The Design Report

The essential purpose of any report is to pass on information to others. A good report writer never forgets the words to others. The abilities, the functions, and the needs of the reader should be kept in mind constantly during the preparation of any type of report. Here are some questions the writer should ask before starting, while writing, and after finishing a report  

What technical level will they understand  

Example of form for an informal summarizing report on factory manufacturing cost. 

The answers to these questions indicate the type of information that should be presented, the amount of detail required, and the most satisfactory method of presentation. 

Although many general rules can be applied to the preparation of reports, it should be realized that each industrial concern has its own specifications and 

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Elaborate the design report. Defend it by public presentation. 

The advantage of simplicity is illustrated in the design reported by Pettiti et al. (1999) this was assembled mostly with commercial parts. The cell allowed thermal treatments at temperatures up to 823 K, in either a reducing or oxidizing atmosphere, and it could be used in transmission and fluorescence modes of detection. The body of the cell was a stainless steel six-way cross. One flange of the cross carried the heater and the opposite flange the sample holder. The heater was a simple design of Ni—Cr wire wrapped around a silica cylinder. The sample holder was... 

Once the total product cost has been estimated, the design group is in a position to evaluate for management the attractiveness of the proposed process using such measures of profitability as rate of return, payout time, or present worth. These methods are fully outlined in Chap. 10. The design report, as mentioned previously, completes the preliminary design. 

If laboratory tests were used to obtain design data, the experimental data, apparatus and procedure description, and interpretation of the results may be included as a special appendix to the design report. 

You are to prepare a complete preliminary-estimate design for a new plant for the solvent rendering of raw tissues by an extraction process. Some pieces of equipment are now on hand which we believe can be used in the new plant. Please submit a complete report on the design which you feel will be most favorable for our company. We are particularly interested in total investment, yearly profit before taxes, and the probable percent return on the investment. We shall be interested in the reason for your particular choice of solvent. The design report should also include the number of operators necessary and the approximate operating procedure. 

For additional details of this process design, see the design report by Lee et al. (1995). Also, see Problem A-Il.1.10 in the PDF, Design Problem Statements.pdf, on the multimedia CD-ROM that accompanies this textbook for the design problem statement that led to this design,... 

This section begins with a template of items to be included in most design reports and followed by a discussion of several techniques found to be helpful in their preparation, i well as recommendations for the page format to permit the design report to be bound ft distribution. 

Abstract. The abstract is a brief description, in one or two paragraphs, of the design report, its key conclusions, special features, and assumptions. These include projections of any applicable economic measures of goodness (e.g., the return on investment and the net present value) and reconunendations to management. 

Bibliography. All works referred to in the design report, including the appendix, should be listed in this section. It is recommended that the references appear in the form shown in the Reference sections near the end of each chapter in this textbook. 

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