The challenges of the marketplace are met by product developers in two ways: development of innovative products and reducing product costs. Cost reduction alone is not a substitute for innovation. Cost-oriented product development is systematical engineering work, which requires an interdisciplinary approach, and needs to be efficient and effective. The costs that are of interest here are those...

Decisions during NPD process have impact on 80-90% of a product’s life cycle sustainability performance. The objective of this study is to investigate the integration of sustainability into product design, mainly focusing on the environmental aspects. The investigation has been carried out by means of a questionnaire developed based on a 3-pillar framework outlining the essential elements for s...

There is little in-depth research that can assist designers to use culture as a catalyst for designing innovative product within Botswana’s context. This is supported by evidence from the literature which indicate that from an African perspective, there is no solid theoretical framework which can assist designers to consciously integrate users’ culture in designing products. This challenges des...

Abstract Background: The unique, yet complex, new product development (NPD) process represents one of firms’ most significant operations that impose high weightage onto its profitability margins and market reputation. Objectives: object the research is to identify critical success factors (CSFs) a in Dubai firms. Methods/Approach: paper uses literature as basis for identifying development, whic...

the aim of this research is to investigated the effect of food product health claims in consumers evaluation and new products development.  this research attempts to develop quality standards in health food industry done for new product of soya enriched bread. the relationship between factors influencing the evaluation of health claims and new product performance will be investigated. in this c...

An extensive literature review has resulted in the consolidation of key success factors for the new product development (NPD) process. A subsequent analysis has also resulted in the identification of over 40 tools designed to assist various NPD team members with different steps along the NPD path, ultimately improving the likelihood of new product success. This paper will discuss five themes de...

For most ¯rms, new product development is the engine for growth and pro¯tability. A ¯rm's new product success depends on its ability to manage the product development process in a way that employs scarce resources to achieve the goal of the ¯rm as well as the speci¯c project's objectives. Simple and measurable performance metrics have been proposed and applied in order to monitor and compensate...

Project Based Learning (PBL) is a powerful tool for teaching that helps students to get the best out of their effort in terms of the learning results obtained, even more in studies like university degree studies in engineering. A way of getting even more of this is by means of the adaptation of methodologies from different knowledge areas, because this allows the launch of innovative ways of wo...