Produce Design for Advanced Manufacture Product/Process
Overview
This standard identifies the competences you need to produce designs associated with a new product/process being developed using advanced manufacturing methods and techniques and introduced for the first time. You will be required to produce the design with relevant others in the context 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 production of the design for 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, which you may lead or direct, taking full responsibility for your actions, and possibly for the work of colleagues or subordinates.
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 producing designs for 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:
- Access and accurately interpret all relevant work instructions and information
- Work safely at all times and in accordance with all relevant legislation, guidelines, policies, procedures and protocols
- Produce a risk assessment and method statement for the work activities to be carried out
- Deal promptly and effectively with any problems within your control and report those which cannot be solved
- Access and gather the appropriate equipment, accessories and components to carry out the work activities
- Comply with industry practices and organisational procedures to ensure the co-ordination of site services and work activities
- Wear PPE in accordance with organisational procedures
- Identify and apply the security requirements associated with the design work and confirm with relevant others
- Obtain the relevant design criteria
- Identify the available manufacturing and/or assembly process
- Identify any design or manufacturing and/or assembly constraints
- Review best practice used in the current manufacturing and/or assembly processes
- Develop, in consultation with relevant people, a realistic conceptual design option and build plan for the manufacture and/or assembly of the new product
- Discuss and finalise the build plan with the client and any key stakeholders, making changes where necessary
- Critique the build plan against the appropriate analysis methods
- Determine the feasibility of achieving the desired build plan
- Present the build plan to relevant others according to agreed procedures
- Complete and store all relevant documentation in accordance with organisational procedures
- Dispose of waste in accordance with organisational procedures
- 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 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 types of design constraints that should be considered
- The different types of build plan that could be required, including new/state-of-the-art technology
- The types of information and level of detail that should be included in a build plan
- The range of evaluation methods and techniques for new products
- How to prioritise and rank the alternatives
- How to complete a risk assessment of the alternatives
- How to include the findings into build plan proposals
- How to monitor and track build plan proposals through to implementation
- When a client should be consulted on a build plan
- Who should be informed and consulted on the various aspects of a build plan
- The company systems for recording build plan information
- How to identify the available manufacturing and/or assembly process
- The principles and practice of sustainability
- How the sustainability and environmental impact plan relates to component and operational activity
- The importance of communication, keeping relevant others informed during the work
- 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
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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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Manufacturing and/or assembly processes
Access
Quality management system
Contamination
- Handling
- Packaging
- Sequencing
- Tolerancing
- Tool access
- Toxic materials/substances
- Weight
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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
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Analysis methods
- Attribute analysis
- Critical success factor/process matrix
- Fishbone diagram
- Force field analysis
- Mind map
- Paired comparison
- Relationship diagram
- Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis
- Technology/state-of-the-art analysis
- Tree diagram
- Weighted selection