COMTRONIX DESIGN
Electronic Design Specialists
Office 352-751-2941
Cell 352-250-1139
Product Planning, the
Step to Success
Product engineering involves many steps, not the least of which is a well
thought-out plan. Review this list and determine which items would be needed
for your program, but try to err on the side of conservatism.
Define Reasonable Objectives
Program Controls, realistic cost and schedule objectives
- Cost Plan tied to the design schedule
- Cost and Schedule Milestone Monitoring
Specifications
- Functional Specification Generation
- Trades matrix
- Tolerance Flow-down
- Design Specification
- Performance Prediction
- Define the level of analysis required
Build / Buy Decision
- Vendor Bid Requirement Development
- Vendor Bid Review
- Build /Buy Trade-Off
Detailed Design, with emphasis on Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
- Establish Guidelines, specification, interfaces, mass properties etc.
- Initial design concept
- Concept review
- Preliminary design and analysis
- Preliminary design review, verify compliance to 1. above
- Final design
- Final design review and analysis
Assembly and Test Plan
- Facilities availability vs. subcontract opportunities
- Manpower
- Equipment and capital expenditure plan
Support / Documentation Plan
- Customer Presentations Progress Reports
- Manufacturing Plans
- Test Plans
- Test Data Analysis
Training Aids
- Drawing Packages
- Product Literature
- Assembly, Installation and Service Manuals
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