A Product Analysis Method and its Staging to Develop Redesign Competences

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    Abstract

    Most product development work in industrial practice is incremental, i.e. the company has had a product in production and on the market for some time, and now time has come to design an upgraded variant. This type of redesign project requires that the engineering designers have competences to carry through an analysis of the existing product encompassing both a user-oriented and a technical perspective, as well as to synthesise solution proposals for the upgraded variant. In the course module Product Analysis and Redesign we have developed a product analysis method and a staging of it, which seems to be very productive. In this paper we present the product analysis method and its staging and we reflect on the students’ application of it. We conclude that the method is a valid contribution to develop the students’ redesign competences.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalAdvances in Engineering Education
    Volume3
    Issue number4
    Number of pages29
    ISSN1941-1766
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Bibliographical note

    Incl. link to a video presentation and a guided tour through classroom and workshops

    Keywords

    • Product analysis
    • Redesign
    • Industrial Products

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