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72251 Product Development
Danish title: Produktudvikling

Type: Å, Language: D
Credit points: 5 point
Previous course: 72151
Offered by: Department of Control and Engineering Design (IKS)
No credit points with: 72151
Prerequisite: 72121.72601 (eller andet PMP)
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13 point scale )
Contact person: Mogens Myrup Andreasen, IKS, Building 421, Tel. +45 4525 4365
Aim: To understand the purpose, goals, content, organization, and methods of product development in a producing company. Know the most important factors that influence the goals: Costs,quality, and lead-time. Be able to use selected methods considering their implementation, training, and use.
Contents: The course treats the following dimensions of product development: - Strategy, business, product planning, staging, structuring the project, and planning. - Activity patterns of product development, its content, and structuring (concurrency, integration, dispositions..). - Organization, teamwork, projects, the product development function and its tasks. - Innovation of the product development organization, the learning organization, performance. - Types of product development, technology management, technology search. - Product development methods for goal formulation,synthesis,reuse, evaluation, documentation,verification,optimization, market analysis, competitor analysis. - Product life oriented development, DFX,product development coordination. - Multiproduct development, variants, familiarity, modularisation. - Multidisciplinary product development, mechatronics. - The human operator, innovation, creativity, attitudes, knowledge, skills.
During the afternoon exercises, specific methods are trained in small projects of two students. A project concerning selected product development topics may be arranged, see the course 72104 Engineering Design Project.