Access to the following resources will be required:
Cambridge Engineering Selector database
Boothroyd and Dewhurst Design for Manufacture and Assembly Software
PTC Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire

Product design for Manufacture and Assembly, Geoffrey Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst and Winston Knight, Marcel Dekker, 2002 (ISBN: 082470584X)
How to get started on DFMS and concurrent engineering, Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc.
Designing for manufacture, Harry Peck, Pitman, 1973 (ISBN: 027300008X)
Design for manufacture : strategies, principles and techniques, John Corbett, Addison Wesley, 1991 (ISBN: 0201416948)
Design for effective manufacture : a management overview, Great Britain Department of Trade and Industry, P-E International, 1992 (ISBN: B0000EHOD3)
Design for Six Sigma : in technology and product development, C.M. Creveling, Prentice Hall PTR 2002, (ISBN:0130092231)
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, M.F. Ashby, Elsevier, 2004, (ISBN: 0-7506-4357-9)

A series of one hour per week lectures will be delivered and the concepts presented will be investigated and developed through a set of supporting tutorial activities two hours per week in duration.
Students will be expected to research the topics covered in the module and read extensively in the subject area. This will involve internet based research of resources as well as recommended texts.

50% Coursework: Learning Outcomes 1 & 2
Advanced design case study using appropriate software solutions to analyse and redesign an existing product. This case study should have industrial input where possible.

50% Examination: Learning Outcomes 3 & 4
The questions should be based on the various theoretical models described in the module (ie Material selection, Six Sigma, DFMA)

Material and Process Selection: The Cambridge Engineering Selector (CES) database will be used in an iterative design process to identify the optimum materials and processes for a specific application. The philosophy of appropriate material and process selection will be investigated.

Design for Manufacture & Assembly: The derived process and assembly information will be input into a (DFMA) software solution to quantify the cost implications of a design decision.

Design for Quality: Methodologies for ensuring design quality such as Six Sigma will be applied to ensure that the number of defects inherent in the process adopted meets with customer requirements.

None.