Evaluate Feasibility of Advanced Manufacture Design
Overview
This standard identifies the competences you need to contribute to a feasibility review of a new product/process being developed using advanced manufacturing methods and techniques and introduced for the first time. You will be required to evaluate the design with other members of the team in the context of your area of responsibility. You will also be required to identify and recommend improvements to the design from the perspective of your area of responsibility.
Your responsibilities will require you to comply with organisational policy and procedures for ensuring, through your technical support of the NPDI team, the successful review of the new product. You will also report any problems that you cannot personally resolve to the relevant authority. You will be expected to work unsupervised, either on your own or with the team, taking full responsibility for your actions, and possibly for the work of colleagues.
Your underpinning knowledge will provide a good understanding of general and discipline-specific engineering principles and processes. You will be fully conversant with organisational procedures and systems for evaluating the feasibility of new products, in the context of your own expertise and area of responsibility.
You will be fully aware of any health, safety and environmental requirements, and the appropriate legislative and regulatory frameworks, applicable to your area of responsibility. You will be required to ensure that safe working practices are maintained throughout and will understand the responsibility you owe to yourself and others in the workplace.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
| 1. Access and accurately interpret all relevant work instructions and information 2. Work safely at all times and in accordance with all relevant legislation, guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols 3. Produce a risk assessment and method statement for the work activities to be carried out 4. Deal promptly and effectively with any problems within your control and report those which cannot be solved 5. Access and gather the appropriate equipment, accessories and components to carry out the work activities 6. Comply with industry practices and organisational procedures to ensure the co-ordination of site services and work activities 7. Wear PPE in accordance with organisational procedures 8. Establish the **design criteria** and confirm with **relevant others** 9. Identify and access all **sources of supporting information** 10. Identify the **evaluation methods** **and techniques** and confirm with relevant others 11. Identify and apply the security requirements associated with the evaluation work and confirm with relevant others 12. Plan the most appropriate way for evaluating the design of the engineering product or process 13. Establish clear and precise criteria for evaluating the designs 14. Obtain accurate information on the designs from all valid sources 15. Evaluate the designs against the criteria using the most appropriate **evaluation methods and technique** 16. Highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the designs 17. Identify the designs that are the most effective at meeting the requirements 18. Record the results of the feasibility exercise in accordance with organisational requirements 19. Make recommendations on various design options and communicate these to relevant others 20. Present the results of the evaluation to relevant others 21. Complete and store all relevant documentation in accordance with organisational procedures 22. Dispose of waste in accordance with organisational procedures 23. Leave the work area in a safe condition on completion of the work activities in accordance with organisational procedures |
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
- The current legislation, guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols which are relevant to your work practice and to which you must adhere
- The scope and limitations of your own competence, responsibilities and accountability
- Procedures to access and interpret all relevant work instructions and information
- Methods and techniques to produce a risk assessment and method statement for the evaluation work
- The hazards and risks which may arise during the evaluation work and how you can minimise these
- Specific procedures for reporting issues which are beyond your competence, responsibilities and accountability
- The duty to report any acts or omissions that could be unsafe/detrimental to you or relevant others
- The appropriate equipment, accessories and components to carry out the work activities
- How to establish the design criteria
- Sources of supporting information
- Evaluation methods
- The security requirements associated with the evaluation work
- The range of methods and techniques used to evaluate new products
- The evaluation criteria that could be used for different types of design
- How the sustainability and environmental impact plan relates to component and operational activity
- The methods that could be used for verifying different types of result
- The type of impact the evaluation could have on the organisation
- Who requires information on evaluations, and the procedures for informing them
- The types of recommendation that could emerge from evaluations
- Methods and techniques for presentation of recommendations
- The principles and practice of sustainability
- The corrective actions to ensure that any variations to the planned programme of work will have minimum impact on the work activities
- Organisational management structures, roles, and responsibilities
- The procedures and methods relating to the coordination of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary teams
- How to dispose of waste in accordance with organisational procedures
- How to complete and safely store all relevant documentation in accordance with organisational procedures
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Work instructions and information
- Drawings
- Environmental requirements
- Manufacturer instructions
- Method statements
- Specifications
- Sustainability requirements
- Work schedules/programmes
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Equipment, accessories and components
- Access equipment
- Computer hardware
- Consumables
- Hand tools
- Materials
- Power tools
- Safety equipment (including PPE)
- Software
Organisational procedures
- Accident reporting
- Communication
- Customer services
- Emergencies
- Implementing and monitoring health and safety requirements and issues
- Implementing and monitoring issues relating to the environment and sustainability
- Information management
- Project management
- Risk assessment
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Relevant others
- Client representatives
- Customers/clients
- Service providers
- Site/contract/production manager
- Supervisors
- Work colleagues
Design criteria
- Advantages/disadvantages
- Aesthetics
- Interface requirements
- Appropriate materials
- Availability of resources
- Building redundancy into the design
- Characteristic
- Components or systems to be used
- Conformity with organisational/industry standards, directives or codes of practice
- Conformity with relevant health, safety and environmental standards
- Corporate branding
- Diversity/alternatives
- Financial constraints
- Function
- Functional requirements
- Future client support
How effectively they meet the design brief
Important characteristics of the design
Information to be communicated to the appropriate people
Installation or commissioning requirements
- Life cycle of product, system or process
- Manufacturing requirements
- Options for improvement
- Performance against design criteria
Performance/capability
Potential strengths, weakness and opportunities for the new product
Product features
- Purpose
- Quality management system
- Reliability
- Safety environmental and sustainability factors
- Servicing, maintenance or repair
Sustainability
Technical evaluation and recommended strategies
Technology
- Timescales
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Sources of supporting information
- Any previous modelling/mock ups or simulations
- Colleagues
- Consultation/research data
- Design documentation
- Design options created
- Design presentations
- Equipment manufacturers
- General or specialised media
- Operational staff/users
- Supplier
- Technical specialists
- The client/customer
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Evaluation methods and techniques
- Analysis of the design documentation
- Consultation/market research
- Design for manufacture (DFM) and/or design for assembly (DFA) activity
- Function analysis
- Model/mock-up
- Pilot trial/test
- Process failure mode and effects analysis (PFMEA)
- Prototype assessment
- Simulation
- Small-scale production
- Software simulation/modelling
- Value management