Integrated Product and Process Design and Development ─ The Product Realization Process

Magrab, Satyandra K. Gupta, R. Patrick McCluskey, and Peter A. Sandborn (all mechanical engineering, U. of Maryland-College Park) explain the team method they call IP2D2 for short, and how it can increase a company's profitability and market share through a product's cost, performance and features, value, and time-to-market lead. No date is cited for the first edition, but this second integrates changes in the approach over the intervening decade and lessons learned from using it is a senior course for ten years. Among the topics are product cost analysis, concepts and embodiments, design for assembly and disassembly, material selection, manufacturing processes and design, and product and process improvement. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)