Introduction:
Characteristics of successful product development, Design and development of products, duration and cost of product development, the challenges of product development.
Development Processes and Organizations:
A generic development process, concept development: the front-end process, adopting the generic product development process, the AMF development process, product development organizations, the AMF organization.
Product Planning:
The product planning process, identify opportunities. Evaluate and prioritize projects, allocate resources and plan timing, complete pre project planning, reflect all the results and the process.
Identifying Customer Needs:
Gather raw data from customers, interpret raw data in terms of customer needs, organize the needs into a hierarchy, establish the relative importance of the needs and reflect on the results and the process. Product Specifications: What are specifications, when are specifications established, establishing target specifications, setting the final specifications. Concept Generation: The activity of concept generation, clarifies the problem, search externally, search internally, explore systematically, reflect on the results and the process.
Concept Selection:
Overview of methodology, concept screening, and concept scoring,
Concept Testing:
Define the purpose of concept test, choose a survey population, choose a survey format, communicate the concept, measure customer response, interpret the result, reflect on the results and the process.
Product Architecture:
What is product architecture, implications of the architecture, establishing the architecture, variety and supply chain considerations, platform planning, related system level design issues.
Industrial design:
Assessing the need for industrial design, the impact of industrial design, industrial design process, managing the industrial design process, assessing the quality of industrial design.
Design for Manufacturing:
Definition, estimation of manufacturing cost, reducing the cost of components, assembly, supporting production, impact of DFM on other factors.
Prototyping:
Prototyping basics, principles of prototyping, technologies, planning for prototypes.
Product Development Economics:
Elements of economic analysis, base case financial mode,. Sensitive analysis, project trade-offs, influence of qualitative factors on project success, qualitative analysis.
Managing Projects:
Understanding and representing task, baseline project planning, accelerating projects, project execution, postmortem project evaluation.