FREE online courses on Quality by Design - Design Process

 

Design is a creative process aimed to prepare plans, specifications, drawings, sketches or concepts for production and supply of products and services. Design is ultimately concerned with human happiness through creating harmonious environment during production, supply, installation, servicing and real use conditions, which satisfy basic needs of the people. It shares common concepts and aspirations with several contemporary disciplines including psychology, ergonomics, culture, architecture, environment, buying behavior, business management and engineering.

 

The important quality aspects and regulatory requirements, such as safety, performance and dependability of a product (whether hardware, software, processed material or service) are established during the design and development process.  Deficient design can be a major cause of quality problems. A formal quality management system can specify a systematic control procedure for ensuring quality in design during design process. In the design and development process, various interfaces and operations are involved during a relatively longer time scale. Therefore, it is essential that an effective and efficient control procedure must be developed and implemented to eliminate the quality deficiencies in the product at the design level itself.

 

Various stages involved in systematic design process are explained next: