Design for Profitability

Since the success of products significantly depends on the quality of product performance, inadequate management of the product design process can lead to improper performance of products that can result in significant long-term business losses. Design for Profitability: Guidelines to Cost Effectively Manage the Development Process of Complex Products presents a design guideline for complex product design and development that enables you to cost-effectively improve the technical performance of your products, consequently improving your competitiveness in the marketplace and enhancing profitability.

The book helps you improve the competitiveness of your organisation in the market and eventually improve profitability. It presents a mobile robots design guideline based on an empirical study of the mobile robots design process. This is an unprecedented guideline based on the empirical investigation of the internal aspects of the design process of complex products, aimed at cost-effectively enhancing competitiveness in the market. The book also introduces a hybrid lean-agile design paradigm for mobile robots, highlighting key approaches and risks to efficiently manage the product development process.

In designing complex products and integrated systems, industrial designers face a dilemma of cost-effectively striking a balance between product development time and product performance attributes. This book demonstrates how and when value is added in product design and development by statistically identifying the most and least correlated design activities and strategies to product performance attributes. Introducing a new paradigm in the field of engineering design, the book provides key approaches to efficiently manage the product development process.