Deck 4: Product Design

Question 1

Products assembled in modules can be easier to repair and maintain.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

An effective design process matches product characteristics with customer requirements.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

One of the factors supporting the increase in new products has been advances in the technology available for designing products.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Form design refers to the physical appearance of a product.

Question 5

The final design consists of detailed drawings and specifications for the new product.

Question 6

Establishing multifunctional design teams can help reduce the time-to-market.

Question 7

Modular design combines standardized building blocks, or modules, to create unique finished products.

Question 8

One quantitative measure of maintainability is mean time to repair (MTTR).

Question 9

Modular design is one way to gain the benefits of standardization without losing the advantage of variety and uniqueness.

Question 10

Using a cross-functional team to design new products is known as concurrent design.

Question 11

Concurrent design is often aided by the use of technology.

Question 12

Employing a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures is known as design for manufacture (DFM).

Question 13

Product design has a tremendous impact on the quality of a manufactured good or service.

Question 14

Creating preliminary design models that are quickly tested and either discarded or further refined is known as rapid prototyping.

Question 15

A product's reliability is a function of the reliabilities of its component parts, but not a function of how those parts are arranged.

Question 16

To increase system reliability redundant parts can be built in to back up a failure.

Question 17

Product life cycle (PLC) systems maintain design data from product conception to retirement excluding minor design updates.

Question 18

Concurrent design may involve simultaneously designing products and their production processes.

Question 19

Comparing a product or process against the best-in-class is known as reverse engineering.

Question 20

Dismantling and inspecting a competitor's product to identify design features that might be used to improve your own product is known as reverse engineering.

Question 21

Collaborative product design (CPD) software provides interconnectivity among members of a product's supply chain.

Question 22

Worldwide, extended producer responsibility (EPR) is becoming an important factor influencing product design for personal computers and some household appliances.

Question 23

Product design begins with

A) a feasibility study.
B) a form design.
C) understanding the customer and identifying customer needs.
D) pilot runs and final tests.

Question 24

Products designed to withstand variations in operating conditions are said to be robust.

Question 25

Quality function deployment (QFD) consists of a series of matrix diagrams that define product design changes and the ramifications of implementing those changes.

Question 26

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a concept that holds consumers responsible for their products following the products' useful lives.

Question 27

Carefully dismantling and inspecting a competitor's product to look for design features that can be incorporated into your own product is known as

A) concurrent design.
B) design for manufacturability.
C) benchmarking.
D) reverse engineering.

Question 28

Incorporating the voice of the customer into technical product design requirements is known as quality function deployment (QFD).

Question 29

Which of the following is not a characteristic of an effective product design process?

A) matches product characteristics with customer requirements
B) maximizes the revisions necessary to make a design workable
C) ensures that customer requirements are met in the least costly and simplest manner
D) reduces the time required to design a new product or service

Question 30

Design can provide a competitive edge by

A) bringing products to market quickly.
B) doing an even better job of satisfying customers.
C) being easier to manufacture, use and repair.
D) All these answer choices are correct.

Question 31

Reliability is the probability that a given part or product will perform its intended function for a specified length of time under adverse operating conditions.

Question 32

The house of quality, the most popular quality function deployment (QFD) matrix, converts product design specifications into customer requirements.

Question 33

Value analysis is often utilized by a multifunctional product design team as part of design review.

Question 34

All of the following are characteristics of an effective design process except

A) increasing the design time for new products and services.
B) meeting customer requirements in the least costly manner.
C) matching product or service characteristics with customer requirements.
D) minimizing the number of revisions needed to make the design workable.

Question 35

Design review involves identifying possible defects and the value added by each part or component.

Question 36

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Question 37

The allowable range of the variation in a part's design specification is called the signal-to-noise ratio.

Question 38

Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) has replaced computer-aided design (CAD) in the product design process.

Question 39

If a firm's design process is too lengthy

A) a competitor may capture market share by being first to market.
B) a competitor may lose market share by being first to market.
C) a competitor may decide not to enter the market.
D) None of these answers is correct.

Question 40

Computer-aided design (CAD) produces better products but always increases the time to design them.

Question 41

If a piece of equipment has a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 500 hours with a mean time to repair (MTTR) of 10 hours, then its uptime or average availability would be

A) 0.020 or 2.00%
B) 0.980 or 98.00%
C) 0.500 or 50.00%
D) 1.000 or 100.00%

Question 42

If a product fails 10 times in 500 hours of operation, then its mean time between failures (MTBF) is

A) 0.02 hour.
B) 0.10 hour.
C) 20 hours.
D) 50 hours.

Question 43

The probability that a product will perform its intended function for a specified length of time under normal conditions is called

A) benchmarking.
B) perceptual mapping.
C) Maintainability.
D) Reliability.

Question 44

Which of the following will not improve design for manufacture and assembly?

A) minimizing the number of parts and subassemblies
B) using standard parts when possible
C) designing parts for limited, unique uses
D) designing parts for many, varied uses

Question 45

The overall reliability of the following system is

A) greater than 1.00.
B) 0.95.
C) 0.90.
D) 0.898.

Question 46

Which of the following is a quantitative measure of reliability?

A) reliability bar
B) maintainability
C) mean time between failures (MTBF)
D) mean time to repair (MTTR)

Question 47

A company produces a product consisting of two components arranged as follows: Both components must function for the product to function. To achieve an overall reliability of at least 0.95 without changing the reliability of the first component, the reliability of the second component would need to be

A) at least 0.925 .
B) at least 0.95.
C) at least 0.97.
D) at least 0.98.

Question 48

Combining standardized building blocks in different ways to create unique finished products is known as

A) rapid prototyping.
B) robust design.
C) modular design.
D) concurrent design.

Question 49

A feasibility study consists of all the following except

A) a market analysis.
B) an economic analysis.
C) a technical and strategic analysis.
D) a concurrent analysis.

Question 50

A company produces a product consisting of two components arranged as follows: If both components must function for the product to function, then the two components would need individual reliabilities of _______ to achieve an overall reliability of 0.90.

A) R1 = 0.90 and R2 = 0.90
B) R1 = 0.95 and R2 = 0.95
C) R1 = 0.80 and R2 = 0.80
D) R1 = 0.85 and R2 = 0.85

Question 51

The system availability for a system with a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 1000 hours and a mean time to repair (MTTR) of 50 hours would be

A) 100.00%
B) 97.50%
C) 95.24%
D) 4.76%

Question 52

A company produces a product consisting of two components arranged as follows: If both components must function for the product to function, then the product's overall reliability is

A) 0.950
B) 0.940
C) 0.930
D) 0.884

Question 53

A product consists of three components arranged as follows: If all three components must function for the product to function, and the product's overall reliability must be at least 0.92, then the reliability of the first component, R₁, must be

A) at least 0.999.
B) at least 0.84.
C) at least 0.96.
D) at least 0.972.

Question 54

____________________ describe(s) what the product should do to satisfy customer needs.

A) Performance specifications
B) Benchmarks
C) Perceptual maps
D) Reverse engineering

Question 55

For the overall reliability of the following system to be 0.975 or greater the reliability of the backup component, Rb, must be

A) at least 1.00.
B) at least 0.896.
C) at least 0.736.
D) at least 0.534.

Question 56

A product consists of three components arranged as follows: If all three components must function for the product to function, then the product's overall reliability is approximately

A) 0.812.
B) 0.90.
C) 0.933.
D) 0.95.

Question 57

Creating a preliminary design that can be quickly tested and then either discarded or further refined is referred to as

A) Benchmarking.
B) rapid prototyping.
C) concurrent design.
D) perceptual mapping.

Question 58

The overall reliability of the following system is

A) 0.787.
B) 0.85.
C) 0.89.
D) 0.919.

Question 59

_____________________ involves taking into account the capabilities at each level of the supply chain when designing a product.

A) Design for supplier
B) Design for manufacturer
C) Design for supply chain
D) Design for competitor

Question 60

All of the following can improve a product's reliability except

A) simplifying product design.
B) improving individual component reliability.
C) changing the product warranty.
D) adding redundant components..

Question 61

Which of the following techniques would most likely be used to systematically analyze product failures?

A) concurrent design
B) quality function deployment
C) failure mode and effects analysis
D) value analysis

Question 62

Quality function deployment (QFD) is

A) a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
B) a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
C) a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
D) a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Question 63

Fault tree analysis (FTA) is

A) a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
B) a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
C) a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
D) a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Question 64

When a product is designed to withstand variations in environmental and operating conditions, it is known as a) robust design.
B) design for change.
C) design for modification.
D) design for tolerance.

Question 65

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is

A) a software systems that uses computer graphics to assist in designing products.
B) a systematic approach to analyzing the causes and effects of product failures.
C) a visual method for analyzing the interrelationships among failures.
D) a structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.

Question 66

With ___________________, suppliers are encouraged to suggest more environmentally friendly materials, methods and processes.

A) green sourcing
B) green manufacture
C) recycling and reuse
D) green consumption

Question 67

Functional design includes all the following except

A) reliability.
B) usability.
C) form design.
D) maintainability.

Question 68

Simultaneously designing new products and the processes to produce them is known as

A) concurrent design.
B) functional design.
C) modular design.
D) standard design.

Question 69

All of the following are principles of green product design except a) use new materials.
B) use less materials.
C) involve the entire supply chain.
D) change the paradigm of design.

Question 70

Product lifecycle management is a software system that

A) facilitates collaborative design and development among trading partners.
B) stores, retrieves and updates design data through the lifecycle of a product.
C) retrieves the description and geometry of a design from a database, and tests and analyzes that design on a computer screen.
D) assists in the creation, modification and analysis of design.

Question 71

With ___________________, consumers are encouraged to use the product efficiently, repair it when possible and dispose of it responsibly.

A) green sourcing
B) green manufacture
C) recycling and reuse
D) green consumption

Question 72

____________________ is a software system that assists in the creation, modification and analysis of design.

A) Computer aided design
B) Collaborative product design
C) Computer aided engineering
D) None of these answer choices is correct.

Question 73

____________________ is a software system that retrieves the description and geometry of a design from a database, and tests and analyzes that design on a computer screen.

A) Computer aided design
B) Collaborative product design
C) Computer aided engineering
D) None of these answer choices is correct.

Question 74

The ability to meet present needs without compromising those of future generations is a concept in product design known as

A) reusability.
B) maintainability.
C) reliability.
D) sustainability.

Question 75

__________________________is a procedure, used by multifunction design teams, to eliminate unnecessary features and functions from a product design.

A) Failure mode and effects analysis
B) Value analysis
C) Fault tree analysis
D) All of these answer choices is correct.

Question 76

____________________ is a software system that stores, retrieves and updates design data through the lifecycle of a product.

A) Computer aided design
B) Collaborative product design
C) Computer aided engineering
D) None of these answer choices is correct.

Question 77

Which of the following is a quantitative measure of maintainability?

A) design for manufacture (DFM)
B) mean time to repair (MTTR)
C) mean time between failures (MTBF)
D) quality function deployment (QFD)

Question 78

A structured process that translates the voice of the customer into technical design requirements is known as

A) quality function deployment (QFD).
B) failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).
C) concurrent design.
D) robust product design.

Question 79

The Taguchi Quality Loss Function implies that a

A) customer's dissatisfaction increases geometrically as the actual value deviates from the target value.
B) customer's satisfaction increases geometrically as the actual value deviates from the target value.
C) customer's dissatisfaction decreases geometrically as the actual value deviates from the target value.
D) customer's preferences are strongly oriented towards conforming to specifications.

Question 80

____________________ is a software system that facilitates collaborative design and development among trading partners.

A) Computer aided design
B) Collaborative product design
C) Computer aided engineering
D) None of these answer choices is correct.