Research Issues on Collaborative Product Design and Development

1.2 What are the main phases of product design and development Before discuss the collaboration issues for product design and development, we need to briefly review the phases of product design and development. The major phases of product design and development are normally defined as conceptual design, preliminary design, and detail design and development (Blanchard, 2004). During the conceptual design phase, the concepts, which are also called scheme, are built in order to completely and efficiently design the transceiver. The concepts may include such as product operational requirements and maintenance, current product problem (or deficiency), functional analysis for the product, applicable technical performance measures (TPMs), and specific performance measures and design-to criteria. Preliminary design phase begins with a “functional baseline” product configuration described in the product specification prepared during conceptual design phase. The functional baseline is translated into detailed qualitative and quantitative design requirements for allocating applicable elements of the product. An “allocated baseline” configuration in the form of development, product, and process specifications is established during this phase. At the beginning of detail design and