Product Design and Development (Paperback, International ed)

Covering contemporary design and development issues, such as identifying customer needs, design for manufacturing, prototyping and industrial design, this text presents a set of step-by-step product development methodologies aimed at bringing together the marketing, design and manufacturing functions of an enterprise.;Designed for graduate and senior undergraduate business, engineering and industrial design courses, this book uses integrative methodologies to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making among people with different disciplinary perspectives, reflecting the current industry trend to perform product design and development in cross-functional teams.