Product Design and Development
5th Edition
Published on 16. July 2011
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-07-340477-6 (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 IntroductionChapter 2 Development Processes and OrganizationsChapter 3 Opportunity IdentificationChapter 4 Product PlanningChapter 5 Identifying Customer Needs Chapter 6 Product SpecificationsChapter 7 Concept GenerationChapter 8 Concept SelectionChapter 9 Concept TestingChapter 10 Product ArchitectureChapter 11 Industrial DesignChapter 12 Design for EnvironmentChapter 13 Design for ManufacturingChapter 14 PrototypingChapter 15 Robust DesignChapter 16 Patents and Intellectual PropertyChapter 17 Product Development EconomicsChapter 18 Managing Projects