Following the current pace, in which technological innovations, increased market demands, and other characteristics have provided companies with more agile production, is indeed a challenge. Thus, the product development process has become dangerous as it skips crucial steps to the detriment of putting products in the market sooner. Product development methods are a way to determine the necessary steps to design a product. One of the most known methods is that developed by Gerhard Pahl and Wolfgang Beitz, who belong to the semantic school of design. This method is analyzed in this research, and improvements that can be made to provide higher safety to the products developed are proposed. At last, 11 improvement proposals were presented for the studied method followed by explanations and justifications based on the literature on this subject.
Product development; Safety; Accidents whit products
