T. Ulrich, Karl and D. Eppinger, Steven (2024) Product Design and Development Fifth Edition. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data.
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This book contains material developed for use in the interdisciplinary courses on product development that we teach. Participants in these courses include graduate students in en- gineering, industrial design students, and MBA students. While we aimed the book at in- terdisciplinary graduate-level audiences such as this, many faculty teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in engineering design have also found the material useful. Product Design and Development is also for practicing professionals. Indeed, we could not avoid writing for a professional audience, because most of our students are themselves profes- sionals who have worked either in product development or in closely related functions. This book blends the perspectives of marketing, design, and manufacturing into a single approach to product development. As a result, we provide students of all kinds with an appreciation for the realities of industrial practice and for the complex and essential roles played by the various members of product development teams. For industrial prac- titioners, in particular, we provide a set of product development methods that can be put into immediate practice on development projects. A debate often heard in the academic community relates to whether design should be taught primarily by establishing a foundation of theory or by engaging students in loosely supervised practice. For the broader activity of product design and development, we reject both approaches when taken to their extremes. Theory without practice is ineffec- tive because there are many nuances, exceptions, and subtleties to be learned in practical settings and because some necessary tasks simply lack sufficient theoretical underpin- nings. Practice without guidance can too easily result in frustration and fails to exploit the knowledge that successful product development professionals and researchers have accumulated over time. Product development, in this respect, is like sailing: proficiency is gained through practice, but some theory of how sails work and some instruction in the mechanics (and even tricks) of operating the boat help tremendously. We attempt to strike a balance between theory and practice through our emphasis on methods. The methods we present are typically step-by-step procedures for completing tasks, but rarely embody a clean and concise theory. In some cases, the methods are sup- ported in part by a long tradition of research and practice, as in the chapter on product development economics. In other cases, the methods are a distillation of relatively recent and ad hoc techniques, as in the chapter on design for environment. In all cases, the meth- ods provide a concrete approach to solving a product development problem. In our expe- rience, product development is best learned by applying structured methods to ongoing project work in either industrial or academic settings. Therefore, we intend this book to be used as a guide to completing development tasks either in the context of a course project or in industrial practice.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Logistik, Teknologi dan Bisnis > Manajemen Rekayasa S1 |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email [email protected] |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2024 03:46 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2024 07:26 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ulbi.ac.id/id/eprint/2583 |
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