1 First of all, we should do a good job in the market research of products, such as the degree of adaptation, the future prospects of products and so on. In other words, whether this product has vitality depends on scientific judgment, strict argumentation and serious investigation.
2 What scale should the investment plan reach? It is recommended to start small and gradually accumulate. This process can avoid many mistakes, even if there is food, it can also avoid causing too much venture capital.
Third, we should organize a team that can adapt to the design and development of this product structure. The practice of the theory of professional and technical talents is indispensable. It also includes social coordination. After all, in this information age, no one can do one thing well alone.
How to design product structure?
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1. Understand the product requirements and analyze the requirements of industry certification for products.
2. Preliminary review whether the industrial design (ID design) meets the product requirements. And the method and cost of process realization.
3. Organize relevant positions (internal electronic design, etc. ) to provide internal design elements.
4. Output the product structure design and review the design.
5. When the cost permits, 3D proofing of the structural parts is carried out.
6. Try to install the proofing samples, and change and adjust the design drawings. Review the conformity of construction accuracy, batch output and production efficiency of structural molds.
7. Confirm the final delivery effect with the demand position.
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Generally speaking, the main skills that an excellent product structure engineer needs to master include:
1, basic knowledge of mechanical design;
2. Familiar with the design of plastic parts, sheet metal parts and die castings; That is, manufacturing-oriented design; Ensure simple parts design, high quality, few defects and low manufacturing cost, and at the same time, the corresponding die structure is simple and easy to manufacture and process.
3. Skillfully master the assembly design skills of products; That is, assembly-oriented design; The assembly of products is as important as the manufacture of products. The assembly of products should make the assembly process simple, the assembly efficiency high, the assembly defects few, the assembly cost low and the assembly quality high. Commonly used assembly design criteria include reducing the number of parts, simplifying product structure, standardizing parts, modularizing products, designing stable base, designing guiding features, positioning parts before fixing, error-proof design, ergonomics design and so on. For detailed guidance, please refer to the Product Design Guide for Manufacturing and Assembly published by Machinery Industry Press. The book also includes guidelines for plastic parts design, sheet metal parts design, die casting design and tolerance analysis. Mastering these design criteria skillfully can ensure product design in the shortest time, the lowest cost and the highest quality.
4, master the knowledge of tolerance analysis; Able to use tolerance analysis to optimize product design quality and solve practical problems encountered in product development;
5. Familiar with related materials, molds and surface treatment technologies;
6. Have the ability to analyze and solve problems; There are bound to be many problems in product development, and the ability to analyze and solve problems is very important.
7. Familiar with product development process, especially manufacturing and assembly process. A good product development process can help product structural engineers reduce design changes, shorten product development time and improve product development quality;
8. Be familiar with relevant product testing requirements, such as EMI, ESD, safety and reliability, and design products to meet these requirements;
9. Familiar with relevant product industry standards;
Understand 10, 3D and 2D software. Commonly used 3D softwares include Pro/E, UG, Solidworks, Catia, etc. , and can master one of them skillfully. The commonly used 2D software is AutoCAD；;
1 1, good innovative spirit; You can learn the relevant theoretical knowledge of TRIZ.
12, team spirit; The success of product development is inseparable from team cooperation. It is impossible for a product structural engineer to fully grasp the knowledge of product manufacturing, assembly and testing. Product engineers should be able to improve the quality of product development by cooperating with manufacturing engineers, assembly engineers and test engineers. The main responsibilities of the product structure engineer Generally speaking, the main responsibilities of the product structure engineer include: 1, participating in the feasibility investigation of the product project and participating in the system scheme design; 2. Draw up structural design scheme and project plan, research and develop new structures and technologies, and improve product performance and quality; 3. Undertake the detailed design of product structure and parts; 4. Undertake the development, debugging and related technologies of the prototype; 5. Tolerance analysis and DFMA inspection; 6. Review molds with manufacturing engineers; 7. Review mold samples, design changes and final acceptance of parts; 8. Provide mechanical support for various tests such as EMI, ESD, safety and reliability; 9. Solve problems in product development, track problems and discuss technical problems with customers; 10 to provide technical support for mass production of products;
How to do a good job in product design is actually a methodological issue, and different people have different views. But the core of design must be to meet the needs of users, solve the pain points of users, and have a good user experience to bring value to users.
Before the design begins, consider what problems the design can solve for users. Why do users want to use your products? How competitive are your products among peers?
Different products, different industries, the understanding of product structure is diverse and diverse.
For mechanical products, the structure of the product is to ensure the mechanical principle, movement function and use function of the product, and also includes the structural requirements of manufacturing technology, installation and debugging, transportation safety and so on.
Structural design does not start from scratch. If the products are similar and have been set up before, you can refer to the previous product structure. If not, preliminary sketch design should be carried out according to the requirements of users, market research, investigation and analysis should be carried out, and technical analysis should be carried out on the preliminary sketch structure, and drawing design should be carried out after obtaining the approval of relevant parties. There are many procedures behind, which can simply include trial production, trial installation, trial use, various inspections, improvements, formal design, finalization, verification and acceptance, trial production in small batches, mass production, acceptance by relevant units, and market entry. This process takes a long time. Of course, it depends on the product.
1. The product structure design is to determine the product shape according to the appearance of research and development.
2. The internal structure is determined according to the functions of electronic components and products.
3. Product structure optimization is disassembly according to product assembly and maintenance.
The transformation from design institute to engineering company not only means the extension of value chain, but also means the shift of business focus, from focusing on simple design business, gradually increasing the proportion of general contracting business, and finally turning into focusing on general contracting business. The change of business focus makes the original design-oriented organizational system no longer adapt. How to properly adjust the organizational system according to the change of business focus has become an important topic for the design institute to transform into an engineering company. The transformation of design institutes into engineering companies is an arduous organizational change. It is necessary to twist the leaders down to the ordinary staff into a rope, think wholeheartedly, and work wholeheartedly to overcome many difficulties and achieve a gorgeous turn.
"Trilogy of Design Institute Transformation"
At present, the development of organizational structure in the process of transformation from design institute to engineering company generally goes through primary stage, intermediate stage and advanced stage.
In the initial stage of transformation, design institutes mostly followed the original organizational system and made some adjustments in project management organization. Considering the lack of experience and controllable risks, the leaders of the design institute personally served as the project manager to centrally allocate the human resources of the whole hospital to implement production, and the leaders personally coordinated various business relationships, leading everyone to accumulate experience while doing projects.
The above model is acceptable when the general contracting business volume is small. Once the business volume increases and reaches a certain scale, this model is not applicable. A centralized management department of general contracting business (General Contracting Department) must be set up to be responsible for the whole process implementation of general contracting projects. This mode is beneficial for design institutes to strengthen the management and control of general contracting projects. However, at present, the design business of general contracting projects accounts for a small proportion of the design business of design institutes, and the design project management still adopts a relatively independent operation mode.
When the general contracting business has developed to a higher stage and accumulated more successful experience, the design institute can strengthen the management of the general contracting business by adjusting the organizational structure. One way is to reconstruct the organizational structure of design institutes and establish a brand-new organizational system of engineering companies. Another way is that the general contracting department has evolved into an independent organization, which exists in the form of a business department or a company and is fully responsible for the operation of the general contracting business.
"Triple Door" of Organizational Change
The three stages of the transformation and development of design institutes into engineering companies are not only the simple reorganization of departments or business units, but also the "triple door" of the integration of personnel departments, the improvement of internal capabilities and the integration of process systems.
The transformation of a design institute into an engineering company begins with the integration of personnel and departments. From the perspective of value chain, the main personnel and work of design institutes focus on the design link, and the transformation to engineering companies needs to extend from the simple design link to the integrated operation of design, procurement, construction and operation. More than 80% of traditional design institutes are professional and technical personnel. After being transformed into an engineering company, a large number of management personnel need to be added. It is unrealistic to introduce all of them from the outside, so it is necessary to adjust the human resource structure internally and tap the potential internally to meet some talent needs. On the basis of tapping potential internally, combined with external recruitment, the professional integration of personnel is completed to meet the demand for human resources in the process of transformation. The essence of the transformation from design institute to engineering company is the transformation of production mode, which objectively requires the establishment of a project management organization suitable for general contracting project management. With the transformation of production organization mode, the functional departments of the original design institute should also be adjusted to meet the management needs of general contracting projects.
To truly realize the transformation from design institute to engineering company, we need to improve our internal ability. How to get business is the first problem that design institutes face when they transform into engineering companies. After establishing a long-term cooperative relationship with the owners and gaining the recognition and trust of the owners, many design institutes take undertaking the general contracting projects of the old owners as the breakthrough point and opportunity, and then continuously accumulate business resources, improve their business acquisition and business execution capabilities, and realize successful transformation. Due to the complexity of the general contracting project and the lack of management experience, it is difficult for the design institute to get familiar with it in a short time, which is also the main reason for the low profit or even loss of the general contracting project in the early stage. With the increase of experience and the maturity of staff, design institutes can gradually improve their management resources and capabilities, thus ensuring the profitability of the project.
Process system integration is the summary and solidification of organizational change experience, and also the sublimation of organizational change experience. At this time, the working method of the design institute is oriented, and the lack of foresight and foresight will lead to the passive phenomenon of "treating the headache and treating the foot pain", so a mature project management process system is urgently needed. The integration of process system is to form valuable mature experience in the process of trial and error, summarize and refine it, and solidify it into systems and processes. Only by establishing a perfect and effective process system can we truly realize the transformation from design institute to engineering company.
"the key to the triple door"
It is a long way for a design institute to transform into an engineering company, and finding the key to open the "triple door" is the key.
The first is "the right time", that is, the general trend of the industry and the opportunity for transformation. Opportunities don't appear out of thin air; it takes time to create them. We should carefully maintain customer relationships, understand and guide customer needs, let customers know the development trend of industries and enterprises, and wait for opportunities for customers to generate general contracting business. At the same time, it is necessary to make necessary preparations for the general contracting business within the enterprise. It is necessary for the design institute to clear up the development context of the industry and rationally plan the road of transformation through systematic analysis and research, so as to achieve a targeted goal.
The second is "geographical location", that is, your industry, resources and ability. The existing resources and capabilities of design institutes are the basis for the transformation to engineering companies, but it is not enough to rely solely on the internal strength of design institutes. It is also necessary to use external strategic partners to make up for their own shortcomings and achieve rapid transformation.
The third is "harmony between people", that is, the determination to transform. The transformation of design institutes into engineering companies is an arduous organizational change. It is necessary to twist the leaders down to the ordinary staff into a rope, think wholeheartedly, and work wholeheartedly to overcome many difficulties and achieve a gorgeous turn. "Human harmony" needs a lot of internal communication and training to help employees understand the situation clearly and establish a sense of crisis and transformation. The transformation also involves the vital interests of employees, and it is necessary to give employees tangible welfare protection. All these require systematic planning to balance the interests of all parties and reduce the resistance to change.
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Product structure design is divided into two situations:
1. The new product made by the newly established company or the new product of the newly established project team in the company mainly lies in this novelty, that is to say, it has not been done before and needs to be designed from the source, ranging from 0 to1;
2. Upgrade the architecture based on the company's existing products. For enterprises with online products, due to the adjustment of enterprise strategy, when the product functions are greatly modified, the whole architecture may need to be redesigned, which is a process from 1 to 1.
Analyze according to the above two situations:
1. The product architecture design of new products should not directly enter the design level in the early stage, but should first carry out product strategy (target, positioning), market analysis (background, quotation, competing products), user analysis, etc. Determine the general direction of the project, and formulate product functions according to the analysis results, and what sub-functions and functions each function has. After this function list comes out, the functions in the list can be initially structured.
2. For the structural reconstruction of online products, it is necessary to conduct a comprehensive analysis of online products, optimize and adjust the conflict points with existing strategies, and make a strong connection between new strategies and new products to make the newly designed product structure consistent with strategic objectives. Then, market analysis, competitive product analysis and so on. Make a list of product functions, and then gradually reconstruct the whole architecture design according to this list, so that the reconstruction is orderly and well-founded.
The importance of product architecture design for a company or project team is self-evident, and it needs complete analysis and repeated discussion and modification before it can enter the development. In the whole process before going online, the product leader needs to follow up to ensure that the product development meets the requirements of architecture design and is not deviated, so as to complete the whole process from product architecture design to going online.