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The manager should have ensured buy-in from both the mechanical and manufacturing engineering teams on the elevator design. To address the design flaws, the company should implement a Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) tool, documenting known failure modes regarding manufacturability. There are two customers to consider - the manufacturing engineers and actual consumers. Both teams must work together using tools like DFMEA and Fault Tree Analysis to identify and address design flaws that could cause failures during manufacturing, which impact time, costs and safety. The manager must guide both teams to collaborate throughout the entire design and approval process.

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This Study Resource Was: LG415 Case Study: The Elevator Dilemma

The manager should have ensured buy-in from both the mechanical and manufacturing engineering teams on the elevator design. To address the design flaws, the company should implement a Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) tool, documenting known failure modes regarding manufacturability. There are two customers to consider - the manufacturing engineers and actual consumers. Both teams must work together using tools like DFMEA and Fault Tree Analysis to identify and address design flaws that could cause failures during manufacturing, which impact time, costs and safety. The manager must guide both teams to collaborate throughout the entire design and approval process.

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LG415

Case study: The Elevator Dilemma


What would you do in this situation and why?

First of all, the manager should not have allowed the mechanical engineers to submit a design without
full buy in from the manufacturing engineers, but now the company should implement the Design
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) tool. They need to first document known failure modes with
regard to manufacturability. There are two customers here, the manufacturing engineers and the actual
consumer. The effects of failure on the customer cover both the overall fit, form, function and safety for
the customer and the cost of design failure in time and money during the manufacturing process. To
support the DFMEA they could use a Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) to identify design flaws that cause failures
in the manufacturing process.

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These tools will only be effective if the manager brings both teams together. One thing that must be

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done is to have joint efforts throughout the whole process with both engineering teams and an

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endorsement from the manufacturing team prior to design approval. It is my experience that employees

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generally want to do good things however, it is managements responsibility to guide them.

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