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Product Design Flashcards

Learn vocabulary from chapter 5

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Product decision

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The selection, definition, and design of products

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Product-by-value analysis

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A list of products, in descending order of their individual dollar contribution to the firm, as well as the total annual dollar contribution of the product

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Quality function deployment (QFD)

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A process for determining customer requirements (customer “wants) and translating them into the attributes (the “hows”) that each functional area can understand and act on

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House of quality

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A part of the quality function deployment process that utilizes a planning matrix to relate customer “wants” to “how” the firm is going to meet those “wants.”

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Product development teams

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Teams charged with moving from market requirements for a product to achieving product success

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Concurrent engineering

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Use of participating teams in design and engineering activities

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Manufacturability and value engineering

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Activities that help improve a product’s design, production, maintainability, and use

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Robust design

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A design that can be produced to requirements even with unfavorable conditions in the production process

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Modular design

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A design in which parts or components of a product are subdivided into modules that are easily interchanged or replaced

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Computer-aided design

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Interactive use of a computer to develop and document a product

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Design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA)

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Software that allows designers to look at the effect of design on manufacturing of the product

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3-D object modeling

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An extension of CAD that builds small prototypes

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Standard for the exchange of product data (STEP)

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A standard that provides a format allowing the electronic transmittal of three-dimensional data

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Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)

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The use of information technology to control machinery

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Virtual reality

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A visual form of communication in which images substitute for reality and typically allow the user to respond interactively

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Value analysis

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A review of successful products that takes place during the production process

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Sustainability

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A production system that supports conservation and renewal of resources

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Life cycle assessment (LCA)

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Part of ISO 14000; assesses the environment impact of a product, from material and energy inputs to disposal and environmental releases

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Time-based competition

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Competition based on time; rapidly developing products and moving them to market

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Joint ventures

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Firms establishing joint ownership to pursue new products or markets

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Alliances

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Cooperative agreements that allow firms to remain independent, but pursue strategies consistent with their individual missions

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Engineering drawing

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A drawing that shows the dimensions, tolerances, materials, and finishes of a component

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Bill of material (BOM)

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A list of the components, their description, and the quantity of each required to make one unit of a product

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Make-or-buy decision

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The choice between producing a component or a service and purchasing it form an outside source

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Group technology

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A product and component coding system that specifies the type of processing and the parameters of the processing; it allows similar products to be grouped

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Assembly drawing

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An exploded view of the product

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Assembly chart

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A graphic means of identifying how components flow into subassemblies and final products

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Route sheet

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A listing of the operations necessary to produce a component with the material specified in the bill of material

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Work order

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An instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item

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Engineering change notice (ECN)

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A correction or modification of an engineering drawing or bill of material

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Configuration management

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A system by which a product’s planned and changing components are accurately identified

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Product life-cycle management (PLM)

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Software programs that tie together many phases of product design and manufacture

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Route sheet

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A listing of the operations necessary to produce a component with the material specified in the bill of material

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Work order

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An instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item

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Engineering change notice (ECN)

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A correction or modification of an engineering drawing or bill of material

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Configuration management

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A system by which a product’s planned and changing components are accurately identified

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Product life-cycle management (PLM)

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Software programs that tie together many phases of product design and manufacture

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Product decision

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The selection, definition, and design of products

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