Chapter Links and Resources
1. Introduction
2. Development Processes and Organizations
3. Opportunity Identification
4. Product Planning
5. Identifying Customer Needs
6. Product Specifications
7. Concept Generation
8. Concept Selection
9. Concept Testing
10. Product Architecture
11. Industrial Design
12. Design for Environment
13. Design for Manufacturing
14. Prototyping
15. Robust Design
16. Patents and Intellectual Property
- UCSD Patent Site
- Delphion Patent Database
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- Free Patents Online
- MIT Invention Dimension
- Google Patents
- Patent of the Week - amusing patents
17. Product Development Economics
18. Managing Projects
Resources for Design and Development
Human Factors and Ergonomics
Material and Component Suppliers
Engineering Resources
Environmental Issues
Databases
Rapid Prototyping Technology
- Paramount Industries
- Z-Corporation
- San-Tech Engineering
- Wohlers Associates Links/Reports
- Spectrum 3D, Inc.
- Alpha Prototypes
Consulting Firms-PD Management Consulting
- PRTM, Inc.
- Management Roundtable, Inc.
- PDSI
- New Product Dynamics
- Design Concepts
- Lean Product Development
- Product Genesis
Consulting Firms-PD Services
- Medical Device Link's list of Design Consultancies
- Lunar Design
- Product Genesis
- Design Science
- Technique Applied Science
- Cheskin Research
- New Product Dynamics
- Prime Studio, Inc.
- Curventa Design Works
- MindTribe Product Engineering
- Datacolor Color Management Solutions
- CHOi Design, Inc
Institutes, Societies, and Foundations
- Design Management Institute
- Corporate Design Foundation
- Industrial Designers Society of America
- Triz - Altschuler Institute
- Society of Concurrent Product Development
- Product Development Management Association
- Institute For Competitive Product Design - Seminars
- Tauber Manufacturing Institute
Academic Research
- MIT Center for Innovation in Product Development
- CMU Institute for Complex Engineered Systems: Cambridge Engineering Design Centre
Journals
- Journal of Product Innovation Management
- Research in Engineering Design
- Journal of Engineering Design
