The Effect of Teamwork and Function-Oriented Thinking on Generated Ideas for Product Design

摘要

Optimal designs in terms of function and cost are required for the product development and improvement design processes.A methodology that results in high-value design is needed by designers,because they have to generate many different ideas and to select the good ideas.Value Engineering is one of management technique that attempts to fill this need and is good for a wide variety of ideas developed through teamwork and function oriented thinking.In this study,through the effect of teamwork and function-oriented thinking on generated ideas will be verified from the data of a company seminar through quantitative handling of the variety of ideas generated through practical use of information entropy.