ASPECTS ON APPLYING OF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS METHOD TO PRODUCTS DESIGN AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER VARIOUS DESIGN METHODS

Among all the stage of product life cycle, the design stage contributes significantly to the improvement of competitiveness, because it permits reduction of costs and often, shortening of the time necessary to get the products on the market. The paper deals with some aspects related to Functional Analysis method used at products designing. It presents how Functional Analysis can improve your product development process, also the paper shows Functional Analysis relationships with other various design methods (Quality Function Deployment, the Kano Analysis etc.)