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On the Origin of Products
Resource added for the Prototype and Design program 106142.
Design and Emotion
There is considerable interest in and growing recognition of the emotional domain in product development. The relationship between the user and the product is paramount in industry, which has led to major research investments in this area. Traditional ergonomic approaches to design have concentrated on the user's physical and cognitive abil
Manufacturing and Design
Manufacturing and Design presents a fresh view on the world of industrial production: thinking in terms of both abstraction levels and trade-offs. The book invites its readers to distinguish between what is possible in principle for a certain process (as determined by physical law); what is possible in practice (the production method as determined by industrial state-of-the-art); and what is possible for a certain supplier (as determined by its production equipment). Specific processes considered here include metal forging, extrusion, and casting; plastic injection molding and thermoforming; additive manufacturing; joining; recycling; and more. By tackling the field of manufacturing processe...
Product Evolution
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An Introduction to Evolutionary Product Development
The concept of product phases is related to the economic (or marketing) product life cycle (m-plc) - both consist of six phases. Introducing product phases opens up the possibility of analyzing the relationships between the different fields of industrial design: ergonomics, marketing, construction, and styling. The styling of a product can be analyzed in relation to its (primary and secondary) functionality, its ergonomic qualities, its production technology, and the marketing techniques that are used to sell the product. This book proposes six qualitative product phases - performance, optimization, itemization, segmentation, individualization, and awareness - that are complementary to the (essentially quantitative) phases of the product life cycle. Placed in chronological order, a more-or-less general pattern reveals itself, enabling the possibility of explaining and predicting a product's development. Each product phase can be described in product characteristic terms which apply to the product itself to: its market, its production technology, the services that accompany the product, and the ethical aspects of the product in question.
Edison's Electric Light
In September 1878, Thomas Alva Edison brashly—and prematurely—proclaimed his breakthrough invention of a workable electric light. That announcement was followed by many months of intense experimentation that led to the successful completion of his Pearl Street station four years later. Edison was not alone—nor was he first—in developing an incandescent light bulb, but his was the most successful of all competing inventions. Drawing from the documents in the Edison archives, Robert Friedel and Paul Israel explain how this came to be. They explore the process of invention through the Menlo Park notes, discussing the full range of experiments, including the testing of a host of material...
