Product Design Precautions
Posted by dapj20 on Oct 24, 2017 in Design-Notebook
When you design a new Product or Engineer an existing one; communications and documentation is important. Creating a satisfying solution is the main thing. If requirements and specs or not properly developed it can lead to blame-games, wasted time and spoils the reputation.
A firm also should do proper market study before the decision to design a product. Even a well designed product cannot be sold if it does not offer a cost-effective solution.
Black Box Specifications
- Start Projekt {
- Customer Interaction and Communication to make a specs sheet and drawing.
- Block Diagram, feasibility, cost, risk, samples demo and study similar ideas.
- Effective designs are cost effective within customer budget, draft BOM costing.
- Circuit and Code design and get more inputs from customer and then freeze specs.
- Build Dummy for ergonomics and discuss, Prototype and start test at site or simulate.
- Calibration and testing and production documentation drafts final costs.
- Pilot Production of a small batch, rigorous test batch, and freeze production documents.
- Documents and Prototypes to be given to Production Engineering.
- Production Engineering continue engineering maintenance and quality issues.
- } End Projekt
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(I had written this in Aug-05, it is my 90s experience, it may indicate some useful points - delabs)