... Ecology Process design Product design Product lifecycle Pools Time‐to‐market The ecological aspects of products have become an issue in the product development processes of many companies. Rising waste prices,electronic scrap laws in Germany, Energy Star in the USA, public opinion and personal...

... is currently being investigated by the author′s research group, and a computer‐aided design environment incorporating these ideas is being created for the design of process machinery. © Company 1995 Design Modelling Process design Universities Designers spend their lives confronting...

... projects into three categories: © MCB UP Limited 1994 Creativity Cross‐functional integration Flexible organizations Information exchange New product development Process design Skills Strategic planning Teamwork Very few people involved in product development today would...

... working on equipment design and purchase. In fact, it was felt that at this time there was insufficient communication among the three main groups working on this programme; the process/design engineers, the operations team and the business team. The obvious solution, which was proposed, was to develop...