Product Design Best Practices

50 Industry-Inspired Best Practices for Quality Products

There are 50 worksheets that support product development and the Best Practices in the book. They are all in Excel and they are all editable for use for your particular problem. They are yours for free. All can be used alone, but the material in the book gives guidance for their best use.

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Section 2: Design Process Fundamentals
1 Learning DeBrief Worksheet 2.1
1 VUCA+ Worksheet 2.3
1 Pro/Con Worksheet 2.4
1 Pairwise Comparison Worksheet 2.4
1 Decision Matrix Worksheet 2.4
Section 3: Design Teams
1 Team Contract 3.1
1 Team Meeting Minutes Worksheet 3.1
1 Personal Problem Solving 3.2
1 Team Environment Worksheet 3.3
1 Team Health Worksheet 3.4
Section 4: Building Problem
1 Product Proposal Worksheet 4.1
1 Project Proposal Worksheet 4.1
1 Stakeholder Worksheet 4.2
1 Requirments Checklist Worksheet 4.3
1 Requirements Worksheet 4.4
1 Product Decomposition Worksheet: 4.5
1 Product Decomposition Worksheet: 4.5
1 Product Decomposition Worksheet: 4.5
1 Product Decomposition Worksheet: 4.5
1 Engineering Specifications 4.6
1 QFD worksheet 4.7
Section 5. Planning the Design Process
1 Prototype Proposal Worksheet 5.1
1 Task Worksheet 5.1
1 Task Short-Form Worksheet 5.1
1 Esitmation Worksheet 5.2
1 Task ranking Worksheet 5.3
1 Gantt Chart Worksheet 5.4
1 Task board Worksheet 5.4
1 Design Review worksheet 5.5
Section 6: Concept Generation
1 Morphology Worksheet 6.1
1 Interfaces Worksheet 6.3
1 Function Model Worksheet 6.4
1 Bill of Materials (BOM) 6.5
Section 7: Uncertainty Evaluation
1 Design Technology Readiness 7.1
1 Hazard Assessment Worksheet 7.2
1 Factor of Safety Worksheet 7.3
1 Additive Tolerance Stack-up 7.4
1 Statistical Stack-up Worksheet 7.4
Section 8. Performance Evaluation
1 Evaluation of System Worksheet 8.1
1 DOE/Robust Design L4 8.3
1 DOE/Robust Design L8 8.3
Section 9. Product Evaluation for X
1 Cost of Machined Components 9.1
1 Cost of Plastic Injection Molded 9.1
1 Cost of PCBs Worksheet 9.1
1 Design for Assembly Worksheet 9.3
1 Design for reliability Worksheet 9.4
1 Design for Test and Maintenability Worksheet 9.5
1 Product Lifecycle Evaluation Worksheet 9.6
Section 10. Post Design Concerns
1 Engineering Change Notice Worksheet 10.1
1 Patent Specification Worksheet 10.