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Engineering Design Tools
This 2-day course concentrates on the critical early stages of the design process and helps to develop a structured and commercially effective product development process. The course evaluates a number of key design tools that help to ensure designs meet customer requirements, and are economical to manufacture. A case study is used throughout the programme to enable delegates to practise the theory, and also to consider applications for their own products.
Course Content
Introduction - What is the role of design ? - Developing a structured design process - The product life cycle - Identifying and addressing design constraints The Product Specification - The Kano model - Quality Function Deployment - Writing product specifications Functional Analysis - Describing products in functional terms - Supporting customer needs analysis - Classifying a set of product functions into a FAST diagram Creating and Selecting Design Concepts - Creativity techniques to generate concept ideas - Selection using a controlled and structured process Design Optimisation Techniques - Value Analysis/Value Engineering - Design for Assembly - Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Concurrent Engineering - Economic analysis - Design capacity management