Course Description
Due to globalization and the increase in technology development worldwide, creating highly innovative products and processes is the only way to ensure that an organization remains competitive. In this course, a unique and highly structured approach for the product realization process is presented so that participants develop a comprehensive knowledge on how to successfully create innovative new products. Participants learn specific strategies for optimizing every phase of the product realization process for any industry. The instructor walks through actual design projects and highlights methods to overcome challenges related to product development including: team formation, requirements definition, concept generation, concept selection, prototype generation, design for manufacturing, testing and market penetration. Participants work on actual new product concepts and learn how to apply methodologies that guarantee innovative product outcomes in a complex, highly nonlinear process.
Course Outline
Introduction and Overview
Course Objectives
Global Landscape of Technology and Innovation
Overview of Product Realization Process
How new techniques were developed
Product Development Exercise
Creating Successful Teams
Team Building Exercise
Understanding teams
Roles of team members
Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Project Planning
Role and Rules for project planning
Project planning tools
Project Planning Exercise
Developing Project Requirements
Understanding internal requirements
Unique product orientations
Customer needs analysis
Concept Generation
What is a design concept?
Potential Failures
Five Step Approach to generating innovative concepts
Concept generation exercise
Concept Selection
Potential Failures
Concept Screening
Concept Scoring
Concept Selection exercise
Design for Manufacturing
Understanding product realization from business perspective
Minimize costs while maximizing performance
Prototyping
Role of prototyping in design innovation
Prototyping processes
When to generate prototypes
Testing
Developing robust test plans
Role of failure in innovative design
Penetrating the Market
Making products to gain market niche
Ensuring product safety and reliability
Student Design Projects
Throughout the course, students work in teams on actual design projects implementing the methods being taught.
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