ME 2212 Chapter : Design Chapter 9
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Form, material, and production methods are at the heart of product development. Products must be developed from these concepts through concurrent development, which is driven by functional decomposition. Materials is also very crucial to every product that comes out of the mechanical design process. This bill is basically a parts list or an index to the product. As you know, the index of a book is very important to the book itself, likewise the bill of. The form of a product is bound by the geometric constrains presented and defined by the configuration of connected components. In other words: the form is how a product solves a particular problem, but it, like everything else in this world, is constricted in some manner. Another important topic is the development of a product. The development of most components and assemblies starts at their interfaces, or connections since for the most part function occurs at the interfaces between components.
