Product design requires meticulous planning to minimize time and costs while ensuring successful completion within allocated resources. Time efficiency is critical, striving for optimal development speed without compromising quality.
The product design plan entails identifying and coordinating numerous activities. Some tasks progress sequentially, while others run concurrently. Of particular importance are multidisciplinary activities that align efforts toward common goals and synchronize timelines. A master plan orchestrates these diverse activities and their respective mini-projects within an overarching schedule and resource framework, ensuring effective control over the product design process.
The plan commences with product design specifications. These specifications encompass various facets such as consumer-defined product characteristics, structural composition, safety considerations, usability, aesthetics, and factors affecting manufacturing, processing, and storage. Initially, these specifications start as broad outlines, and through product design and process development, they evolve into precise and quantifiable descriptions.