Introduction to Product Design Process, Types of design, design vs. analysis; fundamentals of engineering design, influence of design on cost and quality; product life-cycle; Design and Planning: Problem statement; customer needs, product design specifications, Quality Function Deployment, Product design planning; project plan; Gantt chart; critical path method (CPM), phases of engineering design; Conceptual and Detail Engineering Design, Establishing product functions; functional decomposition, concept creation, concept selection, Computer aided design (CAD) modeling, design simulation, manufacturing documentation, engineering drawings, case studies in mechatronics design; Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), Factors influencing process selection; fabrication guidelines; design for manufacturing, design for assembly; Concept Selection and Testing, Defining a selection criterion, finalization of design, Rapid prototyping and testing, performance matrices; Design for Reliability and Sustainability, Reliability and failure; risk assessment; preliminary hazard analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, Green design; design for zero waste; design for disassembly; Human factors in Design, Principles of user-friendly designs; human factors engineering; Intellectual property and patents; Product Development Economics and Project Management.
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