Design
Design plays an important role in all three of the major phases of a product lifecycle:
- invention, which involves the identification of a need, development of requirements, concept generation, prototype development, manufacturing, and verification testing;
- performance engineering involves enhancing manufacturing efficiency, reducing service and maintenance demands, adding features and improving effectiveness, and validation testing;
- recycle is the decommissioning and disposal phase and includes recovery and reuse of materials and components.
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—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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If design govern in a thing so small.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)