Chapter 3

Question 1

The market-pull view of new product innovation is to

Answer 1

Develop products that the company can sell, based on customer needs

Question 2

In which phase of the new-product design process should considerations about tradeoffs among product cost, quality, and schedule be made?

Answer 2

Product design

Question 3

One of the major benefits of concurrent engineering is the reduction in time to complete the new-product development process.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Quality Function Deployment includes all of the following:

Answer 4

relative importance of customer attributes, a comparison to the competitor’s product, engineering characteristics, customer perceptions,customer attributes,

Question 5

Quality Function Deployment:

Answer 5

Links customer requirements to technical specifications