Product and system design
Subject: Product and system design
Credits: 10 ECTS
Target Audience: 2. year students – MSc Product and system design
Prerequisites: Product family design and Machinery systems
Objectives:
Strategic thinking in design and maintenance of a product assortment.
In depth understanding and skills in system engineering. To be able to initiate, plan and execute system projects. Multi discipline approach and use of computer support systems.
Topics:
1. System synthesis
- Project planning and project management
- Design for function, reliability, production, cost, etc. Life phase analysis.
- Configuration and architecture.
2. System simulation
- System modelling, simulation and analyses.
- Technical documentation, product data, structure and format, PDM tools.
- Risk evaluation and analyses
Course readings:
- Systems Engineering and Analysis – Benjamin S. Blanchard & Walter J. Fabrycky
- Systems Engineering Methods - Harold Chestnut
- Systems Engineering Tools – Harold Chestnut
Instructions:
Lectures, exercises and mandatory project work.
Mandatory assignments:
The project work is mandatory. Minimum 2/3 of the exercises have to be approved.
Evaluation: Project work.
Grades: A – F where the grade F represents failure.
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