World Class Design to Manufacture: Volume 2 Issue 1
Table of contents
Top‐down innovation for bottom‐up results
Mohamed ZairiAssesses managers′ understanding of the term“innovation” and introduces the changes in the nature ofcompetition which have affected the traditional idea of innovation.Provides…
Exploiting the potential
Nobuoki OhtaniStates that industrial design has in the past emphasized stylingand tended to ignore the importance of satisfying consumer needs.Suggests companies should learn to cultivate…
Designing the front end: how attitudes towards new products are related to company performance
Myfanwy Trueman, David JobberA survey of 108 UK industrial companies compares attitudes towardsnew products with company performance. The research, carried out atBradford University Management Centre, uses a…
Reusability – the key to corporate agility: its integration with enhanced quality function deployment
Jérôme Witter, Don Clausing, Ludger Laufenberg, Ronaldo Soares de AndradeMarket presence, quality and costs are primarily decided duringproduct development – improved in the last 15 years by theimplementation of basic concurrent engineering and now…
Goal‐directed development of new products
Robert LockwoodExamines the dramatic change of commercial aircraft manufacturingfrom the traditional product development method dominated by militaryheritage and product superiority at the…
PDM: the essential technology for concurrent engineering
Bill GascoigneConcurrent engineering was heralded as the new panacea formanufacturing in the 1990s. The complexity of implementing the processthrough an organization has proved to be a major…
Mass customization – at a profit
Brian FitzgeraldReports on Management Round table′s conference on “Masscustomization – at a profit: any variety, any time,anywhere”, which attempted to explain the implications of…