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Project Unit 4 (Fall 2003)

Course code : XPE4-1-U1
ECTS Credits : 25 Status : Compulsory
Placement : 4. semester Hours per week : 0
Length : 1 semester Teaching Language : Danish

Principal Content : Marketing:
Market Research in a product development perspective
Products, services and brands
Understanding and setting the price
Marketing channels and distribution
Promotion, personal selling and advertising
Marketing planning and marketing economics
Consumerbehavior
Organizational buying behavior

Mechanics of materials:
Axial load, normal stress and strains in mechanical constructions, Hooke´s law, Poisson´s ratio, simple dimmensioning, safety factor, allowable stress, torsion, pure bending of beams, dimensioning of beams and rods.
Engineering materials:
The structure of metals, atomic bonding in solids, the structure of crystalline solids, phase diagrams, mechanism of strengthening, material testing, thermal processing, metal alloys.

Product development as a marketing variable
Integrated product development
The phases of product development
Information searches
Documentation
Techniques for optimizing the product
Mechanical calculations
Project planning
Cycle planning, MRP, KANBAN, etc.
Production to order and production to stock.
Group technology
Layout techniques
Production tasks and production systems
Teaching method : Lectures, discussions, group work, cases, written assignements and video
Required prequisites : -
Responsible teacher : Carl Ankjær Nielsen , can@ihk.dk