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06-2) Product Function Analysis (VE-VA-FAST)
06-2) Product Function Analysis (VE-VA-FAST)
Abdulaziz M. El-Tamimi
What is Value engineering and Value Analysis?
System Oriented
a formal job plan to identify and remove unnecessary costs
Multi-disciplined Team Approach
Teams of experienced designers and VE consultants
Life Cycle Oriented
Examine the total cost of owing and operating a facility
A Proven Management Technique
Function Oriented
Relates function required to the value received
Value Engineering IS Not
Design Review
It is not intended to correct omissions made in design nor to
review calculations made by the designer
A Cheapening Process
It does not cut cost by sacrificing needed reliability and
performance
A Requirement Done On All Designs
It is not a part of every designer scheduled review, but a
formal cost and function analysis
Quality Control
It does more than review fail-safe reliability status of plant
or product design
How value analysis works?
Value analysis technique involves cost reduction activities by relating
the cost of components to their function contributions.
To increase the value of products or services consider the function of
individual items and the benefit of this function and balancing this
against the costs incurred in delivering it.
Then the task becomes to increase the value or decrease the cost.
How value analysis works?
Example; In analyzing a pen, the following table is used to connect
components with the functions to which they contribute and hence identify areas
of focus.
Value Engineering Techniques : Job Plan
Job Plan
Value Engineering can be thought of as the use of
specific techniques in an organized manner
This organization is provided by the job plan which
can be defined as thought processes and activities
needed to properly perform a value engineering study
(Mansour, 1994)
Value Engineering Techniques : Job Plan
1. The Information Phase
Information related to the study is to be gathered
2. The Creative Phase
the item being studied are generated by the use of creative thinking
In this phase all suggestions are recorded regardless of there
impracticability, and no judgment is made about any suggestion in this
phase
Alternates methods of accomplishing the same essential function of
3. The Evaluation Phase
The alternates resulting from the previous phase are now analyzed, not
to eliminate the impractical ideas , but to improve them to the point of
acceptance
Then the ideas that have the greatest chance of success are selected for
he next phase
Value Engineering Techniques : Job Plan
Abdulaziz M. El-Tamimi
VA &The function of a product;
Basic Function:
It is the overall intended purpose of the product [WHAT
the product is supposed to do]
It is a statement of a clear, reproducible relationship
between the available input and the desired output
It is an action statement represented by Verb-Noun
Examples:
Fingernail Clipper Clip Nails
Car Transport People
Copier Machine Make Copies
Secondary Function Model
Secondary Function[Sub-Function]
Overall functions are divided into smaller functions
[A component of a product function]
The relationship between overall functions and sub-
functions is usually governed by a constraint or input-
output relationships
Example:
Copier Make Copies
Make Color Copies
Make B/W Copies
Zoom in/out Copies
Function Model
Example
NEEDS
Function
Enabling the Secondary Solution
Function
Secondary
Enabling the Secondary
Solution
Function
Function
WANTS
WHY HOW
Not essential to the performance of the
task/function
Essential to productivity increase,
project acceptability
Fulfills the wants of the user
Function Modeling: FAST Method
FAST diagram of overhead transparency projector.
Function Modeling: FAST Types
Types of FAST diagram