Business goals
What are the business outcomes that our customer is trying to achieve? For example, return on investment, health and safety gains, increased productivity etc.
Performance criteria
What performance criteria is the system to be measured by?
- Units / hour
- Up time percentage
- Defect percentage
- Hours run / year
- Expected machine life
Mechanical criteria
- Product
- Product mass
- Product geometry
- Handling characteristics
- Product variability
- Number of products
- Environment
- Temperature
- Vibration
- Frequency of access
- Existing equipment
- Footprint
- Power
Key interfaces
- Physical
- Digital
- Services
- Control infrastructure (ERP/MRP, existing control systems, SCADA, industrial network)
