UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

ME 201: DESIGN METHODOLOGY

Tutorial No. 3 - 2020/2021

1. Briefly outline six specific sources of information that you would search in Dar cs
Salaam and Moshi in order to collect Market/ Need information for the dc•sigri of a
wheelchair for disabled people.
2. What do you understand by recorded and non-recorded information? Why is it
important to start gathering recorded before non-recorded information?

3. Why is a comprehensive Product Design Specification very important in industrial

design practices?
4. Outline low common problems or mistakes that one needs to watch when wri‘ting a
product design specification.

s. Explain briefly what you understand by the following elements of Product Design
Specification: Ergonomics, Installation, Product life span and Shipping.

6. Search for
http://cuba.coventry.ac. uk/maedesignJfiles/2011/07/prod uct-desi -specification-
portable-winch.pdf and study the PDS example for a poi’table winch. Make a print-
out of this PDS document.