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University of Idaho - Idaho Falls, ID

PTTE 404/504 - Product Design and Development, Fall 2004

The class textbooks are:

  1. Product Design and Development by Ulrich and Eppinger (2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 2000) http://www.ulrich-eppinger.net/.
  2. Value Engineering:  A Plan for Invention by Richard J. Park (1999, CRC Press)
  3. Also:  Please visit Ken Crow's New Product Development Body of Knowledge on the web at http://www.npd-solutions.com/bok.html#anchor2114450 .  This is an extensive web site full of all of the techniques discussed in this class, and then some.

Reading Packet Table of Contents

READING TITLE SOURCE
Course Syllabus Eppinger
Two Sample Project Proposals Not Available to U of I classes
Winners 2001: The Best Product Designs of the Year Business Week (Annual Design Awards), June 25, 2001.
How to Listen to Consumers Sally Solo, Fortune, January 11, 1993.

Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)

From: thinkcycle.media.mit.edu/.../ resource overview_of_triz_glenn_mazur_/TRIZ_Overview Glenn_Mazur.pdf
The Dilemma of Improving Quality In New Product Development Larry R. Smith, Boris Zlotin, and Alla Zusman, First presented at the Altshuller Institute Conference "TRIZCON99" March 7-8, 1999

Customer-Focused Development With QFD

From:  Kenneth Crow - New Product Development Body of Knowledge, DRM Associates, Inc.
Improving Product Development with Value Analysis/Value Engineering J. R. Wixson, 1987 Conference Proceedings, Society of American Value Engineers, May 1987
Turning Designers into Managers Business Week, December 3, 2001, pp. 28D-28H.
Design for Assembly in Action Peter Dewhurst and Geoffrey Boothroyd, Assembly Engineering, January 1987

Achieving Target Cost/Design-To-Cost Objectives

From:  Kenneth Crow - New Product Development Body of Knowledge, DRM Associates, Inc.
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis From:  Kenneth Crow - New Product Development Body of Knowledge, DRM Associates, Inc.
The Taguchi Approach to Parameter Design Diane M. Byrne and Shin Taguchi, “The Taguchi Approach to Parameter Design” Quality Progress, December 1987.
Boost Your Marketing ROI with Experimental Design Eric Almquist and Gordon Wyner, Harvard Business Review, vol. 79, no. 9, pp. 135-141, October 2001, reprint #R0109K.
Introduction to Patents and Other Intellectual Property David Pressman, Patent It Yourself, 3rd Edition, Nolo Press, Berkeley, CA, 1991, chapter 1.
Braun AG: The KF 40 Coffee Machine Karen J. Freeze, HBS Case #9-990-001.
@issue: The Journal of Business and Design vol. 7, no. 1, 2001.
Paper Versus Polystyrene: A Complex Choice Martin B. Hocking, Science, vol. 251, February1, 1991, pp. 504-505.
Letters: Paper Versus Polystyrene - Environmental Impact Letters in reaction to above article, Science, vol. 252, June 7, 1991, pp. 1361-1363.
Strategies for Green Design Chapter 4 of Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment, U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-E-541, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, October 1992, pp. 53-63.
A Declaration of Sustainability Paul Hawken, Utne Reader, September/October 1993, pp. 54-61.
Innovation at the Speed of Information Steven D. Eppinger, Harvard Business Review, vol. 79, no. 1, pp. 149-158, January 2001, reprint #R0101L.
Is the Make-Buy Decision Process a Core Competence? Charles H. Fine and Daniel E. Whitney, MIT Working Paper, April 1996.


Note:  Content specific to the University of Idaho is in magenta colored font.

‡ Readings identified with ‡ symbol will be handed out in class.

Some required readings for this course are hypertext linked to locations on the internet.

The other required readings for this course are found in the textbook:

Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, 2nd Edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2000.



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