Business Goals
What are the business outcomes that the client 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 on?
- Units / Hour
- Up time %
- 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)
