Paper format. National Exams, May 2018, 16-Mec-B5 Product Design and Development — THREE (3) hours, OPEN BOOK, one approved Casio or Sharp calculator permitted. Question 1 is compulsory and carries 40 marks; four of the remaining six questions are chosen, each worth 15 marks, for 100 marks in total. Only the first five questions appearing in the answer book are marked. Most answers are expected in essay form or as tables, figures and charts, and clarity and organisation carry marks in their own right.
Scope of this solution. All seven questions are answered in full, not the five a candidate would attempt, so that the paper works as a study resource. Where the examiner offers a choice of product, one is selected and carried consistently through every part, which is exactly what the question's own guidance note asks for. Numeric illustrations are engineering estimates built from stated, ordinary data; every one of them.
Reference texts for 22-Mec-B5.
- Ulrich, K. T. and Eppinger, S. D., Product Design and Development, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill — the framework text for this exam code (development process, concept selection, product architecture, DFM, economics).
- Dieter, G. E. and Schmidt, L. C., Engineering Design, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill — problem definition, requirement cascades, material and process selection, design for X.
- Pahl, G., Beitz, W., Feldhusen, J. and Grote, K.-H., Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, 3rd ed., Springer — systematic embodiment design and the function structure.
- Boothroyd, G., Dewhurst, P. and Knight, W., Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, 3rd ed., CRC Press — the DFA index and process-based cost estimating.
- Ashby, M. F., Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, 5th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann — material indices, screening and ranking, process-cost models.
- Kalpakjian, S. and Schmid, S. R., Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, 7th ed., Pearson — process capability and manufacturing constraints on design.
- Cooper, R. G., Winning at New Products, 5th ed., Basic Books — stage-gate governance and gate criteria.
- Vaver, D., Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patents, Trade-marks, 2nd ed., Irwin Law, together with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) guides — the Canadian statutory frame for Question 4.
