Ch. 15 part 1

Question 1

Acquired info will identify basic process elements, resource requirements, process interfaces, complications, coordination and control mechanisms, and trouble spots.

Answer 1

Process description

Question 2

Show how the current process works and suggests areas of improvement.

Answer 2

Process maps

Question 3

Generate design alternatives, develop selected alternatives, and validate the preferred alternative’s effectiveness.

Answer 3

Process design 3 step activity

Question 4

Specifies the product opportunity.

Answer 4

Requirements determination

Question 5

Proven ways of achieving common design objectives, are resources for generating design alternatives.

Answer 5

Process prototypes

Question 6

Information is collected form various sources, including personal experience, observation, interviews, and documents.

Answer 6

Information gathering

Question 7

Activities needed to meet customers expectations.

Answer 7

Real value added

Question 8

Limitations on design alternatives that reflect practical demands. Can be internal or external in origin.

Answer 8

Constraints

Question 9

Solution possibilities generated by the designer, usually developed in a top-down manner, from concept to detailed proposal.

Answer 9

Alternatives

Question 10

A rigorous, systematic, and comprehensive method for translating customer needs into product characteristics and production processes. Not very helpful with the design of innovative new products.

Answer 10

Quality Function Deployment

Question 11

Activities, such as planning and regulatory compliance, that are essential for conducting business.

Answer 11

Business value added

Question 12

Is a technique based on the age-old practice of learning from others–studying, copying, and adapting their best practices.

Answer 12

Benchmarking

Question 13

Is the task of analyzing an existing process to determine how it works and how it can be improved.

Answer 13

Process analysis

Question 14

The needs that motivate design activity, many of which are discovered during the design process.

Answer 14

Goals

Question 15

Diagrams and other plans that communicate design specifications to those who make the final product.

Answer 15

Representation

Question 16

Activities that aren’t needed, possibly including storage, movement, rework, and approvals.

Answer 16

Non-value added

Question 17

Is the task of making something, a system or artifact, when the making is not from an existing plan.

Answer 17

Design

Question 18

A system or representing that enables system construction. Design solutions are acceptable, rather than optimal, and their viability often isn’t confirmed until a working prototype is in hand.

Answer 18

Solutions

Question 19

Output per unit input

Answer 19

Productivity

Question 20

Value of outputs less value of inputs

Answer 20

Value-added

Question 21

A systematic decompositional method for identifying essential product functions and cost-effective ways of performing them.

Answer 21

Value analysis

Question 22

Integrated set of activities that converts inputs into outputs.

Answer 22

Process

Question 23

Is the task of creating products that satisfy customer needs and that can be produced and sold at a profit. Institutionalized activity in most companies, which constantly search for ways of improving existing products and creating new ones.

Answer 23

Product Design

Question 24

A collection of heuristics and statistical methods for designing products so they have long service lives and can easily be maintained and repaired.

Answer 24

Design for reliability and maintainability

Question 25

A collection of proven heuristics for designing parts and products that can be easily produced and assembled.

Answer 25

Design for manufacturing

Question 26

Designing electrical cars that can go further than several hundred miles.

Answer 26

Constraints

Question 27

Depicts important process elements and relationships.

Answer 27

Flowchart