Product Design
Product design determines:
Type of products to be produced (Top management decision with input from manufacturing and finance departments)
Detailed design of each product (Concurrent engineering --with the following department involvement:
Manufacturing
Design
Numerical Control/Programming
Quality Control
Tool and Die Design
Marketing
Vendors
Facility Design can be accomplished by either one of the following methods:
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Flexible Design |
Optimum Design |
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If a facility is to be designed to accommodate changes in occupants and mission, flexible design is required. Very general space will be planned which will accommodate changes in the near future. This design method is applied when there is enough space for future growth. |
If a facility is to be designed to accommodate products which require minimal changes in the near future, or if the space available is limited, the facility is designed to optimize the production of these particular products. In this type of design , there is very little space for future expansion. |
During the product design stage, design engineers generate the following which are used by the facilities planners as important inputs:
Detailed operational specifications
Pictorial presentations
Prototypes of the product
Exploded assembly drawings or photographs are useful in designing the layout and handling systems.
Drawings can be prepared and analyzed with computer aided design(CAD) and prototypes of the products can be analyzed by Finite Element Analysis (FEA) techniques.
Links:
Online Learning: Learning AutoCAD
Computer Graphic Applications - AutoCAD
Rapid prototyping (3D Systems)
Facilities at a Rapid Prototype Development Laboratory (University of Dayton Research Institute)
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Last Update: September 10, 2000 |
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Prepared by : Serdar Z. Elgun |
