Product and Service Design

Base Knowledge

Quality Engineering, Marketing

Teaching Methodologies

Expository classes for presenting the theoretical contents. Practical classes for analyzing the evolution of projects.

Learning Results

Being able to: a. Develop strategies for product portfolio planning; b. Identify customer needs; c. Define product specifications; d. Generate concepts; e. Test concepts with appropriate methodologies; f. Design robust products; and g. Estimate costs of new products.

Program

1. Product portfolio development processes – organization dependency aspects
2. Processes of development of product portfolio and organizations
3. Planning of product development – timing and strategies
4. Identification of customer needs – market research tools
5. Product specifications
6. Generation of concepts
7. Selection of concepts
8. Test of concepts
9. Robust design via Taguchi Methods – Introduction to experiments design
10. Estimation of production costs

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Avaliação por projectos
  • - Apresentação final - 20.0%
  • - Relatório - 60.0%
  • - Apresentações sumativas e discussões - 20.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Kotler, P., Keller, K. L. Administração de Marketing, 12.ª Ed., Pearson (2006),  Designation : 2A-3-23 (ISEC) V.1º v. – 05678; 2A-3-24 (ISEC) V.2º v. – 06999; 2A-3-25 (ISEC) V.3º v. – 07000

Mitra, A. Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, 3rd. Ed., Willey (2012), Designation: 2A-8-20 (ISEC) – 09357

Otto, K., Wood, K. Product Design – Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product Development, Prentice Hall (2001) (unavailable in titles basis)

Pires, A.R. Inovação e Desenvolvimento de Novos Produtos, Edições Sílabo (1999) (unavailable in titles basis)

Raghavarao, D., Wiley, J.B., Chitturi, P. Choice-based Conjoint Analysis – Models and Designs, CRC Press (2011) (unavailable in titles basis)

 Rosenau Jr., M.D. The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, John Willey & Sons (1996) (unavailable in titles basis)

 Ulrich, K.T., Eppinger, S.D. Product Design and Development, 4th. Ed. McGraw-Hill (2008), Designation:  2A-4-69 (ISEC) – 12803