Jeffrey W. Herrmann
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Product development organizations seek to create profitable product designs. This paper discusses how the decomposition of the profit maximization problem leads to traditional product development processes. Decomposition provides a framework that integrates the conceptual models of decision-based design and the traditional description of product development processes. This paper identifies the key reasons for decomposition and discusses why the decomposition varies among product development organizations.
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