Product Design in Operations Management: An Overview

Looking for this week's post I found this other blog with a very relevant content for the class. Basically explains very easily why product design is relevant for supply chain management.

The two basic steps in designing a product are functional design and production design and the post goes a little further on these two stages.

In production design there are some concepts that come into play like standarization, modular design and/or simplification.

Finally, the post mentions some of the factors that affect costs during the production design stage besides the direct labor and material costs. 

I hope this is useful.

(August 27, 2011). Product Design in Operations Management: An Overview. Help with Assignment Blog. Retrived on 09/04/2012. Available at: http://helpwithassignment.blogspot.com/2011/08/operations-management-product-design.html