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Subject: Industrial Engineering And Management
Topic: Value Engineering and Value Analysis
Difficulty: Medium
written 6.9 years ago by | modified 2.9 years ago by |
Subject: Industrial Engineering And Management
Topic: Value Engineering and Value Analysis
Difficulty: Medium
written 6.8 years ago by |
• ‘Functional analysis system techniques’ (FAST) is a rigorous method for understanding complex systems by converting ‘activities’ performed in the systems to the ‘functions’ performed in the systems for its customers.
• This method is used in value engineering for product improvement, process improvement, systems design and system architecting.
• FAST permits people with dissimilar technical back grounds to effectively communicate and resolve issues that require multi-disciplined considerations.
• FAST builds upon value analysis by linking the simply expressed, verb-noun functions to describe complex systems.
• It describes the item or systems under study and cause the team of engineers to think through the functions that the item or system performs, forming the basis for a wide variety of subsequent approaches and analysis techniques.
• The FAST diagram or model is an excellent communications vehicle. Using the verb-noun rules in function analysis creates a common language, crossing all disciplines and technologies.
• It allows multi-disciplined team members to contribute equally and communicate with one another while addressing the problem objectively without bias or preconceived conclusions.
• FAST contributes significantly to Functional Analysis, which is the most important phase of value engineering.