This is one of the SEED Curriculum for Design: Ergonomics in Engineering Design reports. These reports provide an integrated series of preparation material for design teaching. SEED (Sharing Experience in Engineering Design) is an organisation of teachers of design in tertiary education.
The manufacturing phase follows the detail design phase, within the ‘Design Activity Model’ (reference 1) shown in Figure 1. However, manufacturing considerations need to be addressed from the outset of the project and it is essential that students be made aware of this distinction. Design educators must include manufacturing considerations as an essential part of the curriculum, and emphasise the need to integrate design and manufacture. Students should be asked to consider manufacture as well as form, fit and function, and be able to compare costs (reference 2) of alternative manufacturing methods, including assembly. These are too often considered later in the product development stage when expensive modifications may be required to alleviate quality or production problems.
Students should also understand that, in practice, many companies have traditionally had separate lines of management, at operational level, for product design and process or manufacturing system design. More progressive companies are implementing project teams which include design, manufacturing and other disciplines from the outset of the project.
The report provides an introduction, topic definition, educational objectives and chapters on when taught and how, manufacturing considerations, manufacturing processes, manufacturing costs, manufacturing information, and influence of automated manufacturing systems. Also provided are references, suggested further reading and figures.
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