The students participate in a laboratory which consists of analyzing an existing product. The product analyzed is the Boggle Junior, manufactured by Parker Brothers, an example which demonstrates the variations of manufacture and assembly. The purpose is to identify ways of improving the manufacturing and assembly process.
Students learn to identify manufacturing procedures that cause inefficiencies in assembly time.
They are then promted to develop new and more efficient alternatives to the existing manufacturing processes. Students are provided with tools to disassemble the product and measure part dimensions. They are given a bill of materials form which they are to fill out. They are provided with a design for manufacturing manual to aid in determining manufacturing times of individual parts during assembly.