Product Development                       
A Structured Approach to Consumer Product Development, Design, and Manufacture               

                Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved        
                                              
Author(s): Anil Mital, Anoop Desai, Anand Subramanian and Aashi Mital                                
ISBN: 978-0-7506-8309-8

Design and manufacture of new products has always been a team effort; but lately the team has been expanding. No longer can companies afford to keep the product design team working in isolation from the production and manufacturing team, not to mention the financial and accounting team For today's product development team has to comprise an integrated group of professionals working from the very beginning of new product planning on through design creation and design review and then on to manufacturing planning and cost accounting. Even when a product is conceived and goes into preliminary design, thought must be given to how easily or not it will be manufactured, how difficult or not it will be to assemble and disassemble for the end-use-customer and how much it will cost in materials, production and maintenance. This new book will guide both engineering professionals as well as graduate level students in mechanical and industrial engineering and general manufacturing management in how to develop such a holistic, integrated team approach to product development. Written by leading academic authorities'who also have extensive industrial experience'this instructional reference work can be used in the traditional classroom, in professional continuing education courses or for self-study.

Audience
Professional:

Industrial engineers, Mechanical engineers; Manufacturing engineers; Product Designers; General Business managers charged with product development and manufacture

Academic:
Graduate students in industrial and mechanical engineering; Graduate students in MBA programs concentrating in manufacturing management

                        Contents               
                                       

• PrefacePart IChapter 1: Introduction: The Manufacturing Enterprise WheelChapter 2: Developing Successful ProductsChapter 3: Product Design: Structure and ProcessPart IIChapter 4: Design Review: Designing to Ensure QualityChapter 5: Consideration of MaterialsChapter 6: Selection of Manufacturing Processes and Design ConsiderationsChapter 7: Designing for Assembly/DisassemblyChapter 8: Designing for MaintenanceChapter 9: Consideration of UsabilityChapter 10: Designing for FunctionalityPart IIIChapter 11: Manufacturing Cost EstimationChapter 12: Assessing the Market DemandChapter 13: Preliminary Design for the Manufacturing FacilityAppendicesBibliographyIndex