Design to standards

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"Design to Standards" means to design items with generally accepted and uniform procedures, dimensions or materials.

Benefits

Product standardization is a technique in engineering design that aim to reduce the number of different parts within a product. The benefits are:
* lower supply chain costs
* product platforms
* faster product design
The supply chain costs are simple to reason:
* less variety of supplier, less supplier in numbers
* less stock keeping units (SKU)
* more economics of scale
* less variety of production operations
Product platforms are enabled through:
* standardized parts can be re-utilized across a product family
* standardized parts can be re-utilized across product generations
The product design process becomes faster because:
* standardized parts can be pulled from an engineering database
* already standardized parts do not need to be designed again

Standards

Standardization can occur through two ways
* industry standard setter
* company standards

Design for X
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