This book was written by Michael Pfeifer, and published by Butterworth-Heinemann in May 2009. This innovative new text/reference provides the "Big picture" view of product development and manufacturing from the materials engineering perspectve.  This perspective is concerned with making decisions that enable the use of optimum materials.  To that end, this book addresses decisions made throughout the product development and manufacturing cycle.  These decisions include those made during concept design, supplier selection, sourcing strategy development, detail design, process development, process development, and manufacturing yield improvement.