Product Design Fundamentals

Product Design

• Focuses on designing and developing innovative products that meet user needs and wants
• Involves understanding user requirements, design principles, and manufacturing processes
• Key concepts:
  • Design thinking: a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing
  • Design process: research, design brief, design specification, prototyping, testing, and evaluation
  • Design tools: CAD software, sketches, models, and prototypes
  • Materials and manufacturing: understanding properties and uses of various materials, and manufacturing processes such as 3D printing and injection molding

Systems And Control

• Focuses on designing and developing systems that can be controlled and monitored
• Involves understanding system principles, control systems, and automation
• Key concepts:
  • System components: input, process, output, and feedback
  • Control systems: open-loop, closed-loop, and feedback control
  • Automation: using sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers to control systems
  • System design: designing systems that are efficient, reliable, and safe

Resistant Materials

• Focuses on designing and making products using resistant materials such as wood, metal, and plastics
• Involves understanding material properties, manufacturing processes, and product design
• Key concepts:
  • Material properties: understanding strength, durability, and sustainability of various materials
  • Manufacturing processes: understanding techniques such as drilling, cutting, and shaping
  • Product design: designing products that meet user needs and are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and sustainable
  • Material selection: selecting materials that meet product requirements and are sustainable

Textiles

• Focuses on designing and making products using textile materials such as fabrics, fibers, and yarns
• Involves understanding textile properties, manufacturing processes, and product design
• Key concepts:
  • Textile properties: understanding properties such as strength, durability, and comfort
  • Manufacturing processes: understanding techniques such as weaving, knitting, and printing
  • Product design: designing products that meet user needs and are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and sustainable
  • Material selection: selecting materials that meet product requirements and are sustainable

Electronics

• Focuses on designing and making electronic products and systems
• Involves understanding electronic components, circuits, and microcontrollers
• Key concepts:
  • Electronic components: understanding components such as resistors, capacitors, and microcontrollers
  • Circuits: understanding series and parallel circuits, and circuit analysis
  • Microcontrollers: understanding programming and using microcontrollers in electronic systems
  • System design: designing electronic systems that are efficient, reliable, and safe

Product Design

• Designs and develops innovative products that meet user needs and wants, involving understanding user requirements, design principles, and manufacturing processes.
• Employs design thinking, a problem-solving approach that emphasizes empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing.
• Involves a design process consisting of research, design brief, design specification, prototyping, testing, and evaluation.
• Utilizes design tools such as CAD software, sketches, models, and prototypes.
• Requires understanding properties and uses of various materials, and manufacturing processes such as 3D printing and injection molding.

Systems And Control

• Designs and develops systems that can be controlled and monitored, involving understanding system principles, control systems, and automation.
• Comprises system components including input, process, output, and feedback.
• Involves control systems such as open-loop, closed-loop, and feedback control.
• Employs automation using sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers to control systems.
• Aims to design systems that are efficient, reliable, and safe.

Resistant Materials

• Designs and makes products using resistant materials such as wood, metal, and plastics.
• Requires understanding material properties including strength, durability, and sustainability of various materials.
• Involves manufacturing processes such as drilling, cutting, and shaping.
• Aims to design products that meet user needs and are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and sustainable.
• Involves selecting materials that meet product requirements and are sustainable.

Textiles

• Designs and makes products using textile materials such as fabrics, fibers, and yarns.
• Requires understanding textile properties including strength, durability, and comfort.
• Involves manufacturing processes such as weaving, knitting, and printing.
• Aims to design products that meet user needs and are functional, aesthetically pleasing, and sustainable.
• Involves selecting materials that meet product requirements and are sustainable.

Electronics

• Designs and makes electronic products and systems, involving understanding electronic components, circuits, and microcontrollers.
• Comprises electronic components including resistors, capacitors, and microcontrollers.
• Involves understanding series and parallel circuits, and circuit analysis.
• Employs microcontrollers, programming, and using microcontrollers in electronic systems.
• Aims to design electronic systems that are efficient, reliable, and safe.

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