Product design methodologies

The design of new products is crucial to the survival of lots of companies. Most companies must review their products constantly. In rapidly changing industries, the introduction of new products is a way of life and has developed sophisticated approaches to introduce new products.

Product design is almost never a sole responsibility of the operations area, but this is highly subject to the introduction of new products and vice versa. The area of operations is "receiving" the introduction of new products. At the same time, these new products are limited by existential operations and technology. Therefore, it is extremely important to understand the process of designing new products and their interaction with operations.

It is needed to translate the ideas for new products or changes in stocks of these ideas graphically specifying a cut design (CAD) to perform numerical analysis and to ensure the validity of the product (CAE) and plan their manufacture (CAM).

The activity of the Fundació CIM in this line is focused in study, research, development and implementation of solutions in the field of design (CAD), engineering (CAE) and manufacturing (CAM) in automated industrial production systems, as such reduce the manufacturing time and maximize efficiency, quality and competitiveness of these.