Paper format. Three hours, OPEN BOOK, one approved calculator. Question 1 is compulsory and carries 40 marks; four of the six remaining questions are chosen, each worth 15 marks, for 100 marks. Most answers are expected in essay or tabular form, and the paper states plainly that clarity and organisation of the answer are themselves being marked. Every one of the seven questions is answered here, not the five that would be marked on the day, because this is a study resource.
Question 1 is lettered A to E with no per-part mark split printed, and the three products offered are a PC case, a bicycle and a cell phone.
Reference texts for this subject
- K. T. Ulrich and S. D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development — the framework text for this paper: development phases, concept selection, product specifications, design for manufacturing, product architecture.
- G. E. Dieter and L. C. Schmidt, Engineering Design — design process, decision methods, cost evaluation and life-cycle thinking.
- G. Pahl, W. Beitz, J. Feldhusen and K.-H. Grote, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach — function structures and systematic embodiment design.
- G. Boothroyd, P. Dewhurst and W. A. Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly — the DFA index, handling and insertion time data, and the part-reduction criteria used throughout Question 1 and Question 7.
- M. F. Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design — material indices and the translate / screen / rank / document procedure.
- S. Kalpakjian and S. R. Schmid, Manufacturing Engineering and Technology — process capability, tooling economics and the cost-versus-volume model.
- M. P. Groover, Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing — takt time, line balancing, productivity measures.
- R. G. Cooper, Winning at New Products — the stage-gate process and the expected commercial value gate criterion.
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office, A Guide to Patents, and the Patent Act, RSC 1985, c. P-4 — the statutory frame for Question 4.
