
210 Decision Based Design
3. Think about safety issues. Are certain designs safer than others?
4. Think about reliability issues. Is a particular design more suscep-
tible to failure than others?
5. Think about manufacturing. Which design will be easier to
manufacture?
6. Parts for which design will be easier to procure?
7. Which design is going to be more appealing based on form?
8. Any other product-specic metric.
For each of the candidate designs one can then nd a nal score by nd-
ing the weighted sum of scores for each item on the list. Of course, some
items in the list are more important than others (e.g., ability to meet attribute ...