ME 4054W: Senior Design Projects: Week 6 - Tuesday Concept Screening
ME 4054W: Senior Design Projects: Week 6 - Tuesday Concept Screening
ME 4054W: Senior Design Projects: Week 6 - Tuesday Concept Screening
GATHER INFO
DEFINE PROBLEM
GEN CONCEPTS
SCREEN CONCEPTS
IMPLEMENT
HANDOFF
Notes
Mobile App Challenge
Entrepreneurship / Design Challenge http://z.umn.edu/MobileAppChallenge
Class Agenda
Methods of Concept Screening Concept Screening (Pugh) Matrix Concept Scoring (Decision) Matrix
Concept Selection
While concept generation is easy (and fun), concept selection is difficult (and fun) ********************* You never have enough information ******* Use estimation, analysis, and some prototyping ************ Look for new concepts during the process *** Weed out bad (vs picking best) Controlled convergence Follow structured process
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Decision matrices
Unweighted Weighted
Criteria 1 Criteria 2 Criteria 3 Criteria 4
#1 ++ 0 ++
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#2 + 0 0 -
#3 0 0 0 0
#4 -0 -
#5 --0 -
2. Concept scoring
Use objective methods to select to your consensus final concept selection
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Concept Screening
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5. Select one or more concepts for further refinement and analysis 6. Reflect on the results and process
Are all team members comfortable with the decisions? If not, what needs to be resolved?
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Concept Scoring 4. Combine and improve the concepts 5. Select one or more concepts for further refinement and analysis
Sensitivity analysis Build and test prototypes
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Project Example:
Heated Veneer Press, Spring 2000
Specifications taken from the product design specification If a specification does not differentiate one implementation over another, remove it from the selection chart Limit specifications to 10 or less of the most important New specifications may arise associated with manufacturability, etc. Add them to your PDS!
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PDS (Abbreviated):
Veneer Press
Need #'s 5 10 4 12 Metric Surface flatness Cost Laminating pressure Pressure variation over panel surface Duration of pressure application Set-up time Loading time Importance 5 3 5 4 Units mm/m US $ kPa kPa Marginal Value < 2.0 < 800 50-60 < 40 Ideal Value < 1.0 400 50-100 < 20
9 8 7
3 2 3
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+ + -2 3
0 + + 0 +2 1
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0 0 0 0 0 2
0 -4 4
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20 15 10 10 100
1 3 5 5 255 4
20
5 5 4 3 470 1
5 4 4 4 465 2
5 3 3 2 325 3
(5 minutes)
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AFTER SCREENING
Do results make sense? Do you have client (advisor) buy-in ? Do you have to generate more concepts?
Or combine elements from several concepts?
Congratulations!
IDENTIFY OPPORTUNI TY GATHER INFORMATIO N DEFINE PROBLEM GENERATE CONCEPTS SCREEN CONCEPTS IMPLEMENT HANDOFF
You are now ready to implement a design solution that addresses the customers needs (PDS). Implementation includes, but is not limited to:
Design and analysis Fabrication of prototype(s) Testing Optimization Documenting the design and design process
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Cordless nailer
Int. Combustion
Corded Electric
+ + -
2 3 Y
0 0
1 3 N
2 3 Y
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40 20 20 30 20 20 5 4 2 3 3 1 2 4 4 4 2 2 3 3 3 4 3 2 2 3
360 1
340 2
290 4
300 3
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Tensionspring w/wrapping
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