"Praise for the first edition... ...bridge[s] the communication gap between the many engineering disciplines involved in the design process....belongs on the desk of every manager who wants to be successful....written in a clear and convincing way."---Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

• Product development in the changing global world; product development process and organization; early design - requirement definition and conceptual design; design trade-off and optimization analyses - cost and utility metrics; detailed design - analysis and modelling; test and evaluation - design reviews, rapid prototyping, simulation and developmental testing; manufacturing - strategies, planning and methodologies; logistics, packaging, supply chain and the environment; design for people -human engineering, repairability, maintainability, safety and product liability; producibility design process and practices; reliability design process and practices; simplification, complexity, commonality and preferred; producibility guidelines and analysis; successful producibility methods used in industry; testability - design for test and inspection; reliability design analyses and methods.