Manufacturability and Producibility
Please change the title of this article to Manufacturability and Produceability (NOTE: "Producibility" is the correct spelling. K Forsberg)
Manufacturability and Produceability is an engineering specialty. The machines and processes used to build a system must be architected and designed. Manufacturing equipment and processes can sometimes cost more than the system being built, and so a systems engineering approach to manufacturing and production is necessary (Maier and Rechtin 2002).
The system being built might be a one-of-a-kind, or it might be intended to be reproduced multiple times. The manufacturing system is different for each of these situations and is tied to the type of system being built. For example, the manufacture of a single board computer would be vastly different from the manufacture of an automobile.
Production involves the repeated building of the designed system. Multiple production cycles require the consideration of production machine maintenance and downtime. Manufacturing and Production engineering involves similar systems engineering processes specifically tailored to the building of the system.
Manufacturability and produceibility are the key attributes of a system that determine the ease of manufacturing and production. While manufacturability is simply the ease of manufacture, producibility also encompasses other dimensions of the production task, including packaging and shipping. Both these attributes can be improved by incorporating proper design decisions that take into account the entire system life cycle (Blanchard and Fabrycky 2005). See Table 25 for a list of manufacturing and production elements.
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DISCUSSION on this article (Kevin Forsberg, 21 August 2011)
This article is well written, and for its purpose here, it is about the right length. What it lacks is a stronger tie to Systems Engineering. Perhaps stating that "Manufacturability and Producibility" can be a discriminator between competing system solution concepts, and so need to be considered early in the study period, as well as during the maturing of the final design solution."
The references need to be spelled out. in the reference section. Also, can permission be obtained to reproduce Table 25 from whatever source (the reader is left to guess if it is in Blanchard and Fabrycky's book). It would be useful to see a little more detail here.
There are no links to the glossary, or anything else.
The article is close to ready for SEBoK 0.5. The cleanup should not take too long. The spelling (apart from the request to change "Producibility" to "Produceability") seems good. --Bkcase 19:10, 22 August 2011 (UTC) (on behalf of Dick Fairley)