Chapter 4 – Product Design

Company Web Sites

Apple www.apple.com

Dell www.dell.com

Ford http://www.ford.com/

General Electric http://www.ge.com/

General Motors www.gm.com

IBM http://www.ibm.com/

Lands' End http://www.landsend.com/

3M www.3m.com

Marriott http://www.marriott.com/

McDonald's http://www.mcdonalds.com/

Nordstrom www.nordstrom.com

Prada www.prada.com

Shouldice Hospital http://www.shouldice.com/

Xerox http://www.xerox.com/ Resource Web Sites

Innovation and Design

Bad Designs http://www.baddesigns.com/

Rube Goldberg http://www.rube-goldberg.com/

Innovation.net http://www.innovation.net/

Should Exist http://www.shouldexist.org/

Inventing Modern America http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/ima/

Corporate Design Foundation http://www.cdf.org

100 Years of Innovation http://www.businessweek.com/innovation/index.html

Invention Facts and Myths http://www.ideafinder.com/history/of_inventions.htm

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/

Usability www.usability.gov

The Evolution of the IPOD wheel http://news.com.com/The+secret+of+iPods+scroll+wheel/2010-1041_3-5375101.html? tag=bwol

TRIZ – Theory of Innovative Problem Solving http://www.mazur.net/triz/ http://www.triz.org/ Benchmarking

International Benchmarking Clearinghouse http://www.apqc.org/

The Benchmarking Exchange http://www.benchnet.com/

Research & Development

Palo Alto Research Center www.parc.com

Bell Labs http://www.bell-labs.com/

3M Innovation http://www.3m.com/about3M/

IBM Research http://www.research.ibm.com/

Reliability

The Reliability Center http://www.reliability.com

FMEA http://www.npd-solutions.com/fmea.html

Center for System Reliability http://reliability.sandia.gov

Design for Manufacture and Assembly

Design and Manufacturing Institute http://www.dmi.stevens-tech.edu/

Boothroyd & Dewhurst’s DFMA site http://www.dfma.com/ Design for Environment

Extended Producer’s Responsibility (EPR) (also known as Product Stewardship) http://www.epa.gov/epr/index.htm

Sustainability http://www.epa.gov/sustainability/

Green Design http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/ http://www.greendesign.com/

ISO 14000 http://www.iso14000.net/

European Union Environmental Policies http://www.eea.europa.eu/

Quality Function Deployment

The QFD Institute http://www.qfdi.org/

QFD Tutorial http://www.qfdonline.com/qfd-tutorial/

International Council for QFD http://www.icqfd.org/

Technology in Design

University of Michigan's CAD/CAM Group http://www.engin.umich.edu/dept/meam/deslab/cadcam/

AI in Design http://www.cs.wpi.edu/Research/aidg/

CAD/CAM Net http://www.cadcamnet.com/

Design News http://www.designnews.com/