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ONLINE COURSE

Designing Product Families:

From Strategy to Implementation
Inquiring For
Work Experience

Why enroll in this course?

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Product development time dropped by 30% due to the optimization of product families

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Unlock new forms of competitive advantage through the power of rapid innovation and mass customization

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Leverage your platform to identify market and product opportunities and generate revenue growth

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Engage in two live sessions with MIT instructors, and up to eight live sessions with learning facilitators, industry experts, and peers.

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Networking opportunities establish professional connections with industry experts and your cohort.

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Access to rich supplementary resources provides additional materials and content for a more thorough educational journey.

Certificate

Certificate

All the participants who successfully complete their program will receive an MIT Professional Education Certificate of Completion, as well as Continuing Education Units (CEUs)*.

To obtain CEUs, complete the accreditation confirmation, which is available at the end of the course. CEUs are calculated for each course based on the number of learning hours.

*The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is defined as 10 contact hours of ongoing learning to indicate the amount of time they have devoted to a non-credit/non-degree professional development program. To understand whether or not these CEUs may be applied toward professional certification, licensing requirements, or other required training or continuing education hours, please consult your training department or licensing authority directly.

Course outline

The current business landscape is increasingly competitive. However, the current speed of innovation and virtually endless personalization now offer new competitive advantages. The organizations taking advantage of these new opportunities are those that are applying strategies to design and develop product families on a common platform.

Who is this online course for?

This course is aimed at professionals looking to create or position their products, services, and systems to innovate and compete in the market.

It is designed for those who want to implement normalization, personalization, and platform use strategies to maximize cost savings and increase their organization’s capacity to offer a variety of personalized products and services.

  • Research and development managers

  • Platform architects

  • Product and marketing managers

  • Product line leaders

  • Public administration and industry systems engineering professionals

Instructors

MPE - Faculty - Bruce Cameron
Dr. Bruce Cameron

Director, System Architecture Group at MIT

MPE - Faculty - Timothy Simpson
Prof. Timothy W. Simpson

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering

MPE - Faculty - Olivier Weck - 1
Prof. Olivier De Weck

Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT

Industry guest speakers

MPE Guest Su Chang
Su Chang

Senior Director at the Procter and Gamble Co.

MPE Guest Kenneth Eskildsen
Kenneth Eskildsen

Modularization Architect at Danfoss Drives

MPE Guest Annabelle Gawer
Prof. Annabelle Gawer

Chaired Professor in Digital Economy at the University of Surrey

MPE Guest Daisuke Goh
Daisuke Goh

Founder, Piic Camera Sharing Japan

MPE Guest Stephen Nichols
Stephen Nichols

Associate Director of Systems Engineering at Otis Elevator Co.

MPE Guest Andries Otter
Andries Otter

Decommissioning and Restoration Excellence Manager at Shell Global Solutions

MPE Guest Mandar Padmawar
Mandar Padmawar

Technical Lead for Wearables at Bose Corporation

MPE Guest Brian Parker
Brian Parker

Vice President of Engineering and International Operations at Environmental Solutions Group

MPE Guest Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh

Leader for Solutions Delivery at Refinitive (MENA)

This class was very interesting to me because it forced me to look at products, not only their value to the organization, but the efficiency of that product from a lot of different angles. You can look at it from all the angles taught in the class, or you can look at it from a grouping of those angles. And for me it was a highly valuable. It's much more than just the product lines that we have today in our organization.
Todd Nate
Head of Private Wireless Sales,
Nokia

MIT Professional Education in Numbers

+60K

Participants in our courses

+155

Countries represented by our participants

92%

Rate the experience as extraordinary

Didn't find what you were looking for? Schedule a call with one of our Program Advisors or call us at +1 315 602 3089.

Please note that our team is away from December 23, 2025 to January 6, 2026 for the year-end holidays. We look forward to addressing your queries when we resume operations in the new year.

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