Product design process with included producibility information
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsLowell Wilson Bauer, Marc Thomas Edgar
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Abstract
A method for providing producibility information to a user during a design process includes providing process capability models with integrated coaching information and providing a producibility evaluation worksheet having at least one input and at least one output, the input being selectable to represent a specific design. The worksheet is initialized with a relevant process capability model that is used to determine a producibility measure indicating an effect of the input on the output. The producibility measure is then displayed to the user.
Claims5
A method for providing producibility information to a user during a braze joint design process comprising the steps of
- providing a process capability database configured to be populated with a plurality of historical process capability data obtained from manufacturing process of said braze joint;
- providing a process capability model with integrated coaching information;
- said process capability model configured to correlate at least one design input variable of said braze joint with said process capability data to assess capability of said manufacturing process for producing said braze joint design;
- providing a producibility evaluation worksheet having at least one predetermined design input variable and at least one predetermined design output variable;
- initializing said producibility evaluation worksheet with said process capability model with integrated coaching information to indicate effect of altering said at least one design input variable on said design output variable;
- determining from said process capability model a plurality of producibility measures for said braze joint indicating an yield of said design output variable of the braze joint;
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- displaying said producibility measure to the user.
A computer enabled apparatus for providing producibility information to a user during a braze joint design process the apparatus including instructions for causing said apparatus to implement a method comprising:
- providing a process capability database configured to be populated with a plurality of historical process capability data obtained from manufacturing process of said braze joint;
- providing a process capability model with integrated coaching information;
- said process capability model configured to correlate at least one design input variable of said braze joint with said process capability data to assess capability of said manufacturing process for producing said braze joint design;
- providing a producibility evaluation worksheet having at least one predetermined design input variable and at least one predetermined design output variable;
- initializing said producibility evaluation worksheet with said process capability model with integrated coaching information to indicate effect of altering said at least one design input variable on said design output variable;
- determining from said process capability model a plurality of producibility measures for said braze joint indicating an yield of said design output variable of the braze joint;
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- displaying said producibility measure to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.