Operation Management Ch-4:Product Design
Operation Management Ch-4:Product Design
Ch-4:Product Design
• What is product design?
Objectives of product design
Features of a good product design.
Concepts of product design
Steps of product design
What is product design?
• Product design is conceptualization of an idea about a
product and transformation of the idea into a reality.
• To transform the idea into reality a specification about
the product is prepared.
This specification is prepared by considering different
constraints such as production process, customer
expectation, etc.
In product design stage every aspects of the product are
analyzed.
Also final decision regarding the product is taken on the
basis of the analysis. This decision can be any aspect related
to the product, e.g. dimension and tolerances, type of
material for every components, etc.
What is product design?