Product Design & Engineering (PDE) aims to define new and/or improved products based on customer needs and/or new technologies.

A comprehensive discussion of PDE as a building block for chemical engineering education, research and practice seems still lacking, preventing a broader impact on academic and industry realities more and more concerned with the ‘knowledge economy’.

The purpose of the present current opinion paper was to contribute to the mitigation of this gap by presenting the results the EFCE Section Group PDE survey based on PDE academia and industry expert and practitioner feedback as well as on a literature review. The paper discusses PDE status and challenges as well as maps academic and industry requirements, unmet needs and perspectives for the product manufacturing in the framework of Industry 4.0.

产品设计与工程（PDE）旨在根据客户需求和/或新技术定义新的和/或改进的产品。

似乎仍然缺少对PDE作为化学工程教育，研究和实践的基础的全面讨论，这阻止了对越来越多的与“知识经济”有关的学术和行业现实的广泛影响。

本当前意见书的目的是通过介绍基于PDE学术界，行业专家和从业人员反馈以及文献综述的EFCE科组PDE调查结果，来减轻这一差距。本文讨论了PDE的现状和挑战，以及在工业4.0框架内绘制了学术和行业要求，未满足的需求以及产品制造的观点。