This Element is an excerpt from From Concept to Consumer: How to Turn Ideas Into Money (9780137137473) by Phil Baker. Available in print and digital formats. A quick, practical, step-by-step overview of today’s winning product development processes, from world-renowned expert Phil Baker. Developing a product is an adventure: a blend of research, engineering, marketing, and intuition. It’s about balancing features, cost, and time to market while never quite knowing what will be your competition or what obstacles you might encounter. The process involves many steps: defining, designing, engineering, testing, validating, and finally manufacturing. But it cannot be done in isolation....
Figure 2.21 Glide ceramic toaster by George Watson. There has been little development of the toaster since the start of the twentieth century. Other appliances have been developed and improved, incorporating new technologies and ...
The integrative methods in the book facilitate problem solving and decision making among people with different disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the current industry trend to perform product design and development in cross-functional ...
REVISED and UPDATED for 2021- NEW EDITOR HAS REMOVED TYPOS.
This major text aims to turn the often haphazard and unstructured product design process into a quality-controlled, streamlined, and manageable procedure.
Reflecting the author's long career as a design engineer, this text will also serve as a practical guide for students working on their capstone design projects.
This updated edition explores recent developments such as additive manufacture and crowd funding, and includes more consumer and lifestyle orientated products for a more product-based focus, supported by a range of new innovative examples ...
Completely revised and updated, the Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering is now presented in four volumes. Keeping the same general format as the first edition, this second edition not only provides more information but makes i
Written primarily for directors and managers of food design and development, food scientists, technologists, and product developers, this book explains all the necessary information in order to help meet the increasing demands for ...
More and more the product becomes the key to competitiveness in the manufacturing industry. Designing and developing products is a complex process that requires a systematic approach. This book addresses...
Treating such contemporary design and development issues as identifying customer needs, design for manufacturing, prototyping, and industrial design, Product Design and Development, 3/e, by Ulrich and Eppinger presents in a...