What is the technique for electronic product development?

As many companies have demonstrated over time, product design contributes greatly to the improvement of competitiveness, because it permits reduction of costs, increase of quality, and often, shortening of the time necessary to get the product on the market. The product, in turn, generally satisfies customers’ necessities and demands.

Until few years ago, the process of electronic product design and development was basically focused on defining the characteristics that a product should have in order to make it the correct response to certain functional specifications, the latter often being defined by restrictions imposed by manufacturing processes. However the design process is now contemplated from a wider perspective: instead of merely referring to the products own characteristics, it now takes into account ‘external’ factors such as:

·         Customers’ requirements

·         Quality

·         Reduction of manufacturing costs and controls

·         The assembly and distribution process

·         Environmental impact before and after manufacture

·         Product disassembly reuse and recycling

·         Safety, hygiene, ergonomic factors, etc.

These factors must be taken into account from the very conception of the product, in order to satisfy the dynamics of ever more competitive markets as regards price, quality and time to market of new products. The changing demands of customers must also be satisfied, a factor involving new social perceptions, like concern for the environment. All this has a direct effect on the way in which products must be designed, produced and recycled, and introduces new ways of looking at the Product Development process – design included, of course- as well as at the techniques and technologies involved. The implications of this new perspective on design are important:

a) The new product must satisfy numerous criteria simultaneously

b) These criteria must be taken into account during the conception of the product.

Consequently, each of them must be identified, made explicit and related to the others. The synergies and restrictions that may exist between them during the entire life of the product must be analyzed.

c) As a result, the designer can no longer act in an isolated fashion; instead he/ she must interact with many other specialists both inside and outside the company in order to define the different criteria that characterize a product. In addition, systems that enable the proper filtering, storing and recovery of the information generated in each of these concurrently – working teams are also necessary.

d) The information that must be managed therefore increases almost exponentially.

Design and manufacture characteristics are considered basic information to be handled jointly and simultaneously during the design process.

Product Design is similar to Industrial Design (ID) but differs in several important ways. ID as taught in the United States is concerned with a broad spectrum of design activity, spanning everything from graphics and package design to exhibit and environmental design. Product Design focuses on 3-dimensional design. Typical Industrial Design training entails a broad art education that does not delve into any one subject in great depth. It is typically interested in the skin of products but not the actual workings of the inside. As a consequence this education tends to focus on the communication skills, which are expected by potential employers. The typical ID graduate anticipates many years "on the board" and is expected to be aesthetically accomplished to the smallest detail.

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