08_Class Notes: Tues. (event date: 8/9/15)

Due Thursday:
- Quiz 5: in class
- A3’s stage gate
-odd: Engineering Notebooks  @ 11:30am
-even: A3 reports  @ 11:00 am


The class was divided up into our design groups and we were tasked to come up with need statements for various products.  Our team chose an electric toothbrush and came up with the need statements in Figure A.



Rule #5: There’s never time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over.

Stage Gate: a new product development process
     each stage: activities, analysis, 
     each gate: deliverables, criteria, outputs (decisions, plans to proceed)

Benefits of stage-gate:
     - accelerates speed to market
     - increases likelihood of product success
     - introduces discipline into an ordinarily chaotic process
     - reduces rework and other forms of waste



Sr. Design Stage-Gate:

Figure B: Stage-Gate Plan for Sr. Design Fall Semester





Figure C: Sr. Design Stage-Gate Plan For Spring Semester




Quiz Helps:
- know PDCA improvement
- A3 questions
- elements of A3 thinking
- 3D-communication
- reasons for 1-page reports
- rules of senior design
- what stages and gates are (stage names, gate names)
- senior design implementation fall and spring


Group Meeting:
Meeting with Anita (PT School) on Thursday morning.

Questions to ask Anita:
     - what does assist mean?
     - how assistive should the device be?
     - how to measure the amount of assistance device will offer?
     - what does a physical therapist need most from a device like this to make working with the patient easier?