World Class Design to Manufacture: Volume 2 Issue 2
Table of contents
Corporate renewal through lean design
Daniel T. JonesChrysler and Renault have successfully implemented dedicatedmultifunctional platform design teams, with impressive results. Ford andNissan found it difficult to do so with strong…
A faster, cheaper and safer route to CE
Stephen Evans, Fiona Lettice, Palminder SmartDescribes the FAST concurrent engineering (CE) implementationmethodology that has been developed by the authors at CranfieldUniversity, through research and consultancy…
Defining great products
Peter MarksThe success of product development teams rests on their ability tothink like their customers. A “Customer $APPEALS”model provides a proven framework for defining customer wants…
Using benchmarking to drive R&D improvement
Steve Jackson, Dean GilmoreFocuses on the R&D effectiveness index developed by PRTM,which, when combined with an in‐depth, qualitative assessment of skillsand effectiveness, can provide an accurate measure…
Design for manufacture in the aerospace extended enterprise
Kamal Sehdev, Ip‐Shing Fan, Stephen Cooper, Gareth WilliamsDesign for manufacture (DFM) is accepted as an important tool toimprove manufacturing competitiveness. Reports on the results of thefirst phase of a study conducted by Cranfield…
The building‐blocks of future success
Jack ParrFocuses on Renishaw plc, a small UK engineering organization whichis the world′s leading metrology probe supplier. Describes the companyphilosophy and practice, particularly its…
Competing through new product delivery
Andrew Lee‐MortimerRegardless of the industry, the changes in the marketplace that areaffecting most companies are the same. Outlines the main points of aspeech by George Stalk of the Boston…