The Mechanical Design Process
Contents
- Why Study The Design Process?
- Introduction
- Measuring The Design Process With Product
- Cost, Quality, And Time To Market
- The History Of The Design Process
- The Life Of A Product
- The Many Solutions For Design
- Problems
- The Basic Actions Of Problem Solving
- Knowledge And Learning During Design
- Design For Sustainability
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- Chapter
- Understanding Mechanical
- Design
- Introduction
Importance Of Product Function, Behavior,
- And Performance
- Mechanical Design Languages
- And Abstraction
- Different Types Of Mechanical
- Design Problems
- Constraints, Goals, And
- Design Decisions
- Product Decomposition
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
- Chapter
- Designers And Design Teams
- Introduction
- The Individual Designer: A Model Of Human
- Information Processing
- Mental Processes That Occur
- During Design
- Characteristics Of Creators
- The Structure Of Design Teams
- Building Design Team Performance
- Summary
- Sources
- Exercises
- On The Web
