Chint Electrical Industrial Design Development Planning And Management

CHINT Group is a leading player in electric industry of China. CHINT Building Electrics Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of CHINT Group. This company has introduced industrial design methods into R & D process in order to improve the competitiveness of products. However, industrial design plays a limited role in the company at present.The development goal of the company is to be a leader in China electrical equipment industry. To achieve this goal, the company makes new demands on industrial design. In this situation, how to develop and manage industrial design effectively becomes an urgent problem.In this paper, relationships between industrial design and business management, the situation and development goal of the company, modes of carrying out design projects, the status of industrial design in the company have been researched. Then a development plan of industrial design has been made on the basis of these researches. The plan defines development goals and measures.According to the plan, a design department will be built in the company. The staff structure and functions of the department have been defined. The methods of carrying out design projects, design processes, modes of design communication have been established on the basis of the plan. The design evaluation system for the company has been built and the method of building product identity system has been researched at last.