The design process is the organization and management of people and the information they develop in the evolution of a product.
The success of the design process can be measured in the cost of the design effort, the cost of the final product, the quality of the final product, and the time needed to develop the product.
Cost is committed early in the design process, so it is important to pay particular attention to early phases.
Concurrent engineering integrates all the stakeholders from the beginning of the design process and emphasizes both the design of the product and concern for all processes—the design process, the manufacturing process, the assembly process, and the distribution process.
All products have a life cycle beginning with establishing a need and ending with retirement. Although this book is primarily concerned with planning for the design process, engineering requirements development, conceptual design, and product design phases, attention to all the other phases is important.
The mechanical design process is a problem-solving process that transforms an ill-defined problem into a final product.
Design problems have more than one satisfactory solution.
In problem solving there are seven actions to be taken: establish need, plan, understand, generate, evaluate, decide, and communicate. |
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