Based on the study and analysis of product design evaluation, structure model of product evaluation in stages based on robust design is presented, and the key technologies are studied. Robust design aims to develop a product that satisfies design requirements while ensuring minimal effects of environmental variability on product performance. The different methods of robust design are applied in...

One of the most time consuming activities in new product development is associated with reliability assessment and qualification. This is defined as a process to verify whether the anticipated reliability is indeed achieved under actual life cycle loads for some specified length of time. Reliability assessment and qualification is usually accomplished by testing under accelerated loads to achie...

Multiple-view feature modelling can support applications from various phases of product development, by providing an own view on a product for each of these applications. Each view contains a feature model of the product specific for the application. Current approaches to multiple-view feature modelling only deal with form features. Hence, only the later product developments phases, in which th...

overview about a specific group of users. It is a conglomeration of the analysis results of multiple users in various contexts. The persona use case consists of a description of the user group and the variations depending on the educational status and their context of work (e.g. physician in practice, head physician in a hospital or practice). It also includes impacts of the work environment, r...

In an effort to improve customization for today’s highly competitive global marketplace, many companies are utilizing product families and platform-based product development to increase variety, shorten lead times, and reduce costs. The key to a successful product family is the product platform from which it is derived either by adding, removing, or substituting one or more modules to the platf...

As manufacturing organizations develop e-Business strategies, the product development process is also embracing electronic models where design chains, which are groups involved in sequences of related product design events, play critical roles in the overall Product Life Cycle. However, current distributed and electronic product design environments are not optimized for successful output based ...

This research practically investigates on how to reduce development time, development cost and also improve prototype quality in ceramic production. The researcher used an experimental approach, by first investigating and analysing the conventional method used by ceramics manufacturers in product development. This was achieved with several visits to three ceramic factories in Kelantan, Malaysia...

This research project explores the feasibility of a Cradle to Cradle approach to sustainable product design in New Zealand. A framework for sustainable design was proposed by environmental chemist Michael Braungart and architect William McDonough who suggest that the current paradigm of “cradle to grave” product development is unable to provide a solution to the world’s current ecological crisi...

In this paper, related product functions are determined for a group of approximately 70 consumer products. Using customer need data, a new matrix approach is introduced to identify these relationships. Techniques are then created for determining product similarity. These techniques are clarified and validated through three case studies, including beverage brewers and material-removal products. ...

The development of complicated products needs the collaborative working among cross-organizational and multidisciplinary engineers adopting various geographical distributed design resources (such as CAD/CAE tools and private procedures). Facilitating the information sharing and exchanging among these heterogeneous design resources is the foundation to implement the collaborative product develop...