Integrated Product Design and Development

Code:

EM0075

Acronym:

DIP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Manufacturing and Automotive Engineering

Instance: 2009/2010 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Materials and Technological Processes Group
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Mechanical Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIEM	27	Syllabus since 2006/2007	5	-	6	56	160

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The course aims to:


• Create confidence in your own ability to create a new product.

• Raise awareness of the role of the customer and multiple functions/stakeholders in creating a new product

• Develop the ability to coordinate multiple, interdisciplinary tasks, in order to achieve a common objective.

• Enhance team working skills.

• Study and become familiar with the use of different tools and techniques to develop systematically and methodically innovative products giving careful thought to the role to be played by the various functional expertises,both during the development phase an also on commercial launch and after sales servicing .

Program

SESSION 1: INTRODUCTION


Session Objectives:
- To introduce you to the topic of new product/service design and development
- To overview the course goals, logistics, basic concepts and context of new service and product development
- To describe the assignments, cases and topics in the course

SESSION 2: PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AND ORGANISATION


Session Objectives:

- Characterize the generic development process
- Define the characteristics of the new product/service development process
- Learn the organizational aspects of new service and product development and choose the organizational structure

SESSION 3: SERVICE AND PRODUCT PLANNING AND STRATEGY
Friday, September 21

Session Objectives:

- Characterize business strategy, market objectives and assessment of technology developments
- Plan the development process to match the business strategy of the firm
- Define the Mission Statement

SESSION 4: IDENTIFY CUSTOMER NEEDS
Session Objectives:

- Characterize the customer needs identification process
- Learn the tools and techniques for customer involvement
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SESSION 5: GENERATING PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS

Session Objectives:

- Learn how to translate customer needs into product specifications
- Prepare list of metrics
- Set ideal and marginally target specifications


SESSION 6: GENERATION OF PRODUCT/SERVICE CONCEPTS

Session Objectives:

- Learn methods that facilitate the concept generation process
- Which concepts and solutions can satisfy the identified customer need?

SESSION 7: CONCEPT SELECTION AND TESTING


Session Objectives:

- Learn how the team can choose the best concept among the concepts generated
- Learn how the decision making process should be documented


SESSION 8: PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE

Session Objectives:

- Learn what is product architecture
- Learn how the product architecture can influence the product development process

SESSION 9: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY – Invited Guest
Session Objectives:

- Learn what is intellectual property and types of patents
- Learn where to find help to apply for a patent

SESSION 10: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN – Invited Guest
Session Objectives:

- Introduction to the discipline of industrial design
- Learn how industrial design function is integrated within the product development process

SESSION 10-13 : DISCUSSION OF ASSIGNMENTS
Session Objectives:
- Discuss the project development progress

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course adopts a project based learning approach. Teams of 4-6 students, preferably with different backgrounds, will work through an exercise of need identification and development of a product/service that meets that need.
The effort involved in this course is equivalent to 6 ECTS credit units (representing a total of 180 hours, dedicated to teamwork on the project ,case study discussion and lecture attendance ) .
During the introduction class the project-generation process will be explained. Basically, you will be asked to form your own small groups, brainstorm one or more product ideas, and converge on one.
COURSE MATERIALS

• Ulrich & Eppinger Product Design and Development, McGraw-Hill, 2008, fourth edition

The book by Ulrich & Eppinger will be the basic textbook of the course.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Eligibility for exams

NA

Calculation formula of final grade

Grades will be based on the following elements:
10% - Class participation
30% -Team Assigments presentation
60% - Final Presentation and Report

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

NA

Classification improvement

NA