Customer-focused product design strives to meet changing customer requirements with new product features. This book discusses ways to assess changing demands and sources, and delves into what is needed to successfully manufacture goods in a demanding market. It reviews proven methods for assessing customer need. Then, after showing how changing needs impact the reengineering of products, it explains how needed change can be efficiently achieved. It details how IT advances and technology support customer-focused product development, discusses cutting-edge mass customization principles that maximize cost-effective production, and illustrates how to implement a web-based product design environment.
Preface
Editor Bios
Contributors List
Chapter 1 : Sustainable Design
Chapter 2 : Cellular Manufacturing Systems
Chapter 3 : An Overview of Computer-Aided Design
Chapter 4 : Selection of Parameters for CAD-VR Data Translation
Chapter 5 : A Semi-Integration System of CAD and Inspection Planning of Standard Manufactured Features
Chapter 6 : Tumor Geometrical Deformation Modeling
Chapter 7 : Product Variety and Manufacturing Complexity
Chapter 8 : A Simulation-Based Methodology for Manufacturing Complexity Analysis
Chapter 9 : Optimizing Supply Chain Network Design
Chapter 10 : Shutdown Maintenance Scope of Work Assessment Model (SWAM) : Model for Reducing Shutdown Maintenance Costs and the Loss of Production at Continuous Process Industries
Chapter 11 : Machine Failure Time Detection through Product Defects
Index