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Design Philosophy

Design Philosophy

Design Philosophy

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I worked for almost 20 years for a public institution.  During that time I worked up a list of goals of our mechanical systems, trying to get good value for the tax payers money.

Some of these may or may not apply to all situations, but I thought it might be worthy of discussion.

Systems shall be as follows:

To satisfy our responsibility to the public:
1.  Safe – protecting and not endangering the public nor the users of these systems and meeting both the letter and spirit of applicable codes and standards

To get a buildable project:
2a.  Functional – meeting the operational needs of the users
2b.  Affordable – within the budgetary limits of the user’s project

To provide a project that the user can afford to opperate:
3a.  Maintainable – incorporating easy maintenance to assure long life
3b.  Energy efficient – meeting or exceeding the applicable codes and standards
3c.  Reliable - robust in design allowing operation with minimal necessary maintenance

To provide a project that will function properly long term:
4a.  Flexible – providing for long term possible needs of the user
4b.  Long lasting – operating not only reliably and with minimum maintenance, but for many years, giving good value to the users dollar

To interest ourselves:
5.  Innovative – as long as it enhances the value to the user and does not detract from the other listed items




RE: Design Philosophy

Man I like this, keeping a copy Thanks

RE: Design Philosophy

I dare you to draw it as an Influence Diagram. =)

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