Publisher's Synopsis
With the increasing number and complexity of products and the demand to develop them in much reduced timescales, designers are being introduced to new approaches in design, such as mechatronics and concurrent engineering. These all necessitate the development of a comprehensive design system. The Engineering Design Centre at City University has developed such a design system called "Design Function Deployment" (DFD) and it constitutes the subject of this book.;The book describes traditional design processes and identifies why a comprehensive design system is required, the development of Design Function Deployment (DFD) and how DFD is implemented.
