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PREFACE
CHAPTER 1 Why Study the Design Process?
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Measuring the Design Process with Product Cost, Quality, and Time to Market
1.3 The History of the Design Process
1.4 The Life of a Product
1.5 The Many Solutions for Design Problems
1.6 The Basic Actions of Problem Solving
1.7 Knowledge and Learning During Design
1.8 Design for Sustainability

CHAPTER 2 Understanding Mechanical Design
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Importance of Product Function, Behavior, and Performance
2.3 Mechanical Design Languages and Abstraction
2.4 Different Types of Mechanical Design Problems
2.5 Constraints, Goals, and Design Decisions
2.6 Product Decomposition

CHAPTER 3 Designers and Design Teams
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Individual Designer: A Model of Human Information Processing
3.3 Mental Processes That Occur During Design
3.4 Characteristics of Creators
3.5 The Structure of Design Teams
3.6 Building Design Team Performance

CHAPTER 4 The Design Process and Product Discovery
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Overview of the Design Process
4.3 Designing Quality into Products
4.4 Product Discovery
4.5 Choosing a Project

CHAPTER 5 Planning for Design
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Types of Project Plans
5.3 Planning for Deliverables The Development of Information
5.4 Building a Plan
5.5 Design Plan Examples
5.6 Communication During the Design Process

CHAPTER 6 Understanding the Problem and the Development of Engineering Specifications
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Step 1: Identify the Customers: Who Are They?
6.3 Step 2: Determine the Customers Requirements: What Do the Customers Want?
6.4 Step 3: Determine Relative Importance of the Requirements: Who Versus What
6.5 Step 4: Identify and Evaluate the Competition: How Satisfied Are the Customers Now ?
6.6 Step 5: Generate Engineering Specifications: How Will the Customers Requirement Be Met?
6.7 Step 6: Relate Customers Requirements to Engineering Specifications: How to Measure What?
6.8 Step 7: Set Engineering Specification Targets and Importance: How Much Is Good Enough?
6.9 Step 8: Identify Relationships Between Engineering Specifications: How Are the Hows Dependent on Each Other?
6.10 Further Comments on QFD

CHAPTER 7 Concept Generation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Understanding the Function of Existing Devices
7.3 A Technique for Designing with Function
7.4 Basic Methods of Generating Concepts
7.5 Patents as a Source of Ideas
7.6 Using Contradictions to Generate Ideas
7.7 The Theory of Inventive Machines, TRIZ
7.8 Other Important Concerns During Concept Generation

CHAPTER 8 Concept Evaluation and Selection
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Concept Evaluation Information
8.3 Feasibility Evaluations
8.4 Technology Readiness
8.5 The Decision Matrix——Pughs Method
8.6 Product, Project, and Decision Risk
8.7 Robust Decision Making

CHAPTER 9 Product Generation
9.1 Introduction
9.2 BOMs
9.3 Form Generation
9.4 Materials and Process Selection
9.5 Vendor Development
9.6 Generating a Suspension Design for the Matin 2008 Mount Vision Pro Bicycle

CHAPTER 10 Product Evaluation for Performance and the Effects of Variation
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Monitoring Functional Change
10.3 The Goals of Performance Evaluation
10.4 Trade-Off Management
10.5 Accuracy, Variation, and Noise
10.6 Modeling for Performance Evaluation
10.7 Tolerance Analysis
10.8 Sensitivity Analysis
10.9 Robust Design by Analysis
10.10 Robust Design Through Testing

CHAPTER 11 Product Evaluation: Design For Cost, Manufacture,Assembly, and Other Measures
11.1 Introduction
11.2 DFC——Design For Cost
11.3 DFV Design For Value
11.4 DFM——Design For Manufacture
11.5 DFA Design-For-Assembly Evaluation
11.6 DFR Design For Reliability
11.7 DFT and DFM——Design For Test and Maintenance
11.8 DFElDesign For the Environment

CHAPTER 12 Wrapping Up the Design Process and Supporting the Product
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Design Documentation and Communication
12.3 Support
12.4 Engineering Changes
12.5 Design for End of Life
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