Download or read book Does Product Design Really Determine written by Karl T. Ulrich and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Does Product Design Really Determine: 80% Of Manufacturing Cost? Many design researchers and practitioners motivate their work with the claim that 80% of the eventual manufacturing cost of a product is determined by the product design. The meaning of this assertion has not been well defined, nor has much empirical evidence been presented to support it This paper addresses the question of how much product design influences the manufacturing cost of a product. In doing so. we define the research question formally, we develop a methodology for answering the question, and we provide a specific answer, under a particular set of assumptions, for a class of high-volume. electromechanical consumer products - automatic drip coffee makers. Our methodology includes product archaeology, the use of the product artifact as a source of data, and manufacturing cost modeling. We find that for coffee makers, the variation in manufacturing costs attributable to differences in product design is slightly smaller in magnitude than the variation in costs attributable to differences in manufacturing systems, for a specific range of assumed manufacturing system parameters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.