection
10. Concept Embodiment
11. Modeling of Product Metrics
12. Design for Manufacture and Assembly
13. Physical Prototypes, Models and Experimentation
14. Selected Topics

Required Software

B&D Design for Assembly software

Grading

Homework

Midterm

Class Projects

Final Team Project