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Question1: Give at least seven benefits of Design for manufacturability and Value Engineering. Be sure to explain in practical terms the relevance of each benefit.

Question2: Define Life Cycle Assessment, Product Life Cycle, and Sustainability. For which of the three do we tend to use Product-by-Value Analysis?

Question3: Describe in detail at least three extensions of Computer-Aided Design and discuss the advantages of each extension.

Answer 1

Question1: Give at least seven benefits of Design for manufacturability and Value Engineering. Be sure to explain in practical terms the relevance of each benefit.

1. Reduced complexity of the product - helps organizations focus on customer value and eliminate unnecessary activities, expenses, and possibly even products.

2. Reduction of environmental impact - Helping consumers recycle more and use less water and less energy through producing products with a lower environmental impact. Making manufacturing and distribution more eco-efficient.

3. Additional standardization of component - Employees have an established, time-tested process to use. When done right, standardization can decrease ambiguity and guesswork, guarantee quality, boost productivity, and increase employee morale.

4. Improvement of functional aspects of the product - a structure used to organize workers. They are grouped based on their specific skills and knowledge

5. Improved job design and job safety - involves integrating job responsibilities or content and certain qualifications that are required to perform the same

6. Improved maintainability (serviceability) of the product - the degree to which a product allows safe, quick and easy replacement of its component parts. It is embodied in the design of the product

7. Robust design - focuses on improving the fundamental function of the product or process, thus facilitating flexible designs and concurrent engineering.

Question2: Define Life Cycle Assessment, Product Life Cycle, and Sustainability. For which of the three do we tend to use Product-by-Value Analysis?

Life cycle assessment evaluates the environmental impact of a product, from raw material and energy inputs all the way to the disposal of the product at its end-of-life. The goal is to make decisions that help reduce the environmental impact of a product throughout its entire life.

Product Life Cycle to design a system that helps introduce new products successfully. If the operations function cannot perform effectively at this stage, the firm may be saddled with losers—products that cannot be produced efficiently and perhaps not at all.

Sustainability means meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Product Life Cycle is used for Product-by-Value Analysis.

Question3: Describe in detail at least three extensions of Computer-Aided Design and discuss the advantages of each extension.

1. Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA)- not only reduces the manufacturing cost of the product but it helps to reduce the time to market and quality of the product.

2. Using 3-D Object Modeling and 3-Dprinting (e.g., for Small prototype development) - is that it is unique in the way that it only uses the required amount of material to create a part or product and that means very little waste.

3. Using STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Data) - Through ISO-10303, STEP was developed by the European Union (EU) to address the increasing complexities in designs and growing global collaborations.