Introduction: The engineering designer; Tasks and activities; Position of the design process within a company; Trends; Necessity for systematic design; Requirements and the need for systematic design; Historical background; Current methods; Aims and objectives of this book -- Fundamentals: Fundamentals of technical systems; Systems, plant, equipment, machines, assemblies and components; Conversion of energy, material and signals; Functional interrelationship; Working interrelationship; Constructional interrelationship; System interrelationship; Systematic guideline; Fundamentals of the systematic approach; Problem solving process; Characteristics of good problem solvers; Problem solving as information processing; General working methodology; Generally applicable methods; Role of computer support -- Product planning, solution finding and evaluation: Product planning; Degree of novelty of a product; Product life cycle; Company goals and their effect; Solution finding methods; Conventional methods; Intuitive methods; Discursive methods; Methods for combining solutions; Selection and evaluation methods; Selecting solution variants; Evaluating solution variants -- Product development process: General problem solving process; Flow of work during the process of designing; Activity planning; Timing and scheduling; Planning project and product costs; Effective organisation structures; Interdisciplinary cooperation; Leadership and team behaviour -- Task clarification: Importance of task clarification; Setting up a requirements list (design specification); Contents; Format; Identifying the requirements; Refining and extending the requirements; Compiling the requirements list; Examples; Using requirements lists; Updating; Partial requirements lists; Further uses; Practical application of requirements lists -- Conceptual design: Steps of conceptual design; Abstracting to identify the essential problems; Aim of abstraction; Broadening the problem formulation; Identifying the essential problems from the requirements list; Establishing function structures; Overall function; Breaking a function down into subfunctions; Practical applications of function structures; Developing working structures; Searching for working principles; Combining working principles; Selecting working structures; Practical application of working structures; Developing concepts; Firming up into principle solution variants; Evaluating principle solution variants; Practical application of developing concepts; Examples of conceptual design; One-handed household water mixing tap; Impulse-loading test rig -- Embodiment design: Steps of embodiment design; Checklist for embodiment design; Basic rules of embodiment design; Clarity; Simplicity; Safety; Principles of embodiment design; Principles of force transmission; Principle of the division of tasks; Principle of self-help; Principles of stability and bi-stability; Principles for fault-free design; Guidelines for embodiment design; Design to allow for expansion; Design to allow for creep and relaxation; Design against corrosion; Design to minimise wear; Design for ergonomics; Design for aesthetics; Design for production; Design for assembly; Design for maintenance; Design for recycling; Design for minimum risk; Design to standards; Evaluating embodiment designs; Example of embodiment design; Detail design -- Mechanical connections, mechatronics and adaptronics: Mechanical connections; Generic functions and general behaviour; Material connections; Form connections; Force connections; Applications; Mechatronics; General architecture and terminology; Goals and limitations; Development of mechatronic solutions; Examples; Adaptronics; Fundamentals and terminology; Goals and limitations; Development of adaptronic solutions; Examples -- Size ranges and modular products: Size ranges; Similarity laws; Decimal-geometric preferred number series; Representation and selection of step sizes; Geometrically similar size ranges; Semi-similar size ranges; Development of size ranges; Modular products; Modular product systematics; Modular product development; Advantages and limitations of modular systems; Examples; Recent rationalisation approaches; Modularisation and product architecture; Platform construction -- Design for quality: Applying a systematic approach; Faults and disturbing factors; Fault-tree analysis; Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA); Quality function deployment (QFD) -- Design for minimum cost: Cost factors; Fundamentals of cost calculations; Methods for estimating costs; Comparing with relative costs; Estimating using share of material costs; Estimating using regression analysis; Extrapolating using similarity relations; Cost structures; Target costing; Rules for minimising costs -- Summary: The systematic approach; Experiences of applying the systematic approach in practice -- References -- English bibliography.

This proven and internationally recognized text teaches the methods of engineering design as a condition of successful product development. It breaks down the design process into phases and then into distinct steps, each with its own working methods. The book provides more examples of product development; it also tightens the scientific bases of its design ideas with new solution fields in composite components, building methods, mechatronics and adaptronics. The economics of design and development are covered and electronic design process technology integrated into its methods. The book is sharply written and well-illustrated.

Publisher description for Engineering design : Effective engineering design must be carefully planned and systematically executed. In particular, engineering design methods must integrate the many different aspects of designing and the priorities of the end-user. This proven and internationally recognized text teaches the methods and ideas of engineering design as a condition of successful product development. It breaks down the design process into phases and then into distinct steps, each with its own working methods. Having established itself, in earlier editions, as a key text, Engineering Design (3rd edition) is enhanced with more input from practising engineers, providing more examples of product development; it also tightens the scientific bases of its design ideas with new solution fields in composite components, building methods, mechatronics and adaptronics and pays attention to the economic aspects of design and development including quality assurance. The third edition also integrates electronic design process technology into its methods. Engineering Design (3rd edition) is translated and edited by Ken Wallace, Chairman of the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge and Luciënne Blessing, Professor of Engineering Design at the Technical University of Berlin. It is translated from the sixth German edition. Topics covered include: psychology of design; product planning and development; the design process including design for recycling; conceptual design; embodiment design; size ranges and modular products; design for quality and minimum cost. Written to provide students and tutors of engineering design with all the fundamental information they require in a crucial subject, Engineering Design (3rd edition) will also be of immense value as a reference to anyone working in the area.