Risk Management and Loss Optimization at Design Process of Products

We'd like to introduce a flexible system of design process elements to support the formation and tool selection of an efficient, "lean" product design process. To do this we identify numerical risk factors and introduce a calculating method for optimising taking into consideration - the effect of design steps on usage characteristics. - the time needed by the design elements and the resultant losses, - the effect of design on the success of the implementation process. A generic model was developed for harmonising and sequencing of market and technical activities with built-in acceptance phase. The steps of the model can be selected flexibly depending on design goals. The model regards the concurrent character of market, technical and organising activities, the critical speed of information flow between them and the control, decision and confirmation points.