Integrated Product and Process Design and Development: The Product Realization Process, Second Edition

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The second edition of a bestseller, this book discusses an integrated product and process design that has been successfully used to conceptualize, design, and rapidly product competitively-priced quality products. It examines the overlapping, interacting, and iterative nature of the engineering aspects that impact the product realization process. A detailed introduction to the creation of high quality products, the new edition explores the role of innovation, requirements engineering, smart materials, different rapid prototyping methods, and life-cycle cost determination, to name just a few. The book delineates proven methods that have been used successfully to create products.
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Product Development at the Beginning of the TwentyFirst Century
1
Chapter 2 The Integrated Product and Process Design and Development Team Method
19
Chapter 3 Product Cost Analysis
35
Chapter 4 Translating Customer Requirements into a Product Design Specification
73
Chapter 5 Product Functional Requirements and Functional Decomposition
91
Chapter 6 Product Concepts and Embodiments
113
Chapter 7 Design for Assembly and Disassembly
145
Chapter 8 Material Selection
155
Chapter 9 Manufacturing Processes and Design
205
Chapter 10 Design for X
249
Chapter 11 Product and Process Improvement
269
Material Properties and the Relative Cost of Raw Materials
299
Index
303
Back cover
335
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Magrab, Edward B.; Gupta, Satyandra K.; McCluskey, F. Patrick; Sandborn, Peter

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