Product Design and Value Engineering
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Product Design and Value Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Product Design and Value Engineering (subject code 2181913) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 6 units, covering 51 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2181913)Unit 1 Product Design
- Product life cycles
- Characteristics of Successful Product development
- Design and development of Products
- Types of Design and Redesigns
- Engineering Designs
- Duration and cost of product development
- the challenges of Product development
Unit 2 Product Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
- Methods for designing for manufacturing and assembly
- design for Maintainability
- Design for Environment
- Legal factors and social issues
- Engineering Ethics and Issues of society related to design of products
- Design for safety
- Vision and Illumination design: Climate
- Sound and Vibration
- Product Costing
Unit 3 Product Development Processes and Product Planning
- A Generic development process
- concept development
- the front end process
- adopting the generic product development process
- The Product Planning Process
Unit 4 Product Analysis and Material Selection
- Tools and charts used for product analysis like bill of materials
- gozinto chart
- performance characteristics of materials
- material selection process
- sources of information on material properties
- economics of materials
- evaluation methods for material selection
Unit 5 Identifying Customer Needs
- Customer Satisfaction
- Voice of customer
- Customer Populations
- Types of customer needs
- Customer need models
- Gathering Customer needs: Need Gathering Methods
- Conducting Interviews: Like Dislike Method
- Articulated-Use Method
- Product feel and Industrial Design
- Organizing and Prioritizing Needs: Grouping Interpreted needs
- Affinity Diagram
- Determining need Importance
- Customer use patterns
- Customers need Documentation
Unit 6 Value Engineering
- Value Engineering Function: Approach of Function
- Evaluation of Function
- Determining Function
- Classifying Function
- Evaluation of costs
- Evaluation of Worth
- Determining Worth
- Evaluation of Value
- FAST Diagramming
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