Design to standards

"Design to Standards" means to design items with generally accepted and uniform procedures, dimensions or materials.

Benefits

Product standardization is a technique in engineering design that aim to reduce the number of different parts within a product. The benefits are:

• lower supply chain costs
• product platforms
• faster product design

The supply chain costs are simple to reason:

• less variety of supplier, less supplier in numbers
• less stock keeping units (SKU)
• more economics of scale
• less variety of production operations

Product platforms are enabled through:

• standardized parts can be re-utilized across a product family
• standardized parts can be re-utilized across product generations

The product design process becomes faster because:

• standaridzed parts can be pulled from an engineering database
• already standardized parts do not need to be designed again

Standards

Standardization can occur through two ways

• industry standard setter
• company standards