<Li> The maintenance and repair department focuses on how well the final product can be maintained: is the product easily reassembled, disassembled, diagnosed, and serviced? </Li> <P> Stakeholders' needs vary from one another and it is the product designer's job to incorporate those needs into their design . </P> <P> Product designers need to consider all of the details: the ways people use and abuse objects, faulty products, errors made in the design process, and the desirable ways in which people wish they could use objects . Many new designs will fail and many won't even make it to market . Some designs eventually become obsolete . The design process itself can be quite frustrating usually taking 5 or 6 tries to get the product design right . A product that fails in the marketplace the first time may be re-introduced to the market 2 more times . If it continues to fail, the product is then considered to be dead because the market believes it to be a failure . Most new products fail, even if it's a great idea . All types of product design are clearly linked to the economic health of manufacturing sectors . Innovation provides much of the competitive impetus for the development of new products, with new technology often requiring a new design interpretation . It only takes one manufacturer to create a new product paradigm to force the rest of the industry to catch up - fueling further innovation . Products designed to benefit people of all ages and abilities--without penalty to any group--accommodate our swelling aging population by extending independence and supporting the changing physical and sensory needs we all encounter as we grow older . </P>

Where does design fit in the product process