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Chapter Summary| Products must be developed from concepts through concurrent development of form, material, and production methods. This process is driven by the functional decomposition discussed in Chap. 7.Form is bound by the geometric constraints and defined by the configuration of connected components.The development of most components and assemblies starts at their interfaces, or connections, since for the most part function occurs at the interfaces between components. Product development is an iterative loop that requires the development of new concepts, the decomposition of the product into subassemblies and components, the refinement of the product toward a final configuration, and the patching of features to help find a good product design. |
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