Labs 3 and 4: Product Family and Portfolio Design


Topic: Consider that you are the design engineer for a company where three is currently one main product. Your assignment is to extend this product into a product portfolio. Your portfolio architecture must employ some level of mass customization.

Step 0. Select one out of the following two, using this method: Add the SID's of each member of your group, if the last digit of the total is one of 0, ..., 4, then you get the scissors, if it is omne of 5, ... 9, you get the stapler.

For each project group, you must begin this lab by getting a pysical product sample as your basis.

(a) Draw sketches to display the main components of the product

(b) Using the materials from your Produt Portfolios lecture (based on Chapter 8 of the textbook, Product Design by Otto and Wood), formulate the basis for extending this product into a product portfolio. You should consider the following aspects:


References:
Chapter 8, Product Design, Kevin Otto and Kristin Wood
Lecture notes for IEEM 317