Designing Software Intensive Products: Integrating Engineering and Intellectual Property Management to the Development of Innovative Products

Description

This book guides the reader through a design process that was tested and optimized in companies and design bureaus. It not only smoothly integrates modern product development techniques, but also addresses, for each phase, issues related to the management of intangible assets. There are several books on the product design process, as well as on the development of innovative products in general. However, none of them addresses how to integrate the engineering techniques with the necessary aspects of Intellectual Property Management. With a focus on software intensive products in general, the book presents a meta-process that adapts to product design in any area where the software element is an important factor in product functionality and innovation. Preface Acknowledgments Image Credits Contents Abbreviations 1 Introduction 1.1 The Current Productive Environment 1.2 State of the Art in Product Design 1.3 Book Approach References 2 Fundamentals 2.1 Modern Design Methodologies 2.1.1 Design Thinking 2.1.2 Concurrent Engineering 2.1.3 Agile Development 2.2 Intellectual Property Management 2.2.1 Types of Intellectual Property 2.2.2 Principles and Practices of Intellectual Property Management References 3 Rationale and Basic Techniques 3.1 Rationale 3.2 Coalescing Engineering Disciplines 3.3 Coalescing the Three Design Methodologies 3.4 Planning: Prediction X Reaction 4 Integrating the Software Component 4.1 Woom 4.1.1 Using WOOM 4.1.2 WOOM and Automated Testing 4.2 Parallelization in Software Development 4.2.1 Hardware Doubles References 5 The Design of Innovative Products—DIP 5.1 Process Organization 5.2 Design Workflow 6 Case Study 6.1 Identification and Concept 6.2 Initial Requirements 6.3 Development 6.4 Full Operation 6.5 Practical Remarks 6.6 Final Thoughts References