Specify the full development process, and its deliverable. Undertake to design prototypes, test and validate prototypes against protocol, design and validate production process for the best prototype, slowly scale up production as necessary for product and market testing
Product Architecture
• The process by which a customer need is developed into a product design.
• Solid architecture improves speed to market, and reduces the cost of changing the product once it is in production.
• Product components are combined into “chunks,” functional elements are assigned to the chunks, and the chunks are interrelated with each other.
• Solid architecture improves speed to market, and reduces the cost of changing the product once it is in production.
• Product components are combined into “chunks,” functional elements are assigned to the chunks, and the chunks are interrelated with each other.
Product Architecture and Product Platforms
• Product architecture development is related to establishing a product platform.
• If chunks or modules can be replaced easily within the product architecture, “derivative products” can be made from the same basic platform as technology, market tastes, or manufacturing skills change.
• If chunks or modules can be replaced easily within the product architecture, “derivative products” can be made from the same basic platform as technology, market tastes, or manufacturing skills change.
Assessment Factors for an Industrial Design
Prototype Development
• Comprehensive Prototype: complete, fully-functioning, full-size product ready to be examined by customers.
• Focused Prototype: not fully functioning or developed, but designed to examine a limited number of performance attributes or features.
–Examples: a crude, working prototype of an electric bicycle; a foam or wood bicycle to determine customers’ reactions to the proposed shape and form.
• Focused Prototype: not fully functioning or developed, but designed to examine a limited number of performance attributes or features.
–Examples: a crude, working prototype of an electric bicycle; a foam or wood bicycle to determine customers’ reactions to the proposed shape and form.