PD Session-11 - 13 April 2024
PD Session-11 - 13 April 2024
BITS Pilani
Pilani | Dubai | Goa | Hyderabad
BITS Pilani
Pilani | Dubai | Goa | Hyderabad
• Furniture Inn manufactures computer tables. Recently a supplier has offered the tables of the
same quality @ $14 each with an assurance of continued supply. The following is the budget for
4000 units prepared for the quarter ending 30 September 2016:
a) As marginal cost of production is less than the buying price offered by the supplier so Furniture Inn should continue
production of tables. The distribution, administration and fixed production are irrelevant in the decision as
presumptively they will be incurred in either case.
b) As in this case they buy in price $12 is less than the marginal cost of production so Furniture Inn should buy the
tables from the supplier and discontinue production of tables provided other things are favorable.
• Though quantitative considerations are important and may be decisive but make or buy decision
may not be appropriate if relevant qualitative factors are ignored. Some of the qualitative factors
relating to make or buy decision are as follows:
– Quality and reliability of goods to be bought as a defective component may damage the reputation and reliability of
the firm’s ability.
– Reliability of the supplier on timely deliveries of goods as an interruption in the delivery of a component part may
significantly affect a firm’s operations.
– Possibility of ceasing production in near or medium distance future.
– Can guarantee be obtained from the supplier about no price change in foreseeable future? A long term contract with
a reliable supplier may solve this problem.
– Can an alternative use be found for resources made idle by a decision to purchase from outside.
– How long it would take to start manufacturing the product/component again if supplier fails to deliver as promised.
Retaining and rehiring of personnel may be important considerations.
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DESIGN
Ex a m p l e
• Electronic Mail
• Memorandum reports
• When to conduct:
– Detail drawings are complete and ready for release to manufacturing.
– In most cases beta-prototype testing will have been completed.
– Purpose is to compare the design against the most updated version of the product design
specification (PDS)
• PDS
• QFD analysis
• Cost projections
• They must be authorized to make decisions about the design and have the ability and
responsibility to take corrective action.
• The drawings, simulations, test results, FMEAs, and other elements are used to support the
evaluation.
• Any items that do not pass the review are tagged as action items with appropriate
responsibility.
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DESIGN
C h e ckli st fo r fi n a l d e sig n r e vi e w
1. Overall requirements - does it meet? 4. Manufacturing requirements- does it meet?
• Customer requirements • Use of standard components and subassemblies
• Product design specification • Tolerances consistent with process and equipment
• Applicable industry and governmental standards • Materials well defined and consistent with
performance requirements
2. Functional requirements – does it meet? • Have critical control parameters been identified?
• Mechanical, electrical, thermal and many more
• Use of existing equipment and requirement to set
• Size and weight new equipment
• Strength
• Projected life 5. Operational requirements – does it meet?
• Is it easy to install in the field?
3. Environment requirements - does it meet? • Are items requiring frequent maintenance easily
• Operating temperature range accessible?
• Extremes of humidity • Has service person safety been considered in
• Extremes of vibration design?
• Shock • Have human factors been adequately considered in
• Foreign material contamination design?
• Corrosion • Are servicing instructions clear? Are they derived
• Outdoor exposure extremes from FMEA or FTA?
– Accepted as it is
• Process planning
• Decide on warranty
(MPM)
(CRM)
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DESIGN
Su m m a r y
• Detail design is the phase of the design process where all of the details are brought
together, decisions finalized, and a decision is made by management whether to
release the design for production. Design freeze decision has to be taken in detail
design stage.
• The detail design phase also involves verification testing of a prototype, the
generation of a bill of materials (BOM) from the assembly drawings, a final cost
estimate, and decisions on whether to make each part in-house or to obtain it from
an outside supplier.
• Detail design ends when the design is reviewed and accepted by a formal design
review process.
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DESIGN
Su m m a r y
• The engineering design process, and in particular the detail design phase,
requires considerable skill and effort in communication on the part of design team
members.
• Technical reports will be used an effective medium to communicate the product
development process results to the design review team.
Elvin Karana , Paul Hekkert, Prabhu Kandachar, Material considerations in product design: A survey on crucial material aspects used by
product designers, Materials and Design 29 (2008) 1081–1089.
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Pe r fo r m a n ce C h a r a cte r i sti cs o f M a te r i a l s
B. A . Miller , “ Materials Selection for Failure Prevention, ” Failure Analysis and Prevention, ASM Handbook, Vol. 11, ASM International, Materials Park, OH , 2002 , p. 35
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Ty p i ca l M e ch a n i ca l Pr o p e r ti e s o f Se le cte d
M a te r i a l s
Analytical
Methods
Selection with
computer- Decision Performance
aided matrices indices
databases
• This optimization must be done subject to several constraints. The first constraint
is that the tube strength must be sufficient so it will not fail.
• Failure could occur by buckling, brittle fracture, plastic collapse, or fatigue caused
by repeated cyclic loads.
• If fatigue is the likely cause, then the cyclic bending moment Mb the tube can
withstand with infinite life is
• Pugh Concept Selection: The Pugh decision method is used to select a replacement
material for a helical steel spring in a wind-up toy train.
• The material selection for a cryogenic storage vessel for liquefied natural gas is
being evaluated on the basis of the following properties:
3) Stiffness
5) Cost
• Since the tank will be insulated, thermal properties can be neglected in the
selection process.
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We i g h te d Pr o p e r ty In d e x: Exa m p l e
2. Separation