Subject description
Development processes and organizations
Opportunity identification
Product planning
Identifying customer needs
Product specifications
Concept generation, selection and testing
Product architecture
Industrial design
Design for manufacturing
Prototyping
Robust design
Product development economics
Design for environment
Product management
Entrepreneurship
The subject is taught in programs
Electrical engineering 1st level
Objectives and competences
The aim of the subject is to introduce systematical methods for the development of new products by combining and integrating the fields of marketing, design, planning and manufacturing. Practical skills are gained via a team work in which the students propose a concept for a new product, develop a prototype and demonstrate its main competitive advantages.
Teaching and learning methods
Theoretical methods are illustrated on different practical and well-known products, ranging from simple to highly complex ones, so that the students get some insights into possible applications.
Some lectures are conducted by invited lecturers form domestic and possibly foreign industry.
The students work on their projects in small teams in which they propose concepts for new products, develop prototypes and publicly demonstrate their main competitive advantages.
Expected study results
After successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
- define basic steps for product planning
- apply techniques for creative concept development and tools for problem solving
- analyse properties of existing and new products
- estimate marketing potential of new products
- evaluate the impact of design on production, quality, economy and environment
- recognise the role of product management in entrepreneurship
Basic sources and literature
- Karl Ulrich, Steven Eppinger, Product Design and Development, McGraw-Hill, 2011
- Elektronsko gradivo – prosojnice predavanj in navodila za vaje: http://lit.fe.uni-lj.si/ZRI
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