MGT713 -= Production / Operations Management Assignment No. 01 Fall 2014



With the expansion of the businesses across different territories, the collaborative product design and manufacturing is becoming more important for the organizations. Sometimes, the organizations are unable to successfully add value to the system at various steps in the supply chain, because they fail to inculcate all the product/ process knowledge gained at different steps in the whole value chain. Also, the deficiencies in the design process arise due to inadequate traditional failure detection approach which leads to failures of the
product design, also adds to this problem. An effective collaborative product design and manufacturing implemented for the scattered teams through internet can be a good
solution to the discussed problems.
Keeping the above scenario in mind and analyzing the information gained from the
article titled “Article for Assignment Number.1” by Mendikoa, M. Sorli , J. I. Barbero ,
A. Carrillo & A. Gorostiza, that has been provided to you in upload section of this course,
you are required to answer the following questions.
Question No.1 Marks: 10
What is process of predicting the failures through Anticipatory Failure Determination
Method (AFD)? How it is useful for the organizations operating in distributed
environment?
Question No.2 Marks: 10
Briefly discuss why there is a need for the advance techniques of problem detection for
the organizations? Up to how much extent, you consider “AFD” method as an efficient
means in problem detection?SOLUTION GUIDELINES AND INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Go to the download section of LMS and download the article “Article for
Assignment No. 1”. The actual title of the article is “Collaborative product design and
manufacturing with inventive approaches”. Your answers must be based on discussion
from the given article.
2. You are required to study this article in detail and answer the required Questions in
your own words. Don’t copy the same texts from the article rather re‐produce it in your
own words.
3. Your answer must not exceed 1200 words (600 words for each question).
4. Solution of both questions should be brief and very concise.
5. Irrelevant information should not be provided.
6. Statistical information, graphs and figure are not necessary.
7. References (if any) must be provided in APA format in the end.
8. Solution copied from any source will be treated as “Zero”.
IMPORTANT:
24 hours extra / grace period after the due date is usually available to overcome
uploading difficulties. This extra time should only be used to meet the emergencies and
above mentioned due dates should always be treated as final to avoid any
inconvenience.
OTHER IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS:
DEADLINE:
• Make sure to upload the solution file before the due date on VULMS.
• Any submission made via email after the due date will not be accepted.FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
• Use the font style “Times New Roman” or “Arial” and font size “12”.
• It is advised to compose your document in MS‐Word format.
• You may also compose your assignment in Open Office format.
• Use black and blue font colors only.
REFERENCING GUIDELINES:
• Use APA style for referencing and citation. For guidance search “APA



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) Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD)

Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD) method is a relatively new concept as the product design and manufacturing process continues to become more distributed across the globe. The method provides a disciplined process by which users can thoroughly analyze given failure mechanisms, obtain an exhaustive set of potential failure ‘scenarios’, develop ‘inventive’ solutions to prevent, counteract, or minimize the impact of the failure scenarios. The method focuses on deliberately creating failures that may or may not exist in the current environment. The method is based on TRIZ methodology (“Theory of the Solution of Inventive Problems”). The key benefit of this approach is the process of deliberately ‘inventing’ failures, thereby providing the ability to predict the future failures that do not yet exist.