Methods and Processes of PGE - Product Generation Engineering

  • type: Vorlesung (V)
  • chair: Department of Mechanical Engineering - Institute of Product Engineering
  • semester: SS 2025
  • place:

    Audimax
  • time:

    Fri 25.04.2025, 14:00 - 15:30, weekly

    Mon 28.04.2025, 14:00 - 15:30, weekly
  • start: Fri 25.04.2025, 14:00 - 15:30
  • lecturer:

    Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Albert Albers

    Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Düser

  • sws: 4
  • ects: 6
  • lv-no.: 3146023
  • information:

    E-mail to the lecture coordinators
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Bibliography

Lecture documents
Pahl, Beitz: Konstruktionslehre, Springer-Verlag 1997
Hering, Triemel, Blank: Qualitätssicherung für Ingenieure; VDI-Verlag, 1993
Content of teaching

Basics of Product Development: Basic Terms, Classification of the Product
Development into the industrial environment, generation of costs / responsibility for costs
Concept Development: List of demands / Abstraction of the Problem Definition / Creativity Techniques / Evaluation and selection of solutions
Drafting : Prevailing basic rules of Design / Design Principles as a
problem oriented accessory
Rationalization within the Product Development: Basics of Development
Management/ Simultaneous Engineering and Integrated Product Development/Development of Product
Lines and Modular Construction Systems
Quality Assurance in early Development Phases : Methods of Quality Assurance
in an overview/QFD/FMEA
Annotation

This lecture is the basis for the main subject Integrated Product Development, which is offered as a specialisation.
Workload

regular attendance: 31.5 h

self-study: 148.5 h
Aim

The students are able to ...

  • classify product development in companies and differentiate between different types of product development.
  • name the relevant influencing factors of a market for product development.
  • name, compare and use the central methods and process models of product development within moderate complex technical systems.
  • explain problem solving techniques and associated development methods.
  • explain product profiles and to differentiate and choose suitable creative techniques of solution/idea generation finding on this basis.
  • use design guidelines to create simple technical systems and to explain these guidelines.
  • name and compare quality assurance methods; to choose and use suitable methods for particular applications.
  • explain the differents methods of design of experiment.
  • explain the costs in development process.
Exam description

Written exam

Duration: 120 minutes + 10 minutes reading time

Attention! New name of the exam: Methods and Processes of PGE – Product Generation Engineering. The content of the exam is based on the lecture content of SS2022.

Auxiliaries:

  • Non-programmable calculators
  • German dictionaries (books only)

Please contact pe@ipek.kit.edu if you have any questions about the exam.