Ch. 15 part 1 Flashcards
Acquired info will identify basic process elements, resource requirements, process interfaces, complications, coordination and control mechanisms, and trouble spots.
Process description
Show how the current process works and suggests areas of improvement.
Process maps
Generate design alternatives, develop selected alternatives, and validate the preferred alternative’s effectiveness.
Process design 3 step activity
Specifies the product opportunity.
Requirements determination
Proven ways of achieving common design objectives, are resources for generating design alternatives.
Process prototypes
Information is collected form various sources, including personal experience, observation, interviews, and documents.
Information gathering
Activities needed to meet customers expectations.
Real value added
Limitations on design alternatives that reflect practical demands. Can be internal or external in origin.
Constraints
Solution possibilities generated by the designer, usually developed in a top-down manner, from concept to detailed proposal.
Alternatives
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.
Quality Function Deployment
Activities, such as planning and regulatory compliance, that are essential for conducting business.
Business value added
Is a technique based on the age-old practice of learning from others–studying, copying, and adapting their best practices.
Benchmarking
Is the task of analyzing an existing process to determine how it works and how it can be improved.
Process analysis
The needs that motivate design activity, many of which are discovered during the design process.
Goals
Diagrams and other plans that communicate design specifications to those who make the final product.
Representation
Activities that aren’t needed, possibly including storage, movement, rework, and approvals.
Non-value added
Is the task of making something, a system or artifact, when the making is not from an existing plan.
Design
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.
Solutions
Output per unit input
Productivity
Value of outputs less value of inputs
Value-added
A systematic decompositional method for identifying essential product functions and cost-effective ways of performing them.
Value analysis
Integrated set of activities that converts inputs into outputs.
Process
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.
Product Design
A collection of heuristics and statistical methods for designing products so they have long service lives and can easily be maintained and repaired.
Design for reliability and maintainability
