Research Paper

Translate your qualitative customer requirements into more quantitative engineering requirements, documenting your requirements brainstorming lab assignment.

Good requirements definition, accountability, and traceability are critical to a good design. Team should have at least three requirements in each of

following:

  1. Functional Performance – performance, energy, information, or materials flow, operational steps or sequencing, productivity
  2. Human Factors - Appearance, aesthetics, force/motion control, ease of control
  3. Physical Requirements - Available spatial envelope, size, weight, tolerances
  4. Reliability - Mean time between failures, safety, hazards, etc.
  5. Life Cycle Design - Distribution, maintainability, testability, repair ability, clean ability, install ability 6. Resources - Time, cost, capital,

equipment, standards, environment

  1. Design for Assembly (DFA) and manufacturing - Materials, quantity, company capabilities, labor costs.
    Each requirement must be specific and measurable.

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