02 — Capability · BC-1150.10
Manufacturing Process Design
Decide how a new or changed product will be made: the sequence of operations, the equipment, the capacity and the flow through the plant, before the first unit is built.
- Process Planning
- Manufacturing Readiness
- Make Planning
In scope
- Process flow and operation sequence definition
- Make-versus-buy input and capacity sizing
- Process failure mode analysis
- Production readiness and launch support
Out of scope
- Product design decisions (see BC-530)
- The manufacturing bill of materials and routing records themselves (see BC-1120.50)
Decomposes into · 4
- BC-1150.10.10Process Flow DefinitionLay out the operations, their order and the equipment each needs to turn the design into a buildable sequence.
- BC-1150.10.20Process Failure Mode AnalysisAnticipate how each operation could produce a defect and design the control or error-proofing that prevents it.
- BC-1150.10.30Capacity & Equipment SizingDetermine how many machines, stations and people a process needs at planned volume, with the bottleneck identified on purpose.
- BC-1150.10.40Launch ReadinessProve the process can make the product at rate and quality through trial runs before the schedule depends on it.