Integrated Design and Engineering As a business improvement process

Developing new innovations and products is both challenging and a complex process. Challenging because it can provide opportunities to exploit new paths, challenges and possibilities, difficult because choices have to be made that may exclude other opportunities and possibilities. In addition, each choice or possibility of change in the design process has financial consequences or a specific cost and therefore an impact on future profitability.

Among other things, you will learn the following after reading this issue:

• What is involved in setting up design and engineering process that is customer-oriented and profitable for your organisation.
• How to organise improvements to existing products and services with all shareholders.
• How to implement the role of information technology over the entire cycle of a product including the reuse of proven knowledge.
• Great applications from the field of product design, building services and asset management.