Chapter Summary

Planning is an important engineering activity.

Progressive companies have a generic product development process that serves as a basis for planning each product development activity.

Design projects commonly fall into one of four types: variation of an existing product, improvement of an existing product, development of a new product for low-volume production, and development of a new product for high-volume production.

Design teams may have representatives from many different disciplines, and they may be organized in one of five different structures.

The use of prototypes and models is important to consider during planning.

There are five planning steps: identify the tasks, state their objectives, estimate the resources needed, develop a sequence, and estimate the cost.

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