Improving Engineering Design: Designing for Competitive Advantage (1991)
Chapter: Index
Index
A
Accounting systems ,11 ,23-25 ,33 ,60
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) , 39-41 ,44 ,45 ,69-70
Activity-based costing ,23 ,33
Advanced Civilian Technology Agency ,71
Advisory boards, industrial-university ,49
Analytical models ,21
B
Benchmarking, competitive ,23 ,30
Boothroyd, G .,27
Box, G. E. P .,29
Break-even-Time (BET) metric ,23 ,24 ,76
C
CAM ,59
Clearinghouse for instructional material , 3 ,47
Commerce Department, U.S .,73
Communication models ,61
Competitive advantage methods
development of supportive design environment as , 29-33
steps for design improvement as ,15-17
use of design practices that implement product realization process , 19-29
use of product realization process tailored to product , 17-19
Competitive benchmarking ,23 ,30
Competitiveness ,5-7
Computational prototyping ,58
Computer-aided design (CAD)
in product realization process ,2
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) ,2 ,26
Computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) systems , 24 ,30
Conceptual design ,52 ,53 ,56 ,60 ,62
Concurrent design ,27
Concurrent engineering ,5
Configuration design ,56
Consortium for engineering design .See
National Consortium for Engineering Design
Continuing education ,33 ,43 .See also
Engineering design education
Continuous improvement .See
Incremental improvement
Cost accounting systems ,11 ,24 ,60
Cost-of-ownership approach ,25
Creativity .See
Innovation
Cross-functional teams .See
Interdisciplinary design teams
Customer needs ,18
Cycle time .See
Time to market
D
Defense Department, U.S .,71
Denial ,16
Denial of deficiencies ,16 ,45-46
Department of Commerce, U.S .,73
Department of Defense, U.S .,71
Department of Energy, U.S .,71
Design cost evaluating systems ,27
Design environment ,2 ,15 ,29 ,33 ,34 ,54 ,63
Design for assembly (DFA) methods ,59-60
Design for manufacturing (DFM) methods , 59-60
Design for “X,” 54 ,59-60
Design knowledge ,11 ,14 ,26 ,37 ,43 ,51 ,53 ,55
Design rating systems ,27
Design representations ,26 ,47
Design reviews ,21
Design support tools ,57-60
Design Theory and Methodology Program (National Science Foundation) , 13 ,71
Designed experiments ,28-29
Designers
academic experience for industry-based , 49
methods of obtaining and rewarding ,32-33
as part of change team ,17
qualities necessary for ,30-32
tasks and requirements of ,29-31
Designer's dilemma ,27
Detailed design .See
Parametric design
DF(X) techniques ,26-27
Dissemination of research results ,14 ,47 ,63
E
Education .See
Engineering design education
Embodiment design .See
Configuration design
Energy Department, U.S .,71
Engineering design
as activity of engineers ,35 ,36
benefits of improvement in ,13-14
categories of variables and abstractions of , 51-52
for competitive advantage ,2 ,15-34
elements of supportive environment for , 33-34
function of ,6-9
impact and components of effective ,1 ,10 ,29 ,31
problems with U.S .,1 ,10-13 ,67
research in improving design knowledge base for , 55-56
as task ,29-30
Engineering design education
course outline for university ,30 ,78-80
for faculty ,47-48
goals of ,36-38
improvement in ,2-3 ,12-14 ,44-49
instructional material for ,3 ,47
recommendations for improving ,68-70
Engineering design practices
for competitive advantage ,2 ,15-33 ,67
overview of ,19-20
recommendations for improving ,4 ,68
traditional ,20-22
Engineering design research
dissemination of results to industry ,63-64
efforts to revitalize university ,13
and establishment of consortium for engineering design , 64-66
recommendations for improving ,71-73
topical agenda for ,52-53
Engineering design research topics
creating and improving design support tools , 57-60
developing scientific foundations for models and methods , 53-57
relating design to business ,60-62
Engineering design support tools ,57-60
Engineering design theory
assessment of research in ,11 ,51
National Science Foundation's program in , 13
Engineering Research Centers (National Science Foundation) , 13 ,71
Engineers, activities of ,11 ,36
Environmental issues ,52
F
Faculty members .See
University faculty
First-Cut system ,59
Fisher, R. A .,29
Focus on the Future (National Academy of Engineering) , 41
Foreign competition, forced awareness due to , 16
G
GE-Hitachi ,27
Graduate engineering design education ,2 ,3 ,37-38 ,41-42 .See also
Engineering design education
H
Hewlett-Packard ,16 ,17 ,76-77
I
Incremental improvement ,28
Industry .See also
U.S. industry
dissemination of research results to ,63-64
interaction between universities, research and , 3 ,4 ,12 ,48-49 ,72
need for commitment for continuous improvement , 15-17
Initiative for Engineering Design ,71
Innovation process ,61-62
Instructional materials, national clearing house for , 3 ,47
Interdisciplinary design teams
in industry ,18-19
to support design education process ,61
J
L
Lead time .See
Time to market
Life cycle curve ,23
Literature, study of engineering ,20
M
Manufacturing process design ,19
Market share ,9
Metrology tools ,21
MICON system ,59
N
National clearinghouse for instructional material , 3 ,47
National Consortium for Engineering Design (NCED) , 4 ,64-66 ,72-73
National Institute of Standards and Technology . See
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technolgy
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Engineering Research Centers ,13
support for faculty by ,70
O
Organization models ,61
P
Patents ,20
Pedersen, Donald ,28
Peer design reviews ,21
Petroski, Henry ,33
Physical prototyping ,58-59
PIMS data base ,5-7
Polaroid's Product Delivery Process ,75-76
Polya, G .,32-33
Product quality-cost models ,21 ,23 ,60
Product realization process (PRP)
elements and use of ,2 ,16-19 ,29 ,30
examples of ,75-77
focus of engineering curricula on ,12
management's understanding of ,11
setting strategy and specifications for , 21
Production ,19
Products
concept to delivery time of U.S .,9
difficulties in design of complex ,7-9 ,19
Professional engineering societies ,45 ,70
Professional journals ,41
Profitability ,5-6
Q
Quality
impact of component ,7-9
relationship between profitability and , 5-6
Quality-cost models ,21 ,23 ,60
Quality function deployment (QFD) ,23
Quality-loss function ,25-26
R
Research .See
Engineering design research ;
Engineering design research topics
Return on investment ,7
Robust design ,28
S
“S” curve ,23
Simplification ,27-28
Simulation ,21 ,26 ,53 ,54 ,58 ,62 ,76
Simultaneous engineering .See
Concurrent engineering
Six sigma approach ,25-26
Societies, professional engineering ,45 ,70
Software design ,10
SPICE program ,28
Spira, Joel ,30
Standards ,20
Steel industry ,5
Synthesis models ,56-57
T
Time to market ,1 ,4 ,23 ,30 ,33 ,50 ,51 ,60
Trade balance .See
Trade deficit
Trade deficit ,6
U
Undergraduate engineering design education , 2 ,36-41 .See also
Engineering design education
Universities .See also
Engineering design education
faculty members in ,42-44
graduate engineering design education in , 2 ,3 ,37-38 ,41-42
inadequacies of design education in ,2 ,3 ,12-13 ,38-44 ,47
initiatives for reform in ,45-47 ,68-69
interaction between industry, research, and , 3 ,4 ,12 ,48-49 ,72
undergraduate engineering design education in , 2 ,36-41
University faculty
industrial experience for ,48-49 ,72
limitations of ,42-44
methods of support for ,47-48 ,70
U.S. industry .See also
Industry
benefits of improvement in design practice on , 13-14
current state of design in ,10-13
decline in world dominance of ,5
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 71
V
Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design , 10
W
Wilson, E. Bright ,32
