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SUBJECT: OMF 551/ PRODUCT DESIGN AND DEVELOPEMENT
SEM / YEAR: V / III
UNIT I
INTRODUCTION
Need for IPPD-Strategic importance of Product development - integration of customer, designer, material
supplier and process planner, Competitor and customer - behavior analysis. Understanding customer- promoting
customer understanding-involve customer in development and managing requirements - Organization process
management and improvement. Plan and establish product specifications.
PART – A 2 Marks
Q.No Questions BT Level Competence
1. List the need for IPPD. BTL1 Remembering
2. Explain the importance of Product development. BTL2 Understanding
3. Define customer focus. BTL1 Remembering
Explain briefly concurrent development of product and process. BTL1 Remembering
4.
5. Define product strategy. BTL2 Understanding
6. Describe the importance of product strategy. BTL1 Remembering
8. Draw the basic process flow chart for IPPD. BTL2 Understanding
Summarize the steps involved in customer involvement.
9. BTL2 Understanding
10. Define supplier integration. BTL1 Understanding
Describe the product design and development process. (13) BTL1 Remembering
3.
Demonstrate the promotion of customer understanding. (13) BTL3 Remembering
4.
Differentiate the competitor and customer in IPPD. (13) Understanding
5. BTL-2
Briefly explain the organization process management and
6. BTL-4 Remembering
improvement in IPPD. (13)
Explain the need for integrated product design and process BTL-2
11. Understanding
development with suitable example. (13)
Explain the ways of promoting customer development and managing BTL-2 Understanding
12.
requirements with suitable example? (13)
Define behavior analysis. Explain it with respect to competitor and
BTL-3 Evaluating
13.
customer. (13)
PART - C 15 Marks
1. Evaluate what fraction of the price of a pocket calculator is required BTL-4 Analyzing
to cover the cost of developing the product.
Judge its importance to produce more eco-friendly products or to Analyzing
2. BTL-4
follow eco-friendly production system.
Task - Structured approaches - clarification – search externally and internally-Explore systematically - reflect on
the solutions and processes - concept selection -methodology-- benefits.
PART-A 2 Marks
1 Prepare the road map for concept generation process. BTL-1 Understanding
2. Explain the concept selection and five step method. (13) BTL-3
Understanding
3. Demonstrate the concept testing. (13) BTL-1 Remembering
4. Explain the problem clarification for CG in product development. (13) BTL-3
Understanding
5. Explain the measurement technique involved in Concept selection. BTL-3
(13) Understanding
6. Explain the problem search internally and externally. (13) Remembering
BTL-1
7. Explain the feedback of constructive process with examples. (13) Understanding
BTL-3
8. Discriminate the classification tree and combination table. (13) Remembering
BTL-1
9. Discuss in detail about establishing target specification. (13) Remembering
BTL-2
10. Describe the product changes implemented and Remembering
BTL-2
standardization in concept selection. (13)
11. Propose a set of selection criteria for the choice of a battery Remembering
BTL- 1
technology for use in a portable computer. (13)
12. List the some different ways you could communicate a concept for a Remembering
BTL- 1
new user interface for an automotive audio system. (13)
13. Describe the management of exploration process. (13) Remembering
BTL-2
Explain the concept screening. (13) Remembering
14. BTL-2
PART–C 15 Marks
3. Recommend a set of selection criteria for the choice of a battery BTL-5 Analyzing
technology for use in a portable computer.
Explain how should a company align the concept generation and BTL-5
4 Evaluating
selection process when the product designing job is outsourced to a
design company?
UNIT-III PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE
PART A 2Marks
1. Define product architecture. BTL-1 Remembering
Express the way by which the product will be created and BTL-2
5 Remembering
clustered in architecture. (13)
Summarize the design issues make an impact in related system BTL-2 Understanding
7
in product architecture. (13)
Describe the interface specification of Product
8 BTL-1 Evaluating
architecture. (13)
9 Describe the rough geometric layout with example. (13) BTL-1 Remembering
12 Explain the differentiation plan and commonality plan. (13) BTL-5 Applying
13 Describe the cluster elements of the schematic layout with
example. (13) BTL-1 Remembering
14 Describe create a schematic of the product layout with example.
BTL-1 Remembering
(13)
PART C 15 Marks
Plan a schematic for a wrist watch, using only functional
1 BTL-5 Analyzing
elements.
Formulate a schematic including the essential functional
2 elements. Identify two or three possible clustering’s of these BTL-5 Analyzing
elements into chunks.
Judge - A firm cannot achieve high product variety without a
3 BTL-5 Analyzing
modular product architecture.
Explain how product architecture will differ for a product
4 (bicycle) developed for an economically lower segment of market
vis-a-vis the same product (bicycle) developed for upper segment BTL-5 Analyzing
of market.
UNIT IV INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Integrate process design - Managing costs - Robust design - Integrating CAE, CAD, CAM tools –
Simulating product performance and manufacturing processes electronically - Need for industrial design-
impact – design process - investigation of customer needs - conceptualization- refinement - management of
the industrial design process - technology driven products - user - driven products - assessing the quality of
industrial design.
PART A 2 Marks
1 Interpret the integrated process design BTL-1 Remembering
7 Compare Technology driven and user driven products. (13) BTL-3 Applying
Demonstrate in detail how the quality can be used in assessing BTL-3 Applying
8
an industrial design. (13)
List some firms that you have a strong corporate identity. What
13 BTL-2 Understanding
aspects of their products helped to develop this identity? (13)
14 Explain what types of products might not benefit from ID BTL-6 Creating
involvement in the development process. (13)
PART C (15 Marks)
Design the product form both "from the inside out” and "from
2
the outside in" for a simple product such as stapler, a telephone BTL-5 Evaluating
and decide.
Judge - Consumers should be involved in product designing
3 BTL-3 Applying
team.
4 BTL-5 Evaluating
Explain what cause and effect mechanism does ID affect a
product.
UNIT V DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCT
DEVELOPMENT
Definition - Estimation of Manufacturing cost-reducing the component costs and assembly costs – Minimize
system complexity - Prototype basics - Principles of prototyping - Planning for prototypes - Economic Analysis
- Understanding and representing tasks-baseline project planning - accelerating the project-project execution.
PART A 2 Marks
1 Interpret the term DFM. BTL-1 Remembering
2 List the DFM process BTL-1 Remembering
3 Give the main categories involved in DFM. BTL-1 Remembering
4 Assess the manufacturability cost. BTL-1 Remembering
5 Illustrate the assembly cost BTL-1 Remembering
6 Define component cost BTL-1 Remembering
7 Define overhead cost. BTL-1 Remembering
8 Define fixed cost. BTL-4 Analyzing
9 List the steps involved in reducing the cost of components. BTL-4 Analyzing
10 Discuss the economic analysis. BTL-4 Analyzing
11 Explain industrial prototyping. BTL-3 Applying
12 Summarize the different prototypes. BTL-2 understanding
13 Summarize the benefits of prototypes. BTL-2 understanding
List the estimation methods used in manufacturing cost.
14 BTL-3 Applying
15 Interpret the steps involved in prototype design. BTL-1 Remembering
Explain in detail about economic scale for part process. (13) Understanding
5 BTL-2
Demonstrate with example about prototype methods. (13) BTL-2 Understanding
6
Explain the role of customer and competitor data analysis in the BTL-4 Analyzing
12 economic analysis process of the product. (13)
List five reasons to pursue a product, even if the quantitative BTL-4 Analyzing
13 analysis reveals a negative NPV. (13)
PART C 15 Marks
Evaluate the production cost for a simple product you may have
purchased such as pen or a baby's toy of 10 no.s. The upper
1 bound for the estimation including overhead can be taken as the
wholesale rate is 50% to 70% of retail. BTL-4 Analyzing