Introduction, 122
What Does Product and Service
Design Do? 122
Reasons for Product or Service Design or Redesign, 122
Newsclip: Dutch Boy Brushes up Its
Paints, 123
Objectives of Product and Service
Design, 123
Legal, Ethical, and Environmental
Issues, 124
Other Issues in Product and Service Design, 125
Life Cycles, 125
Standardization, 126
Designing for Mass Customization, 127
Reliability, 129
Robust Design, 130
Cultural Differences, 131
Reading: Do You Want Pickled Beets with That? 131
The Degree of Newness, 132
Phases in Product Design and Development, 132
Idea Generation, 133
Reading: Manager’s Journal: When Customer Research Is a Lousy Idea, 134
Reading: Vlasic on a Roll with Huge Pickle Slices, 135
Designing for Manufacturing, 137
Concurrent Engineering, 137
Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 138
Production Requirements, 138
Recycling, 139
Newsclip: More Cars Come with a Shade of Green-Recycled Materials, 139
Remanufacturing, 140
Reading: Making It (Almost) New
Again, 140
Component Commonality, 142
Quality Function Deployment, 142
The Kano Model, 145
Service Design, 146
Definitions, 146
Overview of Service Design, 147
Differences between Service Design and Product Design, 147
Phases in the Service Design Process, 147
Service Blueprinting, 147
Characteristics of Well-Designed Service Systems, 149
Challenges of Service Design, 149
Operations Strategy, 149
Reading: Time-Based Innovation, 150
Summary, 152
Key Terms, 152
Discussion and Review Questions, 153
Taking Stock, 153
Critical Thinking Exercise, 153
Problems, 153
Selected Bibliography and Further
Reading, 154
Internet Sites, 154
Supplement: Reliability, 155