Engineering Design: Products, Processes and Systems

Written by a world class expert in design engineering, this book introduces the reader to models, frameworks, methodologies, and algorithms that have been applied with great success in industry. These approaches have significantly reduced product development cycle time and improved product and process quality and reliability. Engineering design impacts a wide range of tasks, beginning with the recognition of customer needs and ending with the disposal of the designed artifact. Engineering Design: Products, Processes, and Systems is unique in presenting a process view that allows for uniform treatment of problems and issues over the entire product life cycle. The reader will acquire a complete understanding of process modeling methodologies, process reengineering, the organization of design teams, design for manufacturing, and problem solving from tolerance design to product modularity and negotiation among members of the design team.
The book is liberally illustrated with industrial case studies and examples, and is written to meet the needs of senior undergraduate and graduate students, designers, systems analysts, software engineers, managers, and other practitioners. As the book emphasizes modeling and analysis of the design process, it is of interest to numerous disciplines, including industrial, mechanical, electrical, systems, and software engineering, as well as to various business areas such as operations management and management science. Significant portions of the material apply to the service sector, including healthcare.
Web-Resident Supplementary Materials
Power Point slides are available for all sixteen chapters, including solutions to all problems presented at the end of each chapter. JAVA and Visual BASIC software can be provided for selected algorithms. To obtain access to the educational materials, contact the author by email at andrew-kusiak@uiowa.edu.
Access to a leading process modeling software package is also included. Instructions for accessing and using the software are included in an appendix.

Key Features
* Reduce time in the product development cycle
* Improve quality, productivity, and reliability of products and processes
* Effectively manage the design process
* Solve practical design problems
* Design modular products
* Design products and systems for a manufacturing environment
* Form multidisciplinary design teams
* Develop a virtual design environment

Andrew Kusiak is Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from the Polish Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kusiak has worked and consulted for a number of corporations and consorita. One of the most noted ones is the Next Generation Manufacturing Systems consortium of over twenty corporations including Caterpillar, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Sandia, Rockwell, Nokia, Renault, Fujii, Kawasaki, Honda, and other leading global companies. His papers have appeared in major design and manufacturing journals sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), and other professional societies. He is an author and editor of fourteen books and handbooks. He has also served in various editorial capacities of most major design and manufacturing journals, including IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, IIE Transactions, and the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, seminars, and workshops on engineering design, process engineering, manufacturing, medical technology, and informatics.