INTRODUCTION
TO RAPID PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (RPD) II
RPD Objective
Procedures & Strategies
The tools for effectively and efficiently
decode requirements from users or market
to evolve new or enhance existing
products in a globally competitive environment,
involves the product design and development
process with considerations
for multi-disciplinary and collaborative design,
as well as the adoption of information
and communication
and processing technologies for design, simulating,
prototyping and manufacturing.
RPD Structure - Phases involve identification of market
opportunity, key concepts, methodologies for detail
design and prototype making. Techniques and Tools to
Facilitate and Shorten Product Design and Development;
Emerging Trends according:
Product Design Planning
a. Identify Market Opportunities
b. Evaluate and Prioritise Projects
c. Allocate Resources and Plan Timing
d. Comprehensive Pre-project Planning
Product
Requirements Identification
a.
Define the Product Requirements Scope
b. Gather and Infer Data
c. Management Requirements
d. Establish Worth
e. Permanent Development Improvement
Product Architecture
a.
Translate and Realize Functional Requirements
b. Determine Types of Product Architecture
c. According to Impacts – Market and Environment
Product
Specifications
a.
Establish Target Specifications
b. Refine Specifications
c. Functional Analysis
d. Review on the Results and the Process
Design
for Manufacturing
a.
Preliminary Project Estimates
b. Factored Project Estimates
c. Detailed Project Estimates
d. Address Manufacturability Issues Early in
the Design Cycle
e. Identify Costly Aspects of
Design
f. Iterate Process to Improve
Design and Reduce Costs
Concept
Generation/Selection
a.
Concept Selection Matrix
b. Rate and Rank Concepts
c. Combine and Improve
d. Select Best Concept
e. Review the Process
Computer
Aided Product Design
a.
Shape Design & Styling
b. Product Design and Functional
Evaluations and Manufacturing
Planning
c. Product Lifecycle Management
d. Internet-facilitated Collaborative
Product Design
Industrial
Design
a.
Design Visualization and Communication Methods
b. Form Design Basics
c. Functional Analysis
d. Ergonomics Principles
Prototyping
and Modelling
a.
Determining Prototypes Functions
b. Principles and Types of Prototypes According to product design
c. According Prototyping Technologies
d. Virtual Prototyping
e. Modelling and Simulation
Tooling
a.
RT – Rapid Tooling
b. Full Production Tooling
Product
Development Economics
a.
Product Economics
b. Cost and Schedule Variance Analyses and Reports
c. Net Present Value
d. Sensitivity and Trade-off
e. Analysis for Development
Product
Manufacturing
a.
Manufacturing Process
b. Contractors and Suppliers Assessment and Recommendation
c. Safety, Training, Operation and Equipment Manuals
Knowledge
Management Applications
a.
Developing KM applications
b. Using the proceedings applied in the product development and introduction
of a Rapid Product Development KM system
RPDavailable commercial Services
An
extremely vast group of commercial services is now available.
These include:
Stereolithography
Selective Laser Sintering
Laminated Object
Vacuum Castings
High Speed Machining
Laser Engraving
Z-Corp Model making
Thermojet Modelling
Sand
Casting
Direct Metal Laser Sintering of tool inserts
Rapid Tooling
Techniques of Injection
Virtual Prototyping & Simulation
Modelling & Simulation
Processes Simulation
Rapid Manufacturing
The
new activities that the industrial organizations
should offer and promote are:
a.
Courses of rapid prototyping, rapid
tooling, tooling making, CAD-CAM b.
Advanced apprenticeships, studies of simulation
techniques and RP Decision–Support.
c.
Development of new Techniques of Administration
of Managerial Project –
RPD–Rapid Product Development.
d.
Transfer of Technology–Methods & Systems
Due
to the requirement of improving products quality and the
pressing time constraints, the essential evaluation of
all feasible design alternatives with lowest cost and time
is required actually for a sustainable product development.
Computer aided design; manufacturing and analysis
technologies provide a valuable resource
tool for the innovative design.
Recent advances in technologies like reverse
and concurrent engineering, rapid prototyping,
virtual prototyping,
simulation and
rapid tooling are progressively improving
fast, inexpensive practices to create parts
directly from computer aided
design models. The promising way allowed
by these technologies are giving outstanding
significance to the engineering
process and the impact will be revolutionary
for the worldwide industries.
The experience of the experts in this area
are encouraging to introduce these technologies
as
part of engineering
modern technologies & associated equipments
as well as software for Rapid Product Development
in large-scale
industries like automobile, aerospace, research
institution like defence, space and small-scale
industries and other
application fields like biomedical, art and
archaeology.
Traditional manufacturers need to learn
and have a platform and ways to incorporate
rapid
prototyping technologies
in the business. The manufacturers need
to understand that rapid product development
is definitively become established
and adopt its related technologies rapidly.
