Mechanical design and Product development process

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction to the course

Lecture 2: Product development of a Bike

Lecture 3: History of Product development and difficulty

Lecture 4: Product innovation

Lecture 5: Three major functions of Product development organization

Lecture 6: Pre-product development Phase

Lecture 7: Design Build and Test Cycle

Chapter 2: The Process

Lecture 1: Full Process

Lecture 2: Importance of Learning and knowledge in Product development

Lecture 3: Core Team of Product development

Chapter 3: Identifying Opportunities and developing Product Idea

Lecture 1: Market Opportunities

Lecture 2: Classification of Opportunities

Lecture 3: Opportunity in Imitation

Lecture 4: Good Opportunities

Lecture 5: Ways of doing Market Research

Lecture 6: Needs of Customers

Lecture 7: KANO Diagram for Customer needs

Lecture 8: Types of Users

Lecture 9: Importance of Empathy

Lecture 10: Interpreting Voice of Customer

Chapter 4: Product Planning

Lecture 1: Product Planning

Chapter 5: Setting Specifications

Lecture 1: Specifications and Target Setting

Lecture 2: Example : Breaking down Needs into Specifications

Lecture 3: Metrics

Lecture 4: Setting Target Metrics

Lecture 5: Refining specifications at Every Stage

Lecture 6: Competitive Benchmarking

Lecture 7: Trade offs in Specifications

Lecture 8: Critical Areas and Reference Specifications

Chapter 6: Concept Generation

Lecture 1: Introduction to Concept Generation

Lecture 2: Process for Generating Concepts

Lecture 3: Cost Specifications

Lecture 4: Concept Generation Simple Vs Complex

Lecture 5: Functional Decomposition

Lecture 6: Physical Decomposition

Lecture 7: Why Decomposition is needed?

Lecture 8: Critical Parameters

Lecture 9: Brainstorming

Lecture 10: Generating Ideas for Concepts

Lecture 11: Techniques for Creative Problem Solving

Lecture 12: Proof of Concept and Form only Models

Chapter 7: Concept Evaluation and Selection

Lecture 1: Concept Evaluation/selection Matrix

Lecture 2: Example of Concept selection – Awning Design

Lecture 3: Weight Scoring method in Concept Evaluation

Lecture 4: Combining and Improving Concepts

Chapter 8: System Design

Lecture 1: What is System Design?

Lecture 2: What is Product Architecture?

Lecture 3: Modularity

Lecture 4: Advantages of Modularity

Lecture 5: Integral Construction

Lecture 6: Interfaces in Mechanical design

Lecture 7: Impacts of Product Architecture

Lecture 8: Emergence of Product Architecture

Lecture 9: Modular Product Platforms

Lecture 10: Example – Interface study for a simple Mechanical design

Chapter 9: Detailed Design

Lecture 1: Introduction to Detail Design

Lecture 2: Bill of Materials

Lecture 3: Design for X

Lecture 4: List of Factors in Mechanical Design

Lecture 5: Engineering Drawing

Lecture 6: DFMA Guidelines

Lecture 7: Material Selection

Lecture 8: Manufacturing Process selection

Lecture 9: Manufacturing Cost

Lecture 10: Engineering Analysis

Lecture 11: Typical Method of engineering analysis

Lecture 12: Final Tooling Release

Lecture 13: Example – Detail Design of Vehicle suspension

Lecture 14: Design Lifecycle of a part

Chapter 10: Prototyping

Lecture 1: What is Prototyping and Types of Prototypes

Lecture 2: Purpose of Prototyping

Lecture 3: Points to note in Prototyping

Lecture 4: Planning of Prototypes

Lecture 5: Alpha, Beta and Pre-production Prototypes

Lecture 6: Types of prototypes on a Graph

Chapter 11: Examples of Product development

Lecture 1: Project 1 – Bicycle – Planning stage

Lecture 2: Project 1 – Bicycle – Concept stage I

Lecture 3: Project 1 – Bicycle – Concept stage II

Lecture 4: Project 1 – Bicycle – System Design

Lecture 5: Project 1 – Bicycle – Detail Design

Lecture 6: Project 2- Full Process

Chapter 12: Mechanical and Machine Design

Lecture 1: What is Machine Design

Lecture 2: Engineering Design process for machine design

Lecture 3: Three Paradigms of Machine or Mechanical Design

Lecture 4: Types of Design Problems

Lecture 5: Types of Mechanical systems

Chapter 13: Bonus Section

Lecture 1: Bonus lecture