subject: Product Design And Development Process [print this page] Engineering has rightly been said as One of the Finest Art of Modern World. The widespread use of this term has given us some highly in novative and trendy products. The products are the outcome of good innovational thoughts and their implementation. Very often the term Product Designing is misinterpreted. Designing a product does not mean just drawing the outlay of the product, instead it is defining the products structure with every possible Measurement.
You cant really think of cooking a dish without knowing the exact quantity of ingredients that are to be added. Similarly with Product Development, it is quite necessary to know the exact design and measurement of the product. And the aforesaid requirement is fulfilled by Product Designers.
With changing times, Designing phase has also undergone a massive change. Earlier, the designers produced the prototype of the product by designing it through hand and giving the rough measurement to the developers. Product Developers have to work really hard on the generated prototype as their job was not confined to developing the product, rather debugging the prototype was also the part of their job. The accuracy level was not sufficient and product prototyping was quite costly affair as a result of which only big companies were able to afford this service.
Now the development in Information technology has the changed the world of product designers upside down. With the help of latest available prototyping software such as Autodesk, one can easily build the products prototype and can also test the generated prototype. As a result of which products are becoming more reliable and attractive. The developing teams are also at ease when it comes to performing their task as they are not involved in debugging the generated prototype.
This transition from Traditional Designing techniques to IT based technique has been quite successful as well as helpful. Now, even small companies can go for product designing as generating the prototype in no longer a costly affair.
As designing the proper prototype of the product is quite important for the development phase similarly, developing the product keeping all the major issues such as resources to be used, cost of production, target market etc. is quite for manufacturing process. The product manufacturing strictly follows the development process outcome.
Thus, for building a great product it is quite necessary to know the various phases involved in Product Design and Development . As having knowledge about anything helps you in some or the other way.
