The Impact of Product and Product Development on the Production System

Diploma Thesis from the year 1999 in the subject Engineering - Mechanical Engineering, grade: 1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, language: English, abstract: The following thesis elucidates the impact of the product and the product development process on the of a manufacturing system. In contrast to integrate constraints and restrictions of the manufacturing system and its processes into the initial of a product , attributes and characteristics of the product are analyzed by the way they influence and restrict the of a manufacturing system. The upcoming hypothesis of this thesis claims latter approach to be the natural and logical one. A sophisticated theory known as Axiomatic [Suh 1990] is used to embed the of a manufacturing system into the of the product and the product development system. The generic derivation of such an integrated framework will allow a broad application to manufacturing and product development system . The following paragraph outlines the background and the issues related to the motivation for this thesis. In the next step, the thesis objectives and hypothesis are stated, marking the scope and content of this academic discussion. Finally, a brief overview is provided about the content and structure of each chapter.