Product Design Reviewer
Product Design Reviewer
1. Idea Development
Existing & target customers- Customer surveys & focus groups
Benchmarking- Studying “best in class” companies from your industry or others and comparing their practices &
performance to your own
Reverse engineering- Disassembling a competitor’s product & analyzing its design characteristics & how it was
made
Suppliers, employees and technical advances
2. Product Screening
Operations- Are production requirements consistent with existing capacity?
Marketing- How large is the market niche?
Finance- What is the expected return on investment?
4. Final Design
Specifications are set & then used to:
Develop processing and service delivery instructions
Guide equipment selection
Outline jobs to be performed
Negotiate contracts with suppliers and distributors