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The design process is often described as an "Imaginative Integration of Information through Engineering Technology". It avoids poor understandings of problem to be solved, wrong assembly and manufacturing methods in automation. There five basic steps associated with the process. 1. Identify The Need, 2. Define the Problem, 3. Gather Information, 4. Conceptualize, 5. Evaluation, each of which is explained below.
Identify The Need
The engineer or designer or others involved with design must clearly understand and identify the need of the Automation or robotics. This involves identification of mechanism to analyze needs, and highlighting it to find a solution to the identified problem.
Define the Problem
It requires the engineer or designer to develop a concise problem statement for the design, and identifying limitations associated with the problem. Here, background investigation of the automation problem in question, data collection and analysis is a must.
Gather Information
It involves collecting information from sources such as handbooks,journals, Robotics specifications and codes, vendor catalogs, patent gazette, technical experts,internet, and so on.
Conceptualize
We must remember that creativity is a critical ingredient in finding a solution to most automation and engineering problems. So, preparing specifications for quality testing procedure, and developing process specification will make the design more conceptual. The manufaturing related issues like assembly,determining tooling requirements, cost control, purchasing material, and manufaturing plannings also to be addressed.
Evaluation
This involves setting up design auditing, evaluating design methods and procedures with internation quality standards and assuring the quality of the end design. Procedure to evaluate engineering design functions, research functions, quality assurance functions, manufaturing functions should be established.
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