ABOUT NPDC

With the emergence of a global economy, design teams confront the challenges of complex and continuously changing customer demands, rapidly improving technology, newer emerging business models, and multi-faceted global competition. Coincidentally, the recent turmoil in global financial markets has caused a widespread decline in worldwide economic activity adversely affecting many product and service sectors. The current dominant sentiment being a decrease in spending, the new imperatives are price sensitivity, cost optimization, energy savings, resource conservation, market retention and diversification through innovative strategies. It is necessary to rise to these challenges by motivating and improving the effectiveness of new product development professionals by introducing them to the state-of-the-art in their work covering the changing role of People, Process and Technology and the best practices in Product Innovation. The scope of this conference inter alia extends over the Engineering, Medical, Pharmaceutical, Software, Advertisements and Insurance domains. Contributions from academia and industry in the form of knowledge and insights concerning the latest advances covering a range of Product Development operations from opportunity identification to implementation and marketing will be presented at this international forum.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are required to send a soft copy of the extended abstract of their original and unpublished contributions by email npdc09@gmail.com. The extended abstract should be limited to two A4 size pages including text, figures, tables and references. It should be in MS word or PDF format with 25mm margins on all sides, 1.5 line spacing and 12 pt Times New Roman font. Authors should mention their affiliations with addresses, e-mail, telephone and fax numbers. Acceptance of the abstracts will be communicated to the corresponding author (to be indicated in the abstract). Following acceptance, authors should submit the full paper according to the conference format. The final acceptance of the paper for oral presentation, and inclusion in the proceedings or poster presentation, will be based on peer reviews.

Full Paper Submission

Full length papers must be submitted in the specified format in MS-Word or PDF versions. Detailed instructions will be sent by email to authors whose abstracts have been approved. The full length paper will be reviewed and the acceptance informed to the corresponding author.
Topics for the Conference

• # Six Sigma Lean Product Development
• # Open Innovation
• # Robust Design
• # Product Life Cycle Management
• # Design for Manufacturing and Cost
• #Frugal Design
• # Globalizing Product Development
• # Virtual Product Development
• # People, Teams and Culture
• # Co-Development and Alliances
• # Product Development Management
• #  Design for Sustainability
• # Voice of the Customer

IMPORTANT DATES

CONTACT US

NPDC09 Conference Secretariat
Machine Design Block
Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Madras, Chennai – 600 036, INDIA

Phone: +91 44 22574679 / 22575689
Fax: +91 44 22574652
Email: npdc09@gmail.com
Web: www.npdc.iitm.ac.in