Value%20Engineering%20Workshop%20MECH%20497

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Value Engineering Workshop MECH 497

• Professor Paul Zsombor-Murray
• http//www.cim.mcgill.ca/paul
• Professor Vince Thomson
• Lucie Parrot, Certified Value Specialist

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Value Engineering

• A philosophy implemented by the
• use of a specific set of techniques,
• a body of knowledge, and
• a group of learned skills.
• It is an organized creative approach
• which has as its purpose the
• efficient identification of unnecessary cost,
  i.e.,
• cost which provides neither quality, nor use,
• nor appearance, nor customer features."  
• Lawrence Miles, 1946, General Electric Co.

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Value Engineering

• A formalized method to
• select customer critical functions
• quantify value
• relate customer benefits to costs
• create and select alternatives
• reduce costs
• focus on effective action
• Systems Approach
• focused on customer and performance
• applied at all stages of operation

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Value Engineering

• Applications
• design, manufacture, inspection, procurement,
• installation, maintenance, i.e.,
• the total life cycle of product, process, or
  service
• Other terms
• Value Engineering ? Value Analysis, Value
  Improvement
• Value Management - benefit/cost of all activities

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Value Engineering

• 5 phase job plan
• Information
• Speculation
• Evaluation
• Development
• Persuasion

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Value Engineering

• Information
• get the facts about the problem
• define the functions FUNCTIONAL
• evaluate the functions ANALYSIS
• Speculation
• define alternatives CREATIVE
• TECHNIQUES
• Evaluation
• develop specifics for alternatives
• costing, value matrix VALUE
• comparative cost-value chart ANALYSIS

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Value Engineering

• Development
• decide on alternatives
• prepare implementation plans
• Persuasion
• report solution and action plan
• anticipate roadblocks
• SELL PLAN TO CUSTOMER

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Value Engineering

• Used by major corporations
• in the new product introduction process (NPI),
• in product/process renewal,
• in quality assurance programs,
• GE, IBM, Pratt Whitney, Hydro Quebec, Transport
  Ontario, Alberta Infrastructure,.
• VE is required for government contracts in the
  USA and in other countries.
• Many professional organizations in several
  countries
• Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE)
• Canadian Society for Value Analysis (CSVA SCAV)

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Value Engineering Workshop

• Course Outline
• Course Notes
• Course notes on line. Download address given in
  class.
• Hard copy no longer supplied but you can print
  one.
• No text book.

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Dates
Student Organization Workshop Sessions Trial Presentation Final Presentation
14-Jan-19 21-Jan-98 19-Mar-18 25-Mar-19
28-Jan-19
04-Feb-19
18-Feb-19
11-Mar-19
at McGill New Residence Hall, 3525 ave. du
Parc
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Organization

• Course times 1330 - 2130 hrs MD 267
• Lecture 1330-1500
• Coffee 1500
• Project 1515-2130
• Dinner 1745-1845 (Royal Victoria residence)
• Evaluation
• Companies participate in the evaluation of
  students.

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Organization

• 4-7 projects
• 4-7 teams of 7-4 students, 1-2 company engineers
• Need a captain and a scribe
• Attendance is mandatory at all classes.
  (Conflicts)
• Conduct
• Towards companies
• professional, confidentiality, intellectual
  property
• Towards peers
• fairness participate, share workload

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Projects

• Clear-Com Haptic intercom key panels
• Groupe Lacasse Furniture materials cost
  optimization
• MDA Antenna array alignment fixture design
• Revision Military Helmet composites improvement
• Velan Valve performance warranty
• Vortex Water park play accessories
• Siemens To be specified
• (Winter 2019 list to be posted 19-01-13.

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Electrochemical waste water treatment
WETT raw sewage to clean dischargeable water
(a previous prospect)
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CAE Trainer/Simulator
A previous project
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A current project
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Value Engineering Workshop

• Sign up and preference sheet
• Information
• http//www.mcgill.ca/ve
• http//www.mcgill.ca/paul Look _at_ stuff from last
  year, e.g., sample final reports this slide
  sequence, until new stuff is posted.