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Product Design and Development
Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger
Third Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2004.
(Note: Fourth edition will be available in August 2007)

Table of Contents

1

Introduction

2

Development Processes and Organizations

3

Product Planning

4

Identifying Customer Needs

5

Product Specifications

6

Concept Generation

7

Concept Selection

8

Concept Testing

9

Product Architecture

10

Industrial Design

11

Design for Manufacturing

12

Prototyping

13

Robust Design

14

Patents and Intellectual Property

15 Product Development Economics
16 Managing Projects

 

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