Industrial Design Engineering : Inventive Problem Solving

Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process. Industrial design engineering is an industrial engineering process applied to product designs that are to be manufactured through techniques of production operations. Excellent industrial design engineering programs are essential for the nation’s industry to succeed in selling useful and ecologically justifiable and usable products on a market flooded with goods and services. This unique text on industrial design engineering integrates basic knowledge, insight, and working methods from industrial engineering and product design subjects. Industrial Design Engineering: Inventive Problem Solving provides a combination of engineering thinking and design skills that give the researchers, practitioners, and students an excellent foundation for participation in product development projects and techniques for establishing and managing such projects. The design principles are presented around examples related to the designing of products, goods, and services. Case studies are developed around real problems and are based on the customer’s needs.

Industrial engineering is a field with a large and extensive presence in our nation's manufacturing and service industries. From this new book, researchers, practitioners, and students will get an easy access to a wide range of effective industrial engineering tools and techniques in a concise format that will provide in-depth coverage emphasizing new thinking paradigms, tools, techniques, and models for industrial engineering problem solving.

• Applies creative thinking to improve the aesthetics and usability of industrial products as well as the skills to design and refine everyday products
• Creates ideas and transforms concepts into a product definition that satisfies customer requirements with new technology for Industrial and Risk Engineering
• Addresses a wide range of practical, creative and problem-solving skills, scientific, and professional working methods in new product development
• Develops manufactured products that are functional, ergonomic, beautiful, and well-engineered by optimizing function, value, and appearance
• Presents quantitative modeling of industrial enterprise systems including the latest developments for industrial design tools and techniques
• Captures creativity, communicative methods, leadership skills, and the ability to take social and ethical responsibility for today’s industrial design challenges

Preface

Chapter 1 : Enduring Sonnet : Evolving Industrial Design Engineering "A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought."
Chapter 2 : Monte Carlo Simulations : Would an Industrial Engineer Flip a Coin like a Poet?
Chapter 3 : Safety, Reliability, and Risk Management : "All the Astronauts Landing on Mars are Engineers; We are Bringing them Home Safely…"
Chapter 4 : Design for Environmental Risk Engineering
Chapter 5 : Cellular Manufacturing : Mitigating Risk and Uncertainty
Chapter 6 : System Risk Engineering
Chapter 7 : Contingency Planning, Logistics, and Lean Manufacturing : Rolling out the Storm
Chapter 8 : Risk Communications and Continuous Improvement : Poetic Process Engineering
Chapter 9 : On the River of Industrial Design Engineering : Flow of Poetic Thinking

Index