Harmsen J. Product and Process Design. Driving Sustainable Innovation 2ed 2024

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"Product and process design - driving sustainable innovation" is the 2nd edition of a comprehensive textbook for product and process design courses at BSc, MSc, EngD, and PhD level. It covers both heuristics based design methods as well as systems engineering approaches. It contains specific methods to co-design products and processes, so that both designs are better than when these designs are made separately.
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Part A: Innovation and industry
Introduction goal, scope, and structure
All system levels relevant to design for innovation
Managing innovation
Designing for innovation
Part B: Design generation
General and sustainable design approaches
Scoping the design
Executing designs
Product modeling and optimization
Part C: Design optimization
Process modeling and optimization
Evaluating economic performance
Evaluating for safety
Evaluating for sustainable development, environmental impact, social acceptance
Communicating
Part D: Education
Education
A3 Appendix to Chapter 3
A4 Appendix belonging to Chapter 4
A9 Appendix belonging to Chapter 9: Cases of process modeling for simulation and optimization
A13 Appendix to Chapter 13: communicating