The purpose of this paper is using the concepts of value engineering (VE) in evaluating the improvement caused by preventive maintenance (PM) systems in construction project. A real case is used to show how we can implement the proposed method. VE is the systematic application of recognized techniques by multi-disciplined teams that identifies the function of a product or service, establishes a...

Manufacturers around the globe are competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to survive in the competitive and complex market. This paper is intended to investigate implementation of Value Engineering (VE) technique into the product design concept for necessary changes in design of the humidifier system in order to lower unnecessary costs and to increase quality of the p...

The critical product planning phase, early in the product development cycle, requires a design tool to set engineering priorities, capable of selecting the preferred design concept and setting target levels of engineering performance to guide the later product development stages, while considering the needs of both the consumer and producer. The Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method was deve...

There are increasing global demands for environmental friendly products. Green Quality Function Deployment – III (GQFD – III) is an innovative tool aiding in the development of environmentally conscious products and processes. An improved version of GQFD – III, Green Quality Function Deployment – IV (GQFD – IV) has been developed in this study. Its improvement over GQFD – III is that the life c...

This paper describes a method for conducting worth feasibility evaluation (WFE) in innovative product development. The method uses an enhanced quality function deployment matrix to identify the effects of multiple, possibly conflicting, engineering solutions on the product attributes being developed. The WFE allows product developers to assess whether their proposed engineering approach to exec...

in this ever changing business scenario, success of the company lies in understanding the customer preferences, tastes and anticipating the changes required in existing or new products being offered. it was desired to develop a model which allows decision makers to decompose a complex problem in a hierarchical structure to show the relationship of the goals, objectives, criteria and alternative...

the past, the process capability index (PCI) was the only one used in on-line quality management; there were no researches on off-line applications, such as product design or process planning. In using conventional PCI for off-line application, designers normally established the process mean close to the design target, and minimized the process variance so that the PCI value would be maximized....

Due to the development of science and technology, the computer has become a useful tool for supporting engineering activities in product design. Many computer aided tools such as CAD/CAM, product data management (PDM), product life cycle assessment (PLA), etc., have been popularly used in industry for reducing product development lead-time and increasing total product quality. However, the nume...

Quality function deployment (QFD) is a systematic process for translating customer needs into engineering characteristics, and then communicating them throughout the enterprise in a way to ensure that details are quantified and controlled. The inherent fuzziness of relationships in QFD modeling justifies the use of fuzzy regression for estimating the relationships between both customer needs an...

manufacturers around the globe are competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to survive in the competitive and complex market. this paper is intended to investigate implementation of value engineering (ve) technique into the product design concept for necessary changes in design of the humidifier system in order to lower unnecessary costs and to increase quality of the p...