Product Design and Development
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The official GTU curriculum for Product Design and Development (subject code DI05000311) as prescribed for COMPUTER · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 21 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 (DI05000311)Unit 1 Product Design Fundamentals & Value Engineering
- Product Design Fundamentals 1.1 Product design – definition
- need and importance 1.2 Product development process – stages and overview 1.3 Difference between product design and product development process 1.4 Product Life Cycle (PLC) 1.5 Product policy of organization 1.6 Selection of profitable product 1.7 Introduction to Intellectual Property / Patents 1.8 Product analysis (with suitable examples) 1.9 Case studies of successful / unsuccessful product development Value Engineering 1.10 Introduction to Value Engineering 1.11 Value = Function / Cost concept 1.12 Types of functions: Primary
- Unnecessary 1.13 Functional analysis (FAST – basic idea) 1.14 Advantages and applications of Value Engineering
Unit 2 Customer Needs & Concept Development
- 2.1 Customer needs identification methods 2.2 Quality Function Deployment (QFD) / House of Quality 2.3 Pugh Concept Selection Matrix w.e.f 2026-27 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Mechanical Engineering / Mechanical (CAD/CAM) / Mechatronics / Automobile Engineering / Fabrication Technology Subject Code: DI05000311 Subject Name: Product Design and Development Page No : 3 of 5 2.4 Market survey and benchmarking 2.5 Product specifications 2.6 Concept generation: Brainstorming
- Morphological analysis 2.7 Concept selection methods
Unit 3 Product Design Methods and Tools
- 3.1 Introduction to product design tools 3.2 Role of CAD in product design 3.3 Introduction to Robust Design 3.4 Introduction to FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis) 3.5 Modular vs
- Integral architecture 3.6 Concurrent Engineering: Concept
- Applications and advantages 3.7 Reverse Engineering: Concept
- Applications and advantages 3.8 Introduction to Use of AI in product design and Development
Unit 4 DFX Principles & DFMA Guidelines
- 4.1 Introduction to Design for X (DFX): DFM, DFA, Design for Cost
- Design for Reliability
- Design for usability and user experience (UX)
- Design for Sustainability / Green Design
- Design for Recycling / Disassembly
- 4.2 DFMA – concept and importance 4.3 General design guidelines (reduce parts
- simplification) 4.4 Design for casting
- injection molding
- welding 4.5 Design for manual assembly and efficiency metrics 4.6 Material selection for manufacturability 4.7 Case studies and DFMA applications 4.8 Basic cost considerations: Product costing and pricing basics
Unit 5 Ergonomics, Prototyping & Product Realization
- 5.1 Industrial design basics 5.2 Aesthetics in product design 5.3 Ergonomics and anthropometry w.e.f 2026-27 http://syllabus.gtu.ac.in/ Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Mechanical Engineering / Mechanical (CAD/CAM) / Mechatronics / Automobile Engineering / Fabrication Technology Subject Code: DI05000311 Subject Name: Product Design and Development Page No : 4 of 5 5.4 Design for safety and comfort 5.5 Proof of Concept
- Need and types of prototyping 5.6 Rapid prototyping – concept
- advantages and applications 5.7 Working principle of FDM, SLA, SLS 5.8 Design testing and validation
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