Abstract
Over the last two decades or so, good design practices have been formalised into a suite of techniques and methods — design tools. Some examples include Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Functional Analysis (as used in Value Analysis), Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA), and Morphological Chart Analysis. This chapter reports on another early attempt of the authors on using FMEA as an example to demonstrate how such design tools can be made available on the Internet through the web browsers. The purpose was to gain some insights concerning the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches to the implementation of web-based design tools. Indeed, experiments have been carried out on at least three versions of the web-enabled or web-based FMEA.
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