Value Engineering Workshop MECH 497 Professor Paul ZsomborMurray

Value Engineering Workshop MECH 497 Professor Paul Zsombor-Murray http: //www. cim. mcgill. ca/~paul Professor Vince Thomson Lucie Parrot, Certified Value Specialist

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

Value Engineering 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

Value Engineering 5 phase job plan • Information • Speculation • Evaluation • Development • Persuasion

Value Engineering 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

Value Engineering Development • decide on alternatives • prepare implementation plans Persuasion • report solution and action plan • anticipate roadblocks • SELL PLAN TO CUSTOMER

Value Engineering 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 w Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE) w Canadian Society for Value Analysis (CSVA –SCAV)

Value Engineering Workshop Course Outline Course Notes • Course notes on line. Download address given in class. • Hard copy no longer supplied but you can print one. • No text book.

Dates Student Organization 13 -Jan-20 Workshop Sessions 20 -Jan-20 Trial Presentation Final Presentation* 16 -Mar-20 23 -Mar-20 27 -Jan-20 03 -Feb-20 17 -Feb-20 09 -Mar-20 * at Mc. Gill New Residence Hall, 3525 ave. du Parc

Organization Course times 1330 - 2130 hrs • • Lecture Coffee Project Dinner MD 267 1330 -1500 1515 -2130 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. (Conflicts) Conduct • Towards companies w professional, confidentiality, intellectual property • Towards peers w fairness: participate, share workload

Projects Siemens 1 Gas turbine cost reduction Siemens 2 Skyfold CAE Ville de Laval Jiaipera Rapid Precision Stator vane inlet mechanism Safety of panel raising/lowering 3 -D printing of cockpit parts Municipal building repurposing Refrigerator compressor noise Smart harness analysis (Winter 2020 posted 20 -01 -12.

Electrochemical waste water treatment WETT™: raw sewage to clean dischargeable water (a previous prospect)

CAE Trainer/Simulator A previous project

A current project

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