ABSTRACT

"Focuses on functional, aesthetically pleasing, mechanically reliable, and easily made products that improve profitability for manufacturers and provide long-term satisfaction for customers. Offers concrete, practical insight immediately applicable to new product design and development projects."

chapter 1|6 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|12 pages

The Product Design Environment

chapter 3|19 pages

Design for Profitability

chapter 4|9 pages

Improving Early Design Decisions

chapter 5|18 pages

Principles of Good Design

chapter 6|13 pages

Total Cost Reduction

chapter 7|13 pages

Design Process Improvement

chapter 8|19 pages

Customer Focused Concept Design

chapter 9|12 pages

The Rational Building Block Method

chapter 10|9 pages

Formal Concept Selection Methods

chapter 11|9 pages

Model-Driven Design

chapter 12|26 pages

Process-Driven Design

chapter 13|15 pages

Part Elimination Strategies

chapter 14|17 pages

Assembly Design

chapter 15|22 pages

Tolerance Design

chapter 16|24 pages

Component Design

chapter 17|20 pages

Manufacturability ImprovementMethod

chapter 18|24 pages

Elimination and SimplificationStrategies

chapter 19|13 pages

Standardization Design

chapter 20|9 pages

Standardization and Rationalization

chapter 21|13 pages

Internal Standard Components

chapter 22|28 pages

Design Improvement Methods

chapter 23|11 pages

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

chapter 24|9 pages

Design Review Checklist