Unit 1 Identifying Customer Needs

6 lecture hours

• 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

Unit 2 Product Design

6 lecture hours

• 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 3 Product Configuration and Design for Function

8 lecture hours

• Design for function techniques
• Function analysis, and function family tree
• Engineering Ethics and Issues of society related to design of products
• Design for safety
• Design Evaluation: Design for manufacturing methodology
• Design for assembly methodology
• Additional Assembly evaluation methods
• Product evaluation: Product design for disassembly
• Evaluation of Product for disassembly aspects in products
• Design for Product maintenance
• Product specifications

Unit 4 Product Development Processes and Product Planning

7 lecture hours

• A Generic development process
• concept development
• the front end process
• adopting the generic product development process
• Product Planning Process
• The challenges of Product development

Unit 5 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 6 Product Architecture and virtual Product Prototyping

6 lecture hours

• Product Architectures type
• Product Modularity and types
• Modular design and methods
• Advance functional methods: Function dependency
• Module heuristics and application
• Introduction to virtual reality
• Design using virtual prototyping
• Application of digital tools
• Introduction to Additive manufacturing

Unit 7 Value Engineering

6 lecture hours

• Value Engineering Function: Approach of Function
• Evaluation of Function
• Determining Function, and Classifying Function
• Evaluation of costs
• Evaluation of Worth
• Determining Worth
• Evaluation of Value
• Value Engineering tools and techniques