Week 2: Homework Assignment
Chapter 5
1-
a) According to Halmans & Pohl (2003), it is necessary and important to
document a product explicitly, as it helps us identify more easily the characteristics of a
certain product. An adequate documentation of the product provides an identity to the
product, in addition the users will be able to more easily recognize the characteristics of
said product. From the different documents: it will show us an overview of the cutting
of the product, the schematic form of how the product is assembled, lists the necessary
operations.
b) If the product we produce does not work as we anticipated, the
documentation provides the basis for finding and correcting the problems in a logical
way.
9-
According to Istook (2002), computer-aided design. The CAD primarily deals
with those tasks that are exclusive to the design, such as the technical drawing and its
documentation, but it usually allows for other complementary tasks related mainly to
the presentation and analysis of the design carried out. Although a CAD system can
adopt many aspects and can work in many ways. The introduction of the computer
within the construction process has contributed to significantly improve the design
phase. The design costs and times have been reduced, and the response time to changes
in production has also decreased. But managing a CAD system is not only to master a
set of instructions of a computer program, but also requires knowledge of the design
process and the tasks involved. It is the knowledge of the design process and CAD
system, which gives us the most efficient method of work. Some of the many
advantages of using a CAD program are the following: it is possible to use libraries of
common elements.The distinction between original plan and copy is eliminated. The
storage of the plans is smaller, more reliable (taking certain security measures) and
allows fast and accurate searches through databases. Increase the uniformity in the
planes.
Chapter 6
1-
According to Brickman (2015), the improvement of quality is essential to
initiate cost reduction. Improving the quality of work processes results in a lower
number of errors, defective products and repetition of work, thus reducing the total time
of the cycle and reducing the consumption of resources, thereby decreasing the costs of
