Elements and Performance Criteria
- Confirm design brief of new product in consultation with relevant people
- Communicate with customer and other key stakeholders and agree on technical specification, aesthetic requirements, timelines, cost and other market requirements
- Determine regulatory/industry code/intellectual property requirements for product
- Identify possible tooling/process/equipment needs
- Develop design brief, including relevant drawings, to meet needs
- Obtain 'sign off' on total design brief from all relevant persons
- Determine material requirements for product
- Select appropriate materials/combination of materials/ components in liaison with key stakeholders
- Determine material/component testing and evaluation regime required to meet product end use requirements, including regulatory/industry code requirements
- Arrange for, testing and evaluation of trial materials/ components
- Guide material trial process and interpret material trial results
- Determine final materials/components specifications and details of value chain
- Determine process requirements for product
- Select appropriate process to make product in liaison with key stakeholders and based on relevant factors
- Determine any special process/equipment requirements for this product
- Communicate with production personnel to determine their concerns and/or training or other needs
- Adjust the design as required to satisfy customer and production needs
- Ensure process needs for new product have been met
- Trial new product through the process
- Design trialing procedure to deliver required information
- Liaise with relevant stakeholders
- Ensure health safety and environment (HSE) requirements are stringently observed
- Coordinate the trialing of the new product
- Interpret product trial results and guide product trial process
- Tune process to optimise production of new product
- Determine process capability
- Coordinate product trials
- Determine product testing and evaluation regime required to meet end use requirements, including regulatory/industry code requirements
- Arrange for testing and evaluation of trial product/prototype
- Interpret product trial results and guide product trial process
- Determine final product specification in liaison with key stakeholders
- Make required changes to materials, process and equipment
- Implement standard procedures for new product
- Monitor initial production and, in liaison with appropriate team members, adjust process, conditions and materials to ensure the product and process outcomes conform to requirements
- Ensure process specifications are updated and reflect the optimised operation developed
- Ensure standard operating procedures are correct for the new product
- Ensure equipment and other hardware records are updated to reflect additions/changes
- Ensure project records are complete and all required reports have been completed and submitted
- Archive records according to company procedure