Product design customer needs assessment

As each product needs to fulfil customers requests, permanent involvement of customers into PDF is essential. The whole cross-functional PD team needs to understand customers requests. It is recommended that the whole core team participates in market research from the beginning. For end-user products it is necessary to involve users from specific markets in product assessment at PD milestones [2]. Kevin and Waleed [15] has proposed computer-aided product design that enables presentation of solutions and product details in a meaningful and understandable way to customers already in the conceptual phase. Assessment... 

Define Product or Process Design Objectives/Needs The team seeks to understand the core customer needs that need to be met. If a product or product protot3rpe is available, the project team breaks it down into component parts and raw materials to assess the function that each plays. 

The value of rapid prototyping comes in when you need to dramatically reduce the time and expense involved in making a model of your innovation so it can be assessed and optimized by designers and manufacturing engineers before it goes into production. As well, rapid prototypes are also used by marketing and sales professionals to test and anticipate customer reaction. 

Test reports are technical records on the conformity assessment of a product according to specific standards. Test reports are concise accounts, including clause-by-clause details on the results of the product safety/EMC assessment, standards rationale, test data, construction, and critical components. Test reports are an essential tool for conformity assessment. Test reports contain the technical results of the conformity assessment and need not contain confidential design information. Test reports may be requested by customers, testing/certification bodies, or enforcement authorities for review and verification purposes. 

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