Tracing the product life cycle
"Re-engineering a product with functional analysis: preliminary work and stages of this tool

A product's life cycle, or life phase, is a succession of stages between its conception and its end-of-life. A product's use phase is only part of its existence. The user, when buying the product, will not have the same needs as when using it, or when maintaining it.

You need to choose which phases of the product's life cycle are relevant to your study (for more details, see the "Studying the competition" sheet for the functional analysis of a product [FIC 0621] ).

Example:...