Designing Successful Products with Plastics: Plastic Part Design with Sustainability in Mind, Second Edition provides expert insights into the design considerations required to bring a concept product or part through design and ready-for-production. Rather than focusing on design rules and engineering equations used during product development, the emphasis of the book is on what the designer needs to consider during the early conceptual visualization stages, and in the detailed stages of the design process. This fully updated edition features new practical advice on how to design sustainably throughout the book. This approach will bridge the gap between the industrial designer, tasked with the 'big picture' product design and use, and the part designer, tasked with the detailed plastic part design for manufacture. Useful to both experienced and novice designers, this book brings valuable design process information through specific examples, enabling designers and engineers in the plastics industry to effectively use the available technical information to successfully design and manufacture new products.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to designing products with plastics2. Material Selection Which Plastic to Use?
3. Process Selection Which Plastics Process to use?
4. Tooling what tooling will be required?
5. Conceptual Design how do we begin the design process?
6. The Many Facets of Design Thinking -- Perspectives
7. Process Driven Design Rules
8. Preliminary Design for Manufacture
9. Detailed Design for Manufacture
10. Gathering Production Estimates
11. Project Review and Verification Risk Management
12. Production Implementation
13. Production Qualification and Hand-Off
14. Design with Plastics Practices Creating Value through Good Design Practices
