Unit 1 Introduction to Product Design

5 lecture hours

• Significance of product design
• Morphology of design
• product design and development process
• Product life cycle
• Sequential engineering design method
• Challenges of product development
• Need for product Innovation

Unit 2 Product Planning and Project Selection

4 lecture hours

• Identifying opportunities
• Evaluate and prioritize projects
• allocation of resources

Unit 3 Identifying Customer Needs

4 lecture hours

• Gathering of data of customers need
• Interpret raw data in terms of customers need
• organize needs in hierarchy and establish the relative importance of needs

Unit 4 Product Specifications

6 lecture hours

• Introduction to product and target specification
• Establish target specifications
• setting final specifications
• Concept of QFD

Unit 5 Concept Generation – development

5 lecture hours

• Various steps in concept generation
• Activities of concept generation
• clarifying problem
• search both internally and externally
• explore the output

Unit 6 Concept Selection

• concept screening and concept scoring
• methods of selection. 3 7%

Unit 7 Industrial Design

• Assessing need for industrial design
• industrial design process