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C III P P & D A: 3.1. Project Planning

The document discusses the planning and analysis steps for a design project. It outlines the key phases of project planning, concept development, preliminary design, detail design, and implementation. It also discusses using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to define target specifications by identifying customer needs and their relationship to engineering specifications. This includes using a House of Quality matrix to evaluate relationships and determine the most important specifications. Finally, it discusses the conceptual design phase, including identifying functions, generating concepts, combining concepts, and selecting concepts using a Pugh matrix approach.

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C III P P & D A: 3.1. Project Planning

The document discusses the planning and analysis steps for a design project. It outlines the key phases of project planning, concept development, preliminary design, detail design, and implementation. It also discusses using Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to define target specifications by identifying customer needs and their relationship to engineering specifications. This includes using a House of Quality matrix to evaluate relationships and determine the most important specifications. Finally, it discusses the conceptual design phase, including identifying functions, generating concepts, combining concepts, and selecting concepts using a Pugh matrix approach.

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CHAPTER III

PROJECT PLANNING & DATA ANALYSIS

3.1. Project Planning

Project planning is the first step in any

Concept Preliminary Detail Implementation


Development Design Design & Testing

Fig 3.1 Process Steps for the Proposed Design

Fig 3.2 Gantt chart of the Project

3.2. Target Specifications of the Design

In order to understand the design process, customer needs should be translated into a
measurable engineering specification, so it can be used as selection criteria between
the different generated concepts. Many techniques can be used to establish target
engineering specifications one of the most popular techniques which will be used in
the current development process is Quality function deployment method (QFD).

QFD technique aims to reach customer satisfaction by identifying the customer


requirements, and the technical specifications which affect those needs. It also sets the
target specifications of the design problem by prioritizing the technical specifications
according to its effectiveness on the identified customer needs. Although QFD may
likely increase the initial design phase time duration, it increases the quality of the
final design process phase and reduces its duration as well.

Fig. 3.3 Life Cycle Diagram for Product Design

Moreover, when QFD is applied successfully, it reduces the total development


process cost, because it eliminates regenerating and redesigning new concepts as
shown in figure 3.3.

House of Quality is very important for the study in the design process. One of the
applications of QFD method is House of Quality which is a sequence of steps to reach
the final target specifications needed and their priorities in the design process. The
House of Quality consists of six main steps: identify customers, gather customer
requirements, establish engineering specifications, determine the relationship between
customer requirements and engineering specification, set the final target specification
information, and at last determine the engineering specifications correlation.

3.2.1. Customer Requirements

3.2.2. House of Quality Structure


After determining the relationship between customer requirements and engineering
specification, the relationship between customer requirements and engineering
specifications are added according to the design team evaluation and discussion in a
form of determined symbols as shown in figure 3.4.
According the relation added for each specification a final score is calculated by
summation of the multiplication of rating factor and the relation between the
specification and the customer requirement, then engineering specifications are
ranked according to the total score.

Fig. 3.4 House of Quality Structure for Obtaining Technical Assessment

The conclusion of figure 3.4 above is that the most important parameters are the
automatic rotation and the closable door.

3.3. Conceptual Design

It is the creative phase of the design process. The objective of the conceptual design
phase is generating the most available design concepts according to the function
structure established for the process and final selection for the proposed concept.

3.3.1. Function Identification


In this design process step the main function and subfunctions are identified so that it
is easier in the concept generation process.
Main function: storing and sorting rotogravure cylinders.
Subfunctions: - Cylinder Transportation
- Cylinder Handling
- Power Supply
- Safety

3.3.2. Concept Generation

In this design process step concepts are developed to satisfy the needs and the
characteristics of each function and subfunction of the designed system.

Product: Vertical Storage Carousel Organization Name: General Print


Sub functions Concept 1 Concept 2
Cylinder Transportation Vertical Rotation Horizontal Rotation

Power Supply Motor Hand Crank

Cylinder Handling Shelves Flange

Safety Enclosed
In the table above, each subfunction is listed and for each subfunction, all possible
concepts are listed.

3.3.3. Concept Combination

In this design process step the concepts of each subfunction developed in the
morphology table are combined to form concepts for the whole system

Concept 1: Vertical rotation + Motor + Shelves + Enclosed

Concept 2: Horizontal rotation + Motor + Shelves + Enclosed

Concept 3: Vertical rotation + Hand crank + Shelves + Enclosed

Concept 4: Horizontal rotation + Hand crank + Shelves + Enclosed

Concept 5: Vertical rotation + Motor + Flange + Enclosed

Concept 6: Horizontal rotation + Motor + Flange + Enclosed

Concept 7: Vertical rotation + Hand crank + Flange + Enclosed

Concept 8: Horizontal rotation + Hand crank + Flange + Enclosed


3.3.4. Concept Selection

In this design process step, the combined concepts are compared to choose the most
promising concept. The selection will be done using Pugh's decision matrix.

Pugh’s method is developed as a decision-making method, it is chosen for decision


making process, because it is simple and needs minimum quality information
regarding to other methods. It depends on a comparison between different alternatives
according to the selected criteria and it consists of six main steps: state the issue,
select alternatives, choose the selection criteria, develop the relative importance
weight, evaluate alternatives, and compute the weighted factor [17].

State the Issue

First step is to choose the issue which is "Choose a concept for spraying system
improvement."

Select Alternatives

According to the concept generation process, nine concepts are generated for spraying
system will be compared according to the criteria which will be chosen in the next
step.

Choose the Selection Criteria

As it is mentioned before the effectiveness of the selection process depends on two


main factors. The second factor is selecting the criteria for comparison, so it is
necessary to choose the most relative criteria according to customer requirements and
engineering specifications established in QFD method in the previous phases.

Develop the Relative Importance Weight

Since all the selected criteria have the same importance, each criterion is weighted
according to the QFD method and a discussion between the design team members.

Evaluate Alternatives
Then one of the concepts should be chosen as datum which is used as reference for
the evaluation of alternatives. Concept five (Vertical rotation + Motor + Flange +
Enclosed) is selected as a datum by a design team discussion, and it is scored "0" for
all comparisons to the selected criteria. ?For each comparison, all concepts are scored
either to be better than "+1", as same as "0", or worse than "-1" the datum.

Compute the Weighted Score

Finally, each score is multiplied by its weight, and overall scores are calculated for
each alternative. Then they are compared together to find the most positive
alternative, and it will be used as proposed solution in the next design phases. If all
scores are less than zero, the datum would be selected as the best concept.

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