Product Design and Development (Int'l Ed)
5th Edition
Published on 16. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-07-108695-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Persons
Karl Ulrich (Philadelphia, PA) is a faculty member at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Steven Eppinger (Cambridge, MA) teaches at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Steven Eppinger (Cambridge, MA) teaches at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management at MIT.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Development Processes and Organizations
Chapter 3 Opportunity Identification
Chapter 4 Product Planning
Chapter 5 Identifying Customer Needs
Chapter 6 Product Specifications
Chapter 7 Concept Generation
Chapter 8 Concept Selection
Chapter 9 Concept Testing
Chapter 10 Product Architecture
Chapter 11 Industrial Design
Chapter 12 Design for Environment
Chapter 13 Design for Manufacturing
Chapter 14 Prototyping
Chapter 15 Robust Design
Chapter 16 Patents and Intellectual Property
Chapter 17 Product Development Economics
Chapter 18 Managing Projects
Chapter 2 Development Processes and Organizations
Chapter 3 Opportunity Identification
Chapter 4 Product Planning
Chapter 5 Identifying Customer Needs
Chapter 6 Product Specifications
Chapter 7 Concept Generation
Chapter 8 Concept Selection
Chapter 9 Concept Testing
Chapter 10 Product Architecture
Chapter 11 Industrial Design
Chapter 12 Design for Environment
Chapter 13 Design for Manufacturing
Chapter 14 Prototyping
Chapter 15 Robust Design
Chapter 16 Patents and Intellectual Property
Chapter 17 Product Development Economics
Chapter 18 Managing Projects