Since the success of products significantly depends on the quality of product performance, inadequate management of the product design process can lead to improper performance of products that can result in significant long-term business losses. Design for Profitability: Guidelines to Cost Effectively Manage the Development Process of Complex Products presents a design guideline for complex product design and development that enables you to cost-effectively improve the technical performance of your products and consequently improve your competitiveness in the marketplace as well as improve profitability.
The book helps you improve the competitiveness of your organization in the market and eventually improve profitability. It presents a mobile robots design guideline based on an empirical study of the mobile robots design process. This is an unprecedented guideline based on the empirical investigation of the internal aspects of the design process of complex products for cost-effectively enhancing the competitiveness in the market. The book also presents a hybrid lean-agile design paradigm for mobile robots. In addition, it points out key approaches and risks to manage the product development process efficiently.
In designing complex products and integrated systems, industrial designers face a dilemma of cost-effectively striking a balance between product development time and product performance attributes. This book shows how and when value is added in product design and development through identifying statistically the most and least correlated design activities and strategies to product performance attributes. Introducing a new paradigm in the field of engineering design, the book gives you key approaches to efficiently manage the product development process.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Analysis and Modelling of the Product Development Process
Chapter 2 : Dimensions of and Approaches to Managing the Product Development Process
Chapter 3 : Research Methodologies to Understand the Product Development Process
Chapter 4 : Engineering Design Experiments
Chapter 5 : Design Experiments : Description and Outcome
Chapter 6 : Statistical Analysis’ Results on the Experiments’ Outcomes
Chapter 7 : Implications and Conclusions of Research Findings
Chapter 8 : Concluding Remarks and Future Research Directions
Appendix A : Design Management Research Questionnaire on the Integrated Design Project
Appendix B : Design Management Research Questionnaire on the Structural Design Project
Appendix C : Design Activities and Strategies
References
Index
