Asimow’s model: Definition of product design, Design by Evolution, Design by Innovation, Essential Factors of Product design, Production-Consumption Cycle, Flow and Value Addition in the Production-Consumption Cycle, The Morphology of Design ( The seven phases), Primary Design Phases and Flowcharting, Role of Allowance, Process Capability and Tolerance in Detailed Design & Assembly.
Introduction, Product Strategies, Time to Market, Analysis of the Product, The S’s Standardization, Renard Series, Simplification, Role of Aesthetics in Product Design, Functional Design Practice.
Principal Stress Trajectories (Force-Flow Lines), Balanced Design, Criteria and Objectives of Design, Material Toughness: Resilience Designing for Uniform Strength, Tension vis-a-vis Compression. Review of Production Process: Introduction, Primary Processes, Machining Process, Non-traditional Machining Processes.
Producibility requirements in the Design of machine Components, Forging Design, Pressed components Design, Casting Design, and Design for Machining Ease, The Role of Process Engineer, Ease of Location Casting and Special Casting. Designing with Plastic, rubber, ceramics and wood: Approach to design with plastics, plastic bush bearings, gears in plastics, rubber parts, design recommendations for rubber parts, ceramic and glass parts.
Introduction, Siddal’s Classification of Design Approaches, Optimization by Differential Calculus, Lagrange Multipliers, Linear Programming (Simplex Method), Geometric Programming, Johnson’s Method of Optimum Design.
Product Value, Design for Safety, Reliability and Environmental Considerations, Manufacturing Operations in relation to Design, Economic Analysis, Profit and Competitiveness, Break – even Analysis, Economic of a New Product Design.
Introduction, Human being as Applicator of Forces, Anthropometry; Man as occupant of Space, The Design of Controls, of controls, the Design of Displays, Man/Machine Information Exchange.
Introduction, Historical Perspective, What is Value? Nature and Measurement of Value, Normal Degree of Value, Importance of Value, The Value analysis Job Plan, Creativity, Steps to Problems-solving and Value Analysis, Value Analysis Test, Value Engineering Idea Generation Check-list Cost Reduction through value engineering case study on Tap Switch Control Assembly, Material and Process Selection in Value Engineering Modern Approaches to Product Design: Concurrent Design and Quality Function Deployment (QFD).