CID620 : New product development-industrial collaboration / College of Creative Arts

This course will be preparing students to understand the important of NPD as a design-oriented academic field that is interdisciplinary in nature and brings together economists, organizational theorists, educators, social psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and scientist to work together in one organization based on actual industrial planning. The expertise of researchers in various and combined disciplines help designer to identify venues for possible development. Despite the variety of disciplines, NPD is an identifiable research field focused on understanding characteristics of interdependent group work with the objective of designing adequate design technology development to support such cooperative work. NPD is a design team which responsible to create the next product in a company’s product line through product development process steps. Starting with a product idea, the team moves through several stages to generate all the details and documents needed to get the product built. A NEW product development (NPD) process goes through the same steps, however as this product has not been developed by the team before, new risks and uncertainties are introduced and often additional information is documented and shared with manufacturing. Through this introductory approach students able will gain bigger view on the needs of the industry nature and prepared to align their knowledge to the outside world.