Product Design and Development - Science topic

A major key is to understand basic electronic fundamentals. This would provide a foundation for new products.

The YouTube video clips about electronics, labeled NDAcademy, provide that foundation.

The website "Electronics.FoxPing.com" provides links to those YouTube video clips.

The standard for develoment is the ADDIE Model- Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate.

However, the "best" methodology would require you to use each step to its highest potential with assistance from the "best" people for each area as your resources.

For instance...

Analysis Phase. The purpose of this phase is to determine the need. To do this, you need to identify:

Then, once you have these sorted, you will have to relate them to the target audience in a bit more detail by identifying the specific Target Audience(s) your product is intended for and how your solution/product will influence them.

For this, you will need to identify...

Target Audience. Who will use it specifically? This about positions, roles, responsibilities, basic demographics, etc.

Improvements. Where are they currently and where do you want them to be (be very specific)? If it's training you're creating, this could be their related knowledge, skills, and abilities (current KSAs and target KSAs). If it's a product you are developing, list what the target audience is doing currently (and inefficiently) compared to how they will be doing this through your improvement/solution.

For the last part, design your plan for how you will get your audience to the desired outcome by creating categories. These will be your objectives.

Objectives. Objectives will act as waypoints for the journey. It is recommended to use SMART objectives here as that will provide the most detail. This is one of the most vital areas because it focuses your design phase, giving it targets to reach.

Measurement. Next, how will you measure success? Think about the tools you could use to measure phases of implementation and what that measurement looks like. How accurate/to what degree is considered successful? What timing is involved. (Side note, a good SMART objectives will already have this information).

Obstacles. And lastly, list any obstacles that could get in the way of your proposed solution. Your obstacles will generally fall under two main categories (the target audience and your development) with multiple subcategories. For the former, think about pre-requisite knowledge/skills the target must have and their accessibility to your solution. For the latter, think about your content/product development and what could inhibit you.

Once all of this is complete you are ready for the next phase- Design.

Sounds like a lot, right? But don't worry. With the right Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) involved to help you with the need and content, you can pretty much design anything in any field. I've personally created solutions for areas as varied as Ford, the Girl Scouts of America, Amazon, Fulton Financial, Mircale Ear, and other major institutions in education, corporate tax, manufacturing, fashion, and small business. Each one used this process; each one was successful.

If you have any questions or need some resources to help get you started, please don't hesitate to reach out.

-Shawn

Shawn R. Lowe, PhD

Instructional Technology

As we all know that " Necessity is the mother of invention" . During World War II , whole world was facing scarcity in each and every field. then OPERATIONS RESEARCH taken birth. Like that COVID-19 , created disruption in all the functions of industries. So, each and every functions of industries can be tackle by Industrial Engineers and provide remedy through analytical approach.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), operations research (OR) and modelling, supply chain (SC), robotics and renewable energy (RE).

Hi Maryam,

It depends on the type of packaging component being designed (material, manufacturing process, printing method, etc.) and the development phase (early concepts, refinement, control documentation, etc.). For example:

- Rhinoceros (for concept exploration and dielines)

- SolidWorks, Catia, Inventor (for assemblies and part design refinement)

- KeyShot (for rendering)

- Esko Suite

- ArtiosCAD (for dielines)

- Studio (for rendering)

- CAPE (for palletization, truck load, etc)

- Adobe CC (Illustrator, Photoshop) (for artwork and mapping)

Design fixation is intrinsic to the designer's personality, capabilities, propensities, etc. and is independent of the immediate and present external world. All tools at some point become limited (and limiting) and they are eventually extended by the demands of those designers who are not anchored by them in their design creativity. In contrast to the "tool extenders" others may be trapped by comfort and success in using a specific tool, and often channel their creative trajectory by what the tool affords them. For example, following Koen Van Turnhout's example, most instructors in product design challenge students to keep sketching with the assumption that sketching is less limiting then CAD, at least in the morphological aspects. It is not always the case, but mostly true, at least with students at earlier stages. Same with Arduino, Fritzing may be more liberating, but then at some point someone will run out of canvas there and will need to extend to another tool (e.g. VHDL equivalent).

Dear colleagues,

First of all thank you very much for your interest. When I quickly glanced at your profiles, I saw that you had a great engineering background, which will provide a very important contribution and richness for our possible collaborative works. From a broad perspective, we investigate the fundamental influences of technological developments on the field of product design in terms of the final product, design process and designer’s approach.

The basic question we are asking is that:

Is it possible to ensure that technological developments (in such fields as production, materials, microelectronics, CAD, CAM, AR-VR, etc.) make the new product development process more designer-centered, or not?

We have a prospect that the dominance of the designer in NPD will increase with technology and we have some ongoing studies in this direction such as product performance pre-testing with the CAD softwares that allows basic stress analysis before production, the influence of using CAD tools in early stages of product design process on designers’ creativity and productivity, using rapid prototyping as a means of decision making, the effects of cloud computing on design profession. We would be pleased to construct new areas of research together with a similar perspective we have.

Best regards.

I think that you can work in "The seven losses". Little time ago appears an eighth losses about the human resources losses. This concepts are very interesting for work.

Not directly working on space suites but a simulation to test ergonomic and usability factors is run by the Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Applied Aviation Sciences Department, as the previous commentator suggested: https://daytonabeach.erau.edu/about/labs/suborbital-operations-science/index.html

As it says on their website, potential research topics are e.g. astronaut spatial and temporal perception, mission control operations and communications, pressure suit ergonomics, safety processes and procedures, and suborbital flight energy management. 

Dava Newman (MIT) is working on space suits as well (http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/dnewman/bio.html) with interesting experiments on : http://web.mit.edu/aeroastro/www/people/dnewman/bio.html

A project documentation of a space suit project by the PTC Creativity Lab – probably a student project – can be found here: http://www.ptc.com/File%20Library/Community/Academic%20Program/PTC_Creativity_Lab_Spacesuit_Project_Explore_Guide.pdf

8 years ago Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) of the Texas A&M University System startet in a collaborative project about space suits, but I do not know if they still do: http://orbitaloutfitters.com/orbital-outfitters-selected-for-nasa-space-suit-work/

If you are not eager to work or study in one of the universities or research centres, but more interested in designing and developing concepts for space suites you could also have a look at experimental setups and simulations as well as smart textiles. 

Wow!!! techie's such a wealth of answers. I embrace you all. Thank you.

Thanks very much madam

I tried to measure the corporate environment in terms of innovativeness in concrete sector. Look at the paper

Please  let me share a simple technique I have applied successfully in the writing of project proposals.

Project plans are written to address needs according to the level necessity.

Having 3 pressing needs means 3 project plans, within which new ideas are journaled  hoping for future use.

You can hence, research for information, concentrate on the more important and then focus one with the highest projected output.  for satisfaction.

Thank you, Prof. Fitsilis.

On this specific case , we have confirmed the possibility of a conflict about PI role and different expectation about it by stakeholders.

What can we do to solve PI's conflicted objectives, which are not solved by strategist through a decision method and consultive approaches? This scenario reveals a deadlock.

This is my investigation point.

For a while, I wonder about the possibility to define an individual meaning of these PIs in each perspective (so called, abstraction), then after, constructing (or translating) in a concrete representation in each Perspective.

Regards!

AC

Definetely,  I agree with the suggestions . Also you can see some examples of  interactive and supra-active research in the website of my lab. www.hitlabnz.org. 

Kindly find the attachments for EFA and CFA.....

The publication below (Vision, Trends, Gaps) may add some further perspective on the enabling role of methods and tools of virtual product creation for the product life cycle.

In the 2030 Agenda of sustainable development that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly of September 2015, the relevant goal is #SDG12 - Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns under which also policy initiatives regarding circular economy fit (see the link to a wiki page).

Regarding innovation, it is useful to distinguish incremental, architectural, modular and radical "modes" (as explained under the third tab in the link about knowledge conversion).

Dynamic oscillatory tests can certainly be used to differentiate between two commercial products.  If the fingerprint (narrow range) is similar, it is important to establish whether the footprint (broader range) is similar as well or in other words, whether the two products are similar no matter what measurement conditions are used.  One way would be to take dynamic oscillatory frequency sweep data covering a wide range of frequencies at different temperatures and then creating a master curve using the time-temperature superposition principle.  A method to develop unified curves based on the Melt Flow Index (MFI) of polymer melts has been described in the books A. V. Shenoy and D. R. Saini, Thermoplastic Melt Rheology and Processing, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York (1996) and Aroon V. Shenoy, Rheology of Filled Polymer Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands (1999). This may prove useful to show the differences between the two commercial products.  It may happen that the rheological data is similar in some narrow ranges under specific conditions but do not match when broader ranges and conditions are considered.

Dear Ms. Keemei, I am afraid I should say that your question cannot be answered without knowing about the context of designing a product. Even planning a product and designing a product are very different activities .... Kind regards, I.H.

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Thank you so much Napoleon and Mark for the feedback. Really appreciate and it helps me a lot :D God bless...

Morphology is used in two ways: (1) as an analytical tool to investigate the composition of an existing product, and (2) as a creative and synthesizing tool for designing a new product. Designing has two major divisions: (a) for artistic designing, with emphasis on appearance and ergonomics, and (b) for engineering designing, with emphasis on the (internal and cross-boundary) workings of a technical product, ref Eder W.E. US-China Educational Review A, April 2013, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 259-280. Prescriptive design methods are mainly applicable to synthesizing engineering products (2b), often include use of a morphological matrix, and are most useful for novel products, or when an intuitive approach does not yield a good solution, refs Eder, W.E. and Hosnedl, S., Design Engineering: A Manual for Enhanced Creativity, Boca Raton: CRC-Press, 2007, and Eder, W.E. and Hosnedl, S., Introduction to Design Engineering: Systematic Creativity and Management, Leiden, NL: CRC Press/Balkema, 2010. The working group around Vladimir Hubka has published 23 case examples of worked conceptual designing, each including an application of a morphological matrix for synthesizing an engineering product (2b), see ref Eder, W.E., ‘Case Example of Systematic Design Engineering – Linear Friction Test Equipment’, paper 1002, in Proc 3rd International Conference on Design Engineering and Science – ICDES 2014, Japan Society for Design Engineering, 31 Aug - 3 Sept 2014, Pilsen, Czech Republic.

Yes, Norris and Zwicky did pioneering work on this subject. Many others have contributed, but I think that our approach is the one based on scientific logic, and a (complete as possible) Theory of Technical Systems, ref Hubka and Eder, Theory of Technical Systems, Berlin/Heidelberg and New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988. Hope my comments help.

Dear Arhan,

These papers may be helpful:

1- Bilgen, B., & Günther, H. O. (2010). Integrated production and distribution planning in the fast moving consumer goods industry: a block planning application. Or Spectrum, 32(4), 927-955.

2- Francis, M. (2006). Stage model research in the UK fast moving consumer goods industry. International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, 9(4), 351-368.

3- Grant, D. B., & Banomyong, R. (2010). Design of closed-loop supply chain and product recovery management for fast-moving consumer goods: the case of a single-use camera. Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, 22(2), 232-246.

You can get the similar or apropriate answer by searching the keyword in the GOOGLE SCHOLAR page. Usually you will get the first paper similar to your keyword.

From my experience, this way will help you a lot. If you still have a problem, do not hasitate to let me know.

Kind regards, Dr ZOL BAHRI - Universiti Malaysia Perlis, MALAYSIA

Apart from being feasible, novel and beneficial to customer, the evaluation of new products must consider how profitable and well aligned with organizational strategy the new product is. The quality evaluation of new products should also consider the cost of creating such quality and how beneficial it is to the organization. The following areas are significant additions

1. Alignment with organizational strategy in terms of vision and mission

2. Value addition to overall business in terms of profitability

3. Product life cycle

4. Market perception

5. Aesthetics / Branding possibilities

6. Product Shelf life

For sure there will be many more factors to measure for proper decision on what the results of new product evaluation methods should be. However, the appropriate method will determine on the organization concerned.

An APK file is just a zip file of the Android application package, which includes some XML files, various resources (e.g. images for buttons/icons etc.) and the compiled Dalvik VM executable image, classes.dex. The file format for this is documented here:

You *can* decompile the bytecode into a fairly decent approximation of the original Java code; see the discussion here:

Try looking at BS7000.

Some Triz curses also teach how to apply the Triz methodology, in my view this is another name for case based reasoning.

Regards

Paul

YOUR RESEARCH DIMENSION IS NOT CLEAR YET HOWEVERY, I have recommended the Jouke Casper suggestion

I agree all elements of decision making such as strategic, tactical and operational are important during the different stages of new product development. The question is what to use and when to use it during a life-cycle development of a product.

I have shed some light on the latter question in this paper. Let me know what do you think?

Brian

I am not sure what product development works in UK, But in USA, I have found the e-Manuafcturing strategies very useful.

Details can be found an downloaded from the following link

Conference Paper: Knowledge-based Enterprising (KBE) Strategy for Lean Product Development (LPD)

Brian Prasad

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Keynote Talk at The 27th International Conference on CAD/CAM, Robotics and Factories of the Future Conference (CARS & FoOF 2014), �22-24 July 2014, London, UK, Middlesex University’s London campus at Hendon; 07/2014

Thank you Axel for your very good contributions. Really, this answer was in my mind but you coined your answer first. I admire your systematic way of thinking on the problems. You are a model for the young scientists. Wish you success.

Hi Zoran,

in Germany 3D simulation is a very popular research topic. In the last years a lot of tests regarding the optimization of measurements template and simulation of clothes using 3D body models were put into execution. The Hohenstein Institute is the most important institution in this field in Germany. They took measurements of 13.000 men, women and children using the 3D-body-scanner technology in a standing and sitting position in the “Size Germany Project” and created a large database of measurements and 3D-body models. Another research topic is the perfect fit of garments considering special target groups like wheelchair user.

I put a few articles together.

They could be an interesting partner in this research.

Best regards

Melanie

Hi laurent, Thanks for your reply.

However, PTM(s) by Arizona state univ. with above links only provides MOSFETs and FinFETs but not FDSOI PTM/PDK. Anyways, I have done some research on finding FDSOI PTMs and would like to share here which probably be beneficial for others as well who are looking for it.

There are three PTMs available for FDSOI:

1) BSIM-IMG (University of California at Berkeley):

Comments:

a). Believed to have FDSOI PTM models based on BSIM group latest publications.

b). Not sure if it is Charge based or Surface-potential based

2) HiSIM (Hiroshima University)

Comments:

a) FDSOI and is PSP based model

3) PSP-SOI (Arizona State University)

Comments:

a) FDSOI and is PSP based model

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Usman

Sure. You can look at this from a chronological perspective as well as a philosophical perspective. The challenge is that many of the terms used never had solid definitions, i.e. not everybody meaning the same thing used the same term, and not everybody using the same term meant the same thing. However, you could say that in design there was first a development to focus on environmental aspects dominantly (up to mid 1990s), an approach often termed 'design for environment'. Next step was to balance environment with economic considerations, often termed ecodesign. Next step was also including social issues (roughly from 2000 on-wards) resulting in 'Design for sustainability'. All three are basically resulting from an ideal to 'do more with less', i.e. eco-efficiency, which was the industry response to the Brundtland definition of sustainable development. Parallel to the eco-efficiency development there were different philosophical developments, such as the natural step, cradle-to-cradle and biomimicry. At the moment the momentum seems to be with 'circular economy' which aims to combine many of these earlier approaches and insights.

Hello,

our research team has experiences from industry cases. Most successful cases are when the workshops are facilitated. We use cause-effect mapping capturing the most important product parameters and how they interact.These are connected to customer needs.

The engineering knowledge changes from tacit to explicit in these sessions also. This enables the company to validate the design reasoning for their products. Then the company has better ability to manage the design and the properties of the artefact i.e. the product.

Mainly, you will find two key strategies: developing engineering and product development marketing. Another perspective that tries to balance appears, is the action of industrial design (design), which should summarize the objectives from within (materials and technologies) and from outside the industry (and consumer markets).

In short, we will be publishing a paper that takes this reality or assumptions.

Hi! I just started to work in this field.

In Germany it is the same - even though we do not have speed limit. The reason is the range and the peak power the battery can stand over longer time

Well there is a benchmark for industry,government and acadameia and is relative to what exactly are we talking about, for example the big 3 universities Stanford, Harvard adn MIT account for almost 100 billion dollar businesses or more perhaps.They are quite powerful. Beyond innovation framewroks there is lobbying it its peak and that is due to the image as well as potential at these places.Industry too thrives here and well government is in favour when there so much money making , it cant deny.

Just to give you an example i have attached a document to show you the power of Stanford University in Business as such.

Important project is the institutional framework.

Probably dependency 80:20 (Pareto) can be found in all social processes.

In my research I measured the 20:80 (ex ante) : (ex post) cost.

There is good news, though!

I found a chemical engineering student who is helping me combine polythene and some chemicals with sawdust to create a composite we hope to develop for other applications.

More suggestions are welcome as we keep our fingers crossed on these.

Thanks again, everyone.

I have AutoCAD WS also, but is it possible to open for example .itp, .stp, .catpart with some kind of application?