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Engineering design is that phase of the product realization process which, given the output of what is commonly called ‘industrial design’, adds the information needed for manufacturing a product. That is a lotof information. The industrial designers essentially provide only a marketing concept for a product, including some usually incomplete and vague requirements of the market. Manufacturing, of course, requires complete information about the material, dimensions, and tolerances for every part, as well as how the parts are to be assembled into a product. Thus, the amount of information about a product that is added in the engineering design phase is huge - and the product’s cost and quality are extremely sensitive to the decisions made during engineering design.
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Dixon, J.R. (1994). Recent Developments in Engineering Design Research. In: Dasu, S., Eastman, C. (eds) Management of Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1390-8_2
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