<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Product development is a creative task where is systematically created a new product, which makes possible to firms to offer attractive, innovative and market oriented products. In conditions of fierce competition and saturated markets, companies that do not innovate are stagnating and disappear from the market. Innovation is therefore every intervention which can reduce production costs, enables optimum utilization of available human, energy and material resources, improve product quality, improve the placement, which leads to an increase in competitiveness. A prerequisite for fulfillment of the above-mentioned tasks is that the companies have engineers with the appropriate competencies, which are able to, through creativity, innovation and fascinating technique of creating new or improving existing products and lunch it on the market. The paper discusses the role and importance of the competences that are necessary for a successful professional career of product development engineers.</p></abstract>

Product development is a creative task where is systematically created a new product, which makes possible to firms to offer attractive, innovative and market oriented products. In conditions of fierce competition and saturated markets, companies that do not innovate are stagnating and disappear from the market. Innovation is therefore every intervention which can reduce production costs, enables optimum utilization of available human, energy and material resources, improve product quality, improve the placement, which leads to an increase in competitiveness. A prerequisite for fulfillment of the above-mentioned tasks is that the companies have engineers with the appropriate competencies, which are able to, through creativity, innovation and fascinating technique of creating new or improving existing products and lunch it on the market. The paper discusses the role and importance of the competences that are necessary for a successful professional career of product development engineers.

Importance And Role Of Competence In Professional Career Of Product Develop Engineers

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Department for design, development and engineering, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

Acta Universitatis Cibiniensis. Technical Series

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Product development is a creative task where is systematically created a new product, which makes possible to firms to offer attractive, innovative and market...

Importance And Role Of Competence In Professional Career Of Product Develop Engineers

Published Online: Sep 23, 2015

Page range: 114 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aucts-2015-0038

Keywords
competence, product development, innovations, professional career

© Miltenović Aleksandar et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Importance And Role Of Competence In Professional Career Of Product Develop Engineers

Published Online: Sep 23, 2015

Page range: 114 - 118

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aucts-2015-0038

Keywordscompetence, product development, innovations, professional career

© Miltenović Aleksandar et al.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
competence, product development, innovations, professional career