investigate and test the student’s capabilities in understanding and applying the main concepts of the Mechanical Product Innovation and the complexity of an engineering product.
Assignment Tasks
Task 1
Let’s assume by 2025 you are an entrepreneur and owns a major bakery in the Sultanate of Oman. As part of your business expansion and for customer needs you are planning for a new bakery branch in a new location.
Come with a quantitative scientific approach taking into consideration a minimum of five locations in Muscat Governorate and taking into effect a minimum of five weighted factors for your new bakery branch. Based on your approach finalize the best location.
a. Select the five weighted factors you have considered with the reason behind the selection.
b. Select the five locations in Muscat Governorate, stating the reason for your selection area.
c. Approach with a solution in a proper format stating the method being used. Clear explanation should be provided for each selection and the reason behind it and finalize the location with a rank.
Task 2
Consider you own a business that provides professional feedback to another organization for a specific fee. A long-established manufacturing firm approaches your company to get a paid advice, since their products are now facing discontinuance. The initial analysis by your team on the company provides the failure to innovate over time periods.
a. Explain a minimum of five reasons why large manufacturing firms faces difficulty in product innovation.
b. The manufacturing firm has asked your company to prepare a presentation to the top management suggesting methods in which the products can be innovative. Prepare a detailed report that explains the points you would cover in your presentation.
Task 3
Reverse engineering is the systematic process of disassembling a product to obtain information about its structure, function and operation.
An internal combustion (IC) engine is a heat engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber that is an integral part of the working fluid flow circuit. Being a mechanical engineering student, the knowledge about an IC Engine is essential.
Hence determine and explain the movable and non-movable parts of an IC Engine.
For each part a proper explanation of the part, its uses, the schematic diagram and the structural component with all details should be mentioned. A minimum of four parts should be analyzed as part of reverse engineering process.
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