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Product Design Process
Product Design Process
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Product Design Process

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An illustrated guide to the process of designing and developing new products, from product design brief to volume manufacture. Includes sections on requirements capture, conceptual design, product design engineering, model making and engineering drawing. It also offers a set of creative and analytical tools for manipulating ideas.

49 pages                file size 1.2 MB

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"A well-designed product meets the needs of its stakeholders. These needs may be functional, aesthetic, commercial or political. All activities within the requirements capture phase are geared towards identifying and recording these needs".

A1: Product Design Process: Requirements Capture

  • Process flow chart
  • Product Design Brief
  • Identifying and debriefing stakeholders
  • Writing a Product Design Specification – checklist
  • Product Design Specification format

"Conceptual Design and Design Development (also described as Design Synthesis) are at the core of the product design process and contain the major creative activities".

A2: Product Design Process: Conceptual Design

  • Process flow chart
  • Revolution or Evolution
  • Iteration and the Design Loop
  • Exploring Problem and Solution Spaces
  • Mood boards
  • Sketches and sketch models, CAD sketches
  • Product Design Development
  • GA Drawings
  • Modelmaking
  • Product Cost Estimation

"Product Design Engineering is the critical application of engineering skills to the design concept so as to create a manufacturable product that meets the requirements of the Product Design Spec and addresses the relevant ‘design for’ strategies".

A3: Product Design Process: Design Engineering

  • Process flow chart
  • Engineering sketches and layout drawings
  • Component validation
  • Engineering drawing standards
  • Prototypes, validation and testing
  • Volume production
  • Continuous improvement (Kaizen)

"Break away from straight-line thinking, release creative energy, and bring radical new solutions to old problems". 

A4: Product Design Process: Mind Games

  • Analogy / Solution transfer
  • Bio-mimicry
  • Brainstorming
  • SCAMPER 
  • Optimization tables
  • Hub & Spoke diagrams
  • Fishbone diagrams (Ishikawa diagrams)
  • Lateral Thinking
  • Morphological Analysis

Includes www links to further resources, organizations and suppliers.

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