Product design guidelines

In order to achieve that objective a variety of tools - both voluntary and mandatory - can be used such as economic instruments (e.g., funding, fees), substance bans, voluntary agreements, environmental labelling and product design guidelines. The application of principles of hfe-cycle analysis for additives clearly indicates that raw materials, energy and pollution from renewable resources are preferred when compared to petrochemically based processes and products. 

Designing for robustness has also been associated with the DFM guidelines (Russell and Taylor, 1995). Robust design has different meanings to different engineering communities. For example, the three descriptions below focus on three different but connected aspects of product design ... 

Designers unfamiliar with plastic products can use the suggested preliminary safety factor guidelines in Table 2-11. They provide for extreme safety. Any product designed with these guidelines in mind should conduct tests on the products themselves to relate the guidelines to actual performance (Chapter 4, RP PIPES, Stress-Strain Curves). With more experience, more-appropriate values will be developed targeting to use 1.5 to 2.5. After field service of... 

The Europeans, meanwhile, have focused on the need for better care in study design, conduct and interpretation (Spindler et. al., 2000), aiming to incorporate these in the revision of the CPMP (Center for Proprietary Medicinal Products) carcinogenicity guidelines. 

The procurement agency should have a documented infrastructure for purchase and procurement of health sector goods and services, which should aim to ensure that pharmaceutical products are of the quality required for their intended use. Quality assurance therefore incorporates GMP and other factors, some of which are outside the scope of these guidelines, such as product design and development. 

Boundary conditions should be established for each of the key platform characteristics. For each characteristic, the platform developer must determine the limits to which a characteristic can vary and still be manufactured on the platform to meet process and product features. These limits define the boundary conditions. These conditions include tolerance requirements on piece parts and materials, equipment and software specifications, and training requirements. These overall boundary conditions (i.e., what a process can and cannot do) will be the basis of the design guidelines that will be shared with design and marketing organizations. 

In the future, systems must be able to provide aU relevant information in the user-desired form and make additional mechanisms available that reveal the consequences of a decision made during product development. The provision of information must include not only product specific data but also comprehensive information. Data covering aU topics from design guidelines and rules to design, solution, and measurement catalogs to company individual knowhow is necessary. Solutions developed for similar products need to be accessible not only in general form but in a form that takes product-related tasks and context into account. 

Vanderheiden, G. and Vanderheiden, K. 1991. Accessibility Design Guidelines for the Design of Consumer Products to Increase their Accessibility to People with Disabilities or Who Are Aging. Trace R D Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 

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