5.2.7 To provide estimates of cost of tooling and equipment needed to manufacture new products
5.2.8 To determine part changes necessary to ease
manufacture or reduce cost and request part print
changes
5.2.9 To take part in product study groups to assist the
product engineer in the design of a product that
will be feasible and economical to make
5.2.10 Process engineering is definitely a field requiring
Incentive and creativity as well as experience. Creating
a new process may be as interesting as new product.
So many new processes are developed and process
engineering has to be up to date Failure to use a better, low cost or safer process due to ignorance may result into drastic losses.
The best process plan of this year may be obsolete next
year.