PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SIMULATION WITH MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS

Effective product development rests on a product’s design ability to create a positive product experience. This involves complex transform ation of product information from customers to engineers to production to sales and back to customers. This work presents the concept of simulating the development of a new product. The multicriteria analysis of product development in a multi-dimensional space is being used. Based on simulation, the model shows in which direction the product will be developed on the basis of existing information. In the set multi-dimensional space, in which each observation parameter has a designated polar dimensional in terms of dependence on time, development on the basis of selected products is simulated. In an innovative way and in the case of sanitary fittings, simulation of the development of a new product in the early stages of design ideas is shown. (Received in April 2008, accepted in October 2008. This paper was with the authors 3 months for 1 revision.)