Total Design

Pugh, S. (1991). Total Design: Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering. Addison-Wesley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1991

Link

https://archive.org/details/totaldesigninteg0000pugh

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engineering_design

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Primes

• Divergence-Convergence in the Design Process
  • The structured evaluation and selection criteria applied during convergence, trading off multiple objectives and constraints
• Margin of Safety
  • The explicit reservation of capacity above the nominal expected demand

Mechanisms

• Comparison Table
  • They build a comparison table in the spirit of a Pugh matrix:
• Design Downselection
  • Its strength is that it refuses premature commitment to a single architecture: it keeps several genuinely different approaches alive at low cost and reserves expensive engineering for the ones a structured rough comparison endorses — the logic of Pugh controlled convergence

    This sourceDescribes Pugh controlled convergence as an iterative concept-selection matrix that scores alternatives against a datum and repeats the cycle.

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