Product Design and Development
5th Edition
Published on 1. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-07-131681-1 (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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Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-0-07-131681-1 (9780071316811)
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Schweitzer Classification
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.
Content
1 Introduction 2 Development Processes and Organizations 3 Opportunity Identification 4 Product Planning 5 Identifying Customer Needs 6 Product Specifications 7 Concept Generation 8 Concept Selection 9 Concept Testing 10 Product Architecture 11 Industrial Design 12 Design for Environment 13 Design for Manufacturing 14 Prototyping 15 Robust Design 16 Patents and Intellectual Property 17 Product Development Economics 18 Managing Projects