The development of a new product is a very exiting process. Working parallel on aspects like market demand, technology, design, ergonomics and other aspects makes product design a task for a multidisciplinary team. This multidisciplinary approach helps us to resolve the contradictions of interests that appear during product design, and harmonise them into a successful product.
Using the right methods during each stadium of the project structures the way of work, so that projects can progress further in a fast and effective way without losing track on some essential components.
We subdivide the development methods as follows:
- customer driven design: designing a product that a future client will buy. Typical methods are VA (Value Analysis) and QFD (Quality Function Deployment)
- quality driven design: products without mistakes or childhood diseases. Typical methods are FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) and 'rough design' methods (Design of Experiments, Parameter Design, Tolerance Design, Reliability)
- life cycle driven design: keeping total costs under control. Typical methods are: DFM (Design for Manufacturing), DFA (Design for Assembly), DFR (Design for Recycling) and DFD (Design for Disassembly)
- platform- and modular design: when the product variation increases, the development costs should be limited. Using module designs, designers have a complete solution, which meets the exact requirements of the client’s expectations. Designing a product platform means to design a common basis for commercialising a whole range of products the next few years on the basis of the platform. For example: in the automotive sector one part would be used in different models of cars.
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