Value Engineering Workshop MECH 497

Professor Paul Zsombor-Murray http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~paul Professor Vince Thomson Lucie Parrot, Certified Value Specialist Joe Slanik, ing.

Value Engineering

” A philosophy implemented by the use of a specific set of techniques, a body of knowledge, and a group of learned skills. It is an organized creative approach which has as its purpose the efficient identification of unnecessary cost, i.e., cost which provides neither quality, nor use, nor appearance, nor customer features." Lawrence Miles, 1946, General Electric Co.

Value Engineering

• • • • • • A formalized method to select customer critical functions quantify value relate customer benefits to costs create and select alternatives reduce costs focus on effective action • • Systems Approach focused on customer and performance applied at all stages of operation

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Applications

design, manufacture, inspection, procurement, installation, maintenance, i.e., the total life cycle of product, process, or service • •

Other terms

Value Engineering  Value Analysis, Value Improvement Value Management - benefit/cost of all activities

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5 phase job plan

Information Speculation Evaluation Development Persuasion

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Information

get the facts about the problem define the functions evaluate the functions •

Speculation

define alternatives • • •

Evaluation

develop specifics for alternatives costing, value matrix comparative cost-value chart } FUNCTIONAL } ANALYSIS } CREATIVE } TECHNIQUES } VALUE } ANALYSIS

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Development

decide on alternatives prepare implementation plans • • •

Persuasion

report solution and action plan anticipate roadblocks SELL PLAN TO CUSTOMER

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Used by major corporations

in the new product introduction process (NPI), in product/process renewal, in quality assurance programs, GE, IBM, Pratt & Whitney, Hydro Quebec, Transport Ontario, Alberta Infrastructure,….

VE is required for government contracts in the USA and in other countries.

Many professional organizations in several countries  Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE)  Canadian Society for Value Analysis (CSVA –SCAV)

Value Engineering Workshop

Course Outline

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Course Notes

handed out on 15-Sep-14 no textbook

Dates

Student Organization 08-Sep-14 Workshop Sessions 15-Sep-14 Trial Presentation 10-Nov-14 Final Presentation* 24-Nov-14 22-Sep-14 29-Sep-14 06-Oct-14 20-Oct-14 * at the Delta Montreal Hotel, 475 President Kennedy

Organization

Course times 1330 - 2130 hrs • • • • Lecture Coffee Project Dinner 1330-1500 1500 1515-2130 MD 267 1745-1845 (Royal Victoria residence) • Evaluation Companies participate in the evaluation of students.

Organization

• • • 4-7 projects 4-7 teams of 7-4 students, 1-2 company engineers Need a captain and a scribe

Attendance is mandatory at all classes

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Conduct

Towards companies  professional, confidentiality, intellectual property Towards peers  fairness: participate, share workload

Projects

Arcelor Mittal Vortex-I Vortex-II WATERAX Surprise

Deburring billets and slabs during steel making Flow control centre for water play park Plastic selection for acquatic application Pump exhaust system primer muffler A 5th project, almost certain, by 14-09-10

Electrochemical waste water treatment

WETT™

: raw sewage to clean dischargeable water (a previous prospect)

CAE Trainer/Simulator

A previous project

A previous project

Value Engineering Workshop

• Sign up and preference sheet • Information  http://www.mcgill.ca/ve  http://www.mcgill.ca/~paul Look @ stuff from last year, e.g., sample final reports & this slide sequence, until new stuff is posted.