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Right By Design - A Novel Approach to Failure Mode Avoidance (Paperback)
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Right By Design - A Novel Approach to Failure Mode Avoidance (Paperback)
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Product design is becoming increasingly challenging as product
complexity increases dramatically with the advent of autonomous
control and the need to achieve zero emissions. Companies continue
to have poor product launches with significant numbers of recall
campaigns and high after-sales warranties. It is important that
potential product failures are identified and fixed during the
design of a product. Failure modes found late after the design has
matured are normally easy to find with some being identified by the
customer but are often difficult and expensive to fix since
modifying one part will often have a knock-on effect on other parts
causing other problems. Discovering failure modes early in the
design process is often difficult requiring rigorous and
comprehensive analysis but once found such failure modes are
usually easy and cheap to fix. This book presents an approach to
product design based on Failure Mode Avoidance that utilizes a
series of strongly interrelated engineering tools and interpersonal
skills that can be used to discover failure modes early in the
design process. The tools can be used across engineering
disciplines. Despite engineering being largely a team activity, it
is often the case that little attention is paid to the team process
after the team membership has been identified, with membership
normally being based on technical expertise. In addition to
technical expertise, an effective engineering team requires
individual engineers to work together efficiently. Good leadership
is also required with the leader able to both manage change and
encourage individual team members to work to the best of their
ability. The book interweaves technical skills, team skills, and
team leadership in a way that reflects their real-life
interrelationship. The book tells the fictional story of a small
engineering team and its leader as they implement the skills
introduced in the book and follows their experiences reflecting
individual difficulties, enthusiasm, humor, and skepticism in
applying the methodologies and tools for the first time. In
addition, the story tells of team members' interactions with their
management and peers within a company that, having been very
successful, finds itself in financial difficulties. It promotes
constructivist learning through the reader empathizing with the
characters in the book. These characters ask questions that are
typical of those that learners will ask about the subject matter.
Learning reinforcement is also integrated into the storyline as a
natural and unobtrusive feature. The book is intended to be read
like a novel from cover to cover with a storyline that motivates
the reader to read on. While including in-depth technical examples
the book is not intended as a seminal text on Failure Mode
Avoidance or team skills but is intended to give the reader an
understanding such that they are motivated to learn more. Having
read the book, it can be treated more typically as a textbook by
returning to some of the technical detail or looking to further
reading such as that identified in the book.
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