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