72251 Product Development
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Danish title: Produktudvikling
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Language: Danish
Credit points: 5 |
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Type: | Open University Language: Danish |
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Previous course: 72151
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Prerequisite: 72121.72611.72614.72621 (eller andet PMP)
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Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
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Examination: Evaluation of report(s) (13-scale)
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Department: Department of Control and Engineering Design
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Aim: To understand the purpose, goals, content, organization, and methods of product development in a manufacturing company. To know the most important factors that influence the goals: Costs,quality, and lead-time. To be able to use selected methods considering their implementation, training, and use.
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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.
Small projects, which will be carried out in groups of two student will provide training in specific methods learnt on the course. A project from selected product development topics may be arranged. See the course 72401 Engineering Design Project.
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