Engineering Design, Planning, and Management

Engineering Design, Planning and Management, Second Edition represents a compilation of essential resources, methods, materials and knowledge developed by the author and used over two decades. The book covers engineering design methodology through an interdisciplinary approach, with concise discussions and a visual format. It explores project management and creative design in the context of both established companies and entrepreneurial start-ups. Readers will discover the usefulness of the design process model through practical examples and applications from across engineering disciplines. Sections explain useful design techniques, including concept mapping and weighted decision matrices that are supported with extensive graphics, flowcharts and accompanying interactive templates. Discussions are organized around 12 chapters dealing with topics such design concepts and embodiments, decision-making, finance, budgets, purchasing, bidding, communication, meetings and presentations, reliability and system design, manufacturing design and mechanical design. Front Cover Engineering Design, Planning, and Management Engineering Design, Planning, and Management Copyright Contents Preface ANCILLARIES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Engineering Design, Planning, and Management 1 - Design projects 1.1 Introduction PROBLEMS 1.2 Projects and design PROBLEMS 1.3 Needs identification and customer specifications PROBLEMS PROBLEMS 1.4 Concept generation and technical specifications PROBLEMS 1.5 Detailed design PROBLEMS 1.6 Building and testing PROBLEMS 1.7 Project closure PROBLEMS 1.8 Project planning and management PROBLEMS 1.9 Project problems and disasters PROBLEMS 1.10 Businesses PROBLEMS 1.11 Decision-making PROBLEMS Further reading 2 - Planning and managing projects 2.1 Introduction PROBLEM 2.2 Chunking the project PROBLEM 2.3 Task identification PROBLEM 2.4 Work breakdown structure PROBLEM 2.5 Resources and people PROBLEM 2.6 Microsoft Project tutorial: setup and work breakdown structure 2.7 Schedule synthesis and analysis 2.7.1 Critical path method PROBLEM 2.8 Program evaluation and review technique PROBLEM 2.9 Plan review and documentation PROBLEM 2.10 Project tracking and control PROBLEM 2.11 Assessment PROBLEM Further reading 3 - Customer requirements and specifications 3.1 Introduction PROBLEMS 3.2 Needs PROBLEMS 3.3 Research PROBLEMS 3.4 Benchmarking and surveys PROBLEM 3.5 Market-driven design PROBLEMS 3.6 Patents PROBLEMS 3.7 Customer specifications PROBLEMS 3.8 Quality functional deployment PROBLEMS Further reading 4 - Concepts and technical specifications 4.1 Introduction PROBLEM 4.2 Concepts PROBLEM 4.3 Specifications to concepts PROBLEM 4.4 Representing concepts PROBLEM 4.5 Identifying concepts PROBLEM 4.6 Concept generation PROBLEM 4.7 Prototyping PROBLEM 4.8 Brainstorming PROBLEM 4.9 Morphological matrix methods PROBLEM 4.10 Free thinking PROBLEM 4.11 Deconstruction PROBLEM 4.12 TRIZ PROBLEM 4.13 Back-of-the-envelope calculations and functional prototypes PROBLEM 4.14 Factor of safety PROBLEM 4.15 Concept selection PROBLEM 4.16 Decision matrices PROBLEM 4.17 Embodiment design alternatives for a technical specification PROBLEM 4.18 Intellectual property PROBLEM References Further reading 5 - People and teams 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Individuals 5.2.1 Personal growth 5.2.2 Learning 5.2.3 Attention and focus 5.3 Organizations 5.3.1 Motivation 5.3.2 Politics 5.3.3 Loyalty and trust 5.3.4 Responsibility and authority 5.4 Managing individuals in organizations 5.4.1 Leadership habits 5.4.2 Delegation 5.4.3 Making inclusive decisions 5.4.4 Wellness and productivity 5.4.5 Conflicts and intervention 5.4.6 Hiring and promotion 5.5 Teams 5.5.1 Skills matrix 5.5.2 Profiling 5.5.3 Personality matching 5.5.4 Managing teams 5.6 Ethics 5.7 Professionalism 5.7.1 Time management 5.7.2 Being organized 5.7.3 Diversity 5.7.4 Entrepreneurship 5.7.5 A professional image References Further reading 6 - Decision-making 6.1 Introduction PROBLEM 6.2 Critical thinking PROBLEM 6.3 Critical analysis PROBLEMS 6.4 Selecting between alternatives PROBLEMS 6.5 Triage PROBLEM 6.6 Project decisions PROBLEMS 6.7 Solving formal problems PROBLEMS 6.8 Risk PROBLEM PROBLEMS 6.9 Market PROBLEMS 6.10 Technical PROBLEMS 6.11 Procurement and purchasing PROBLEMS 6.12 Cost and schedule PROBLEMS 6.13 Staffing and management PROBLEMS 6.14 Organization PROBLEM 6.15 External PROBLEMS 6.16 Risk analysis PROBLEMS 6.17 Design alternatives PROBLEMS 6.18 Risk reduction with design alternatives PROBLEM 6.19 Business strategy PROBLEMS 6.20 Assessment and planning PROBLEMS Further reading 7 - Finance, budgets, purchasing, and bidding 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Corporate finance 7.2.1 Accounting PROBLEMS 7.3 Value PROBLEMS 7.4 Design and product costs PROBLEMS 7.5 Project costs 7.5.1 Budgets and bills of material 7.5.2 Tracking budgets PROBLEMS 7.6 Return on investment PROBLEMS 7.7 Financial project justification PROBLEMS 7.8 Product life-cycle cost PROBLEM 7.9 Business decisions PROBLEM 7.10 Purchasing PROBLEMS 7.11 The supply chain for components and materials PROBLEMS 7.12 Bidding PROBLEMS Further reading 8 - Reliability and system design 8.1 Introduction PROBLEMS 8.2 Human and equipment safety PROBLEMS 8.3 System reliability PROBLEM 8.4 Component failure PROBLEM PROBLEM PROBLEMS 8.5 System reliability PROBLEMS 8.6 Passive and active redundancy PROBLEMS 8.7 Modeling system failures 8.7.1 Failure modes and effects analysis PROBLEM 8.8 Complex fault modeling and control PROBLEM 8.9 Designing reliable systems PROBLEMS 8.10 Verification and simulation PROBLEMS Reference Further reading 9 - Communication, meetings, and presentations 9.1 Introduction PROBLEMS 9.2 Speakers/writers and listeners/readers PROBLEMS 9.3 What are you saying? PROBLEMS 9.4 Critical listening and reading as the audience PROBLEMS 9.5 Interpersonal communication skills 9.5.1 Verbal communication PROBLEMS 9.6 Casual written communication PROBLEMS 9.7 Selling PROBLEMS 9.8 Praise and criticism PROBLEMS 9.9 Saying yes, maybe, or no PROBLEMS 9.10 Answering questions PROBLEMS 9.11 Meetings PROBLEMS 9.12 Purpose and procedures PROBLEMS 9.13 Customer and supplier meetings PROBLEMS 9.14 Presentations PROBLEMS 9.15 Presentation motivation PROBLEMS 9.16 Content PROBLEMS 9.17 Presentation appearance and effectiveness PROBLEMS 9.18 Presentation style PROBLEMS 9.19 Harmful and deadly presentations PROBLEMS Further reading 10 - General design topics 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Human factors 10.2.1 User interaction PROBLEMS 10.2.2 Ergonomics PROBLEMS 10.2.3 Law PROBLEMS 10.2.4 Sustainability and environmental factors PROBLEMS 10.2.5 Engineering for our environment PROBLEMS 10.2.6 Design for X PROBLEMS 10.3 Quality PROBLEMS 10.4 Identification of problem causes and control variables PROBLEMS 10.4.1 Cause and effect diagrams PROBLEMS 10.4.2 Pareto analysis PROBLEMS 10.4.3 Experimentation PROBLEMS 10.4.4 Design of experiments PROBLEMS 10.5 Statistical process control PROBLEMS 10.5.1 Control chart calculations PROBLEMS 10.5.2 Parts inspection PROBLEMS 10.5.3 Six-sigma process capability PROBLEMS 10.6 Parametric design and optimization PROBLEMS Further reading A - Checklists A.1 WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE Estimating ESTIMATING A.2 PROJECT DETAILS A.3 DESIGN DETAILS A.4 MEETING DETAILS A.5 TRIZ CONTRADICTION CATEGORIES A.6 TRIZ DESIGN PRINCIPLES B - Technical writing B.1 INTRODUCTION PROBLEM B.2 REPORT AND DOCUMENT TYPES PROBLEMS B.2.1 Project documents B.2.1 PROJECT DOCUMENTS PROBLEMS B.2.2 Technical documents B.2.2 TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS PROBLEMS B.3 DOCUMENT FORMATTING PROBLEMS B.4 TECHNICAL STYLE, GRAMMAR, AND SYNTAX PROBLEMS B.5 WRITING PROCESS PROBLEMS INSTRUCTOR PROBLEMS Reference Further reading C - Accreditation requirements mapping C.1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA C.2 CANADA C.3 AUSTRALIA C.4 UNITED KINGDOM Index A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X