Product Development Toolkit|
NOTE: All tools listed on this page may be purchased as part of
the Product Development Toolkit to be used as part of the PD-Trak
Project File structure, or may be purchased on an individual basis (contact
us for individual tool pricing).
- Bill of Materials and Supplier Plan. The Bill of
Material Worksheet provides a flexible tool to develop a preliminary
engineering bill of material. It provides single and multiple level
views and maintains a variety of related information. Items are coded as
make, buy or standard and buy items can be automatically moved to the
Supplier Plan to aid and track sourcing decisions. The Bill of Material
Worksheet also includes integrated cost roll-up capabilities and
comparison to target costs. Click
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- Control Plan. Control Plans aid in the manufacture
of quality products to meet customer requirements. The Control Plan
provide a written description of the process and quality controls to
assure an acceptable product and to minimize product and process
- Design for Manufacturability & Assembly Evaluation.
Design for Assembly (DFA) refers to the principles of designing products
so that they are more manufacturable. The DFA Assessment Worksheet
provides a simple to use assessment methodology to evaluate concepts and
designs early in the development process before sufficient information
may be available to use more formal DFM/A analysis software or companies
that don't want to make a more significant investment in DFA software.
- Design for Manufacturability Guidelines. Design for
Manufacturability/Assembly Checklist/Guidelines are included to aid
designers develop producible designs. These checklists/guidelines can be
adapted to the company's specific product and process requirements. The
checklists/guidelines cover assembly, printed circuits, machining,
sheetmetal, and injection molding.
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis. Failure Modes
and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a methodology for analyzing potential
product and process reliability problems early in the development cycle
where it is easier to take actions to overcome these issues, thereby
enhancing reliability through design. The FMEA Worksheet is used to
identify potential failure modes, determine their effect on the
operation of the product or process, and identify actions to mitigate
- Product Map. A graphical worksheet that can
be used to capture the planned development of new products that relate
to a product line, on a time line.
- Quality Function Deployment. Quality function
deployment is a structured planning and decision-making methodology for
capturing customer needs (voice of the customer) and translating those
needs into product requirements or technical characteristics, part
characteristics, process plans and quality plans. PD-Trak provides a
series of planning matrices to document the information and plans
developed during this process. These include a Product Planning Matrix
(house of quality), Concept Selection Matrix, Deployment Matrix, and
Process Planning Matrix. Note that the Control Plan serves as the
planning matrix for process and quality control.
- Radar Chart. A graphical tool for comparing
the key attributes of a new product to competitive products or
- Target Costing Workbook. Target costing
establishes a market-driven target price to be successful and derives a
target cost to drive product development. Includes a Target Cost
Calculation Worksheet, a Target Cost Evaluation Worksheet, and a Target
Cost Tracking Worksheet and Charts.