AMI4900: Engineering Design
Engineering Design
Module Overview
Welcome to our module Engineering Design. This has been developed by the University of Bolton as part of the Electronic Product Development, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), leading to a Postgraduate Diploma or Master of Science. The course material was developed to enable managers and engineers gain an overview the major elements that are required to develop a new electronic product. Some of these concepts will be taken to a greater depth dependant upon which modules the student selects for optional units. It will enable students to understand the total product life cycle:
- Product conception
- Product definition
- Product justification and costing
- Product specification
- Product test procedures
- Product development
- High level portioning in the product design
- Development strategies
- Development of hardware and software
- Testing of individual elements
- Testing of integrated systems
- New product introduction
- Volume production
- Product support through its expected working life
- Product expiration and removal from working life
The course will also show how health and safety issues focused on electronic based products can be incorporated into the product development. An overview of regulatory frameworks and requirement is also covered for the EC, USA, Japan and the far East.
Contents
- 1.1 Introduction to Commercial Overview
- 1.2 The total product life cycle
- 1.3 Life cycle considerations
- 1.4 Marketing and User Requirements
- 1.5 High Level Partitioning
Unit 2: Structured approaches to problem solving and process improvement
Unit 3: Regulatory Requirements
- 3.1 Overview of health and safety issues, focussing on electronic based products and components
- 3.2 Overview of regulatory requirements in the European Community and other major world markets, such as the USA, Japan, and the Far East
Unit 4: The Impact of Environmental Issues on Product Design
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Failure mechanisms
- 4.3 Environmental parameters
- 4.4 Environmental testing
- 4.5 The influence of thermal issues on the design process
- 4.6 Vibration & shock
Unit 5: Product Specification Formulation
- 5.1 Introduction to Product Specification Formulation
- 5.2 Functional specifications
- 5.3 Operational specifications
- 5.4 Performance specifications
- 5.5 Environmental specifications
- 5.6 Mechanical (physical) specifications
- 5.7 Specifying regularity requirements
- 7.1: Introduction to DfX
- 7.2: DfX of electronic and mechanical products
- 7.3: Other Design for Xs
- 7.4: Requirements for an efficient NPI process
- 7.5: Concurrent engineering.
- 8.1.1 Volume production
- 8.1.2 The Function of the Production Department
- 8.1.3 Interaction between R&D and Production
- 8.1.4 Designing for Production
- 8.1.5 Product Manufacturing Information
- 8.1.6 Product Production Testing
- 8.1.7 Product Work Instructions
- 8.1.8 The Product Quality Plan
- 8.1.9 Purchasing
- 8.1.10 Purchasing Strategies
- 8.1.11 Management Issues
- 8.1.12 Production Summary
- 9.1 Yield
- 9.2 Overview of quality issues, focusing on electronic based products
- 9.3 Statistical methods
- 9.4 Statistical process control
- 9.5 Taguchi
Suggested Study Plan
Study Week |
Unit |
Unit / Assessment |
|---|---|---|
1 |
1 |
Commercial overview |
2 |
2 |
Structured approaches to problem solving and process improvement |
3 |
3 |
Regulatory Requirements |
4 & 5 |
Assignment 1, 30 hours (worth 30%) | |
6 |
4 |
The Impact of Environmental Issues on Product Design |
7 |
5 |
Product Specification Formulation |
8 |
6 |
Design methods |
9 |
7 |
Strategies |
10 |
8 |
Manufacture |
11 |
9 |
Quality |
12 |
Assignment 2, 30 hours (worth 70%) |
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Author and Tutor
Harold Convey was the Head of the Technology Development Centre at Bolton Institute. He has over 40 years working in various aspects of Electronic Design. He has worked as an academic and an industrial developer. He has worked closely with the dti as the Head of the Northern Support Centre for the Electronics Design Programme and the Microelectronics unit. He was also the manger of the ESPRIT FUSE project and his team covered the north of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The Technology Development Centre assisted Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to specify, design and develop new electronic products.
Michael Convey has some 10 years experience in the ceramics industry developing new manufacturing processes. He has an MSc in Operations, specialising in inventory control, with a track record of successfully managing production operations, controlling all aspects of project management, strategy formulation and inventory management and control which have realised improvements in quality, cost and delivery of all products.
Suggested Reading
Recommended Texts
| Title | Author | ISBN | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Lifecycle Management: 21st Century Paradigm for Product Realisation
|
Stark, John | ISBN 0133942899 |
Springer-Verlag UK | 2004 |
| Portable Electronics Product Design and Development for Cellular Phones, PDA's, Digital Cameras, Personal Electronics and More | Haskell, Bert | ISBN 0071416390 | McGraw-Hill | 2004 |
| Product Development (Electronic Business) | McGrath, Michael E | ISBN 0750692898 | Butterworth-Heinemann | 1992 |
| Revolutionaries at Sony: The Making of the Sony Playstation and the Visionaries Who Conquered the World of Video Games | Asakura, Reiji | ISBN 0071355871 | McGraw-Hill | 2000 |
| 90 Days to Launch: Internet Projects on Time and on Budget | Gilbert, Shayne F. | ISBN 0471388262 | John Wiley | 2000 |
| J.A.S. Electronic Product Development | Ward, Tony & Angus | ISBN 074875170X | Taylor & Francis | 1996 |
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Updated 09.01.07 RA