Deck 6: Product Design

Question 1

Concurrent design

A)uses a price-minus costing system.
B)decreases design cost,but may lengthen design time.
C)reduces design time,but increases design cost.
D)is easier to coordinate than sequential design

Answer 1

A

Question 2

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)Benchmarking
C)Reverse engineering
D)Design for manufacture

Answer 2

C

Question 3

___________ yields a product or service designed to withstand variations in environmental and operating conditions.

A)Quality function deployment
B)Robust design
C)Concurrent design
D)Computer-aided design

Answer 3

B

Question 4

The computer lab recently installed a new printer for student use.In the past 4 hours the printer has quit working 8 times.The lab monitor takes around 15 minutes to fix the printer each time it fails.What percent of the time is the printer actually available for student use?

A)33%
B)35%
C)50%
D)67%

Question 5

A complex computer program that tests and analyzes designs on the computer screen is called

A)Computer-aided design CAD)
B)Computer-aided design and manufacture CAD/CAM)
C)Computer-aided engineering CAE)
D)Computer-aided process planning CAPP)

Question 6

______________ refers to the ease with which a product can be repaired.

A)Maintainability
B)Reliability
C)Usability
D)System availability

Question 7

FMEA is a ________ for analyzing failures and the effects of those failures.

A)mathematical model
B)government agency
C)house-like diagram
D)systematical approach,usually in the form of a table,

Question 8

An effective design process will

A)Reduce time-to-market for a new product
B)Minimize the number of revisions necessary to make a design workable
C)Match product characteristics with customer requirements
D)All of the above

Question 9

Good design practices include

A)designing unique parts for each product
B)simplifying the design
C)using separate fasteners when possible
D)all of the above

Question 10

A product consists of three serial components with reliabilities of 0.70,0.80,and 0.90.If all of the components must work for the product to work,the product reliability is

A)0.80
B)2.40
C)0.90
D)0.50

Question 11

Holding a company responsible for its product even after its useful life is known as

A)Sustainability
B)Green sourcing
C)Extended producer responsibility
D)Carbon footprinting

Question 12

_____________ measures)the amount of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming and climate change.

A)Extended producer responsibility
B)Sustainability
C)Eco-labeling
D)Carbon footprints

Question 13

______ is used to compare customer perceptions of different products on two different dimensions.

A)A perceptual map
B)Benchmarking
C)Robust design
D)Design for manufacture

Question 14

The House of Quality

A)converts the voice of the customer into technical design requirements.
B)is one of the matrices used in quality function deployment.
C)does not produce an optimal solution.
D)All of the above

Question 15

Put the following design outputs in order of completion: 1)prototype,2)performance specs,3)manufacturing specs,4)design specs

A)1,2,3,4
B)4,1,3,2
C)2,1,4,3
D)1,4,2,3

Question 16

_______ is a process for eliminating unnecessary functions or features in a design.

A)QFD
B)VA
C)FTA
D)FMEA

Question 17

In the house of quality,the roof matrix shows the interrelationship among

A)Customer requirements
B)Customer perceptions
C)Design characteristics
D)Target design values

Question 18

_______ keeps)track of design changes throughout the life of a product.

A)Product life-cycle management PLM)
B)Collaborative product design CPD)
C)Computer-aided design CAD)
D)Engineering change orders ECO)