Product Design Methods and Practices

"Focuses on functional, aesthetically pleasing, mechanically reliable, and easily made products that improve profitability for manufacturers and provide long-term satisfaction for customers. Offers concrete, practical insight immediately applicable to new product design and development projects."

List of contents

Considerations of good design: the product design environment; design for profitability; improving early design decisions; principles of good design; total cost reduction; design process improvement. Conceptual design: customer focused concept design; the rational building block method; formal concept selection methods; model-driven design. Design for efficient manufacture: process-driven design; part elimination strategies; assembly design; tolerance design; component design; manufacturability improvement method. total cost reduction: elimination and simplification strategies; standardization and rationalization; internal standard components. Design for quality: design improvement methods; failure mode and effects analysis; design review checklist; references.

About the author

Stoll, Henry W.

Product details

• Authors: Henry W. Stoll, Stoll Henry W.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9780824775650
• ISBN: 978-0-8247-7565-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Weight: 635 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; SCIENCE / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Research & Development, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Industrial / commercial art & design, Research & development management, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Research and development management, Industrial chemistry and manufacturing technologies, Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies