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Product Development
andSystems Engineering
7.1 What Is Product Development? What
Is Systems Engineering?
Product development (PD) is the sum total of all activities that are undertaken
to identify the need for a product, determination of its functional and aes-
thetic shape, successful production, and commercialization. Product devel-
opment has many facets that need to be understood by an engineer before
the technical engineering design can begin. Formal understanding of the
entire PD process is therefore very important. In Chapter 2, we established
that the arrow of causality ows not from technical engineering design, but
to it from the ...