Udemy – Mechanical design and Product development process

Product development is the process through which  a mechanical product is realized from just an idea into a fully detailed entity ready for production. This course is an attempt to cover that process at an introductory level covering all the key concepts, ideas and details from a perspective of a Mechanical design engineer.

The course is structured in a way as to build on the product development process step by step . From the way an Idea is generated, incubated, to how a concept is generated, evaluated, how specifications are created and set  towards the system design of a product , followed by a overview of  activities in Detailed design and prototyping.

Topics covered:

• Opportunity identification and product idea generation
• What are customer needs?
• What are specifications and when are they set ? how are they set?
• How are concepts generated?
• How to select and score concepts?
• Techniques for Generating ideas and concepts
• What is modularity? and difference between modular designs and integral designs
• What is product architecture  along with the example of a Vehicle architecture
• Importance of the Engineering drawing in Detail design
• Design for X and Design for manufacturing and Assembly
• Types of prototypes and the purpose of prototyping

What you will learn from this course?

• To understand the overall process of product development and develop a Holistic understanding of how products are developed
• To learn ways of developing ideas, opportunities for new product development
• To understand concepts like product architecture, modularity  and Interfaces relating to mechanical design.