Making Design Reviews Count

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt Beiter ◽  
Kosuke Ishii ◽  
Harshavardhan Karandikar
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Goal Structure ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Management Techniques

Design reviews are one of the most established product-development project management techniques to identify and eliminate errors in product design before they physically manifest themselves either in a prototype or in the final product. Design reviews are typically embedded within an overall product-development project management process consisting of multiple stages separated by decision gates. The specific goal, structure and content of a design review depend upon the stage and time at which it is performed. In the process of working with a number of large companies on their technology and product development processes we observed that the actual practice of design reviews often falls well short of the companies’ own stated objectives. We examine the reasons for this in our paper, the chief among them being the often misleading application and lack of clarity and brevity in the review process. These problems can be clearly highlighted and rectified by the application of the CVCA and FMEA tools to the design review process itself. Thus, design reviews can be made more efficient and effective and made to count!

scholarly journals Project management success factors: in search of product development project specialities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-122
Author(s):  
László Soltész ◽  
László Kamondi ◽  
László Berényi
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Product Development Project

Project success is a multifactorial issue, including difficult to quantify, soft factors as well. Project management style, collaboration within the team, and the level of standardisation may have an essential influence on the deliverables, moreover, on corporate performance. A prescription answer is not achievable considering the individual characteristics of projects but finding best practices and critical factors help to improve the performance. This paper presents the results of a survey among product development project experts (n = 112) evaluating the relevance of some success factors and their practical experience in the field. The results show that keeping the project plan and managing long-term issues like lessons learned database or module database are the most critical factors of success. The analysis did not find patterns of the responses that confirms the need for unique management actions.

scholarly journals Developing Work Uniforms for Women: The Role of Ethnographic Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Mari Bjerck
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Ethnographic Methods ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Innovation And Development

This article is makes use of fieldwork to discuss and analyse a Norwegian product development project aimed at developing workwear for women in male dominated manual occupations. Making use of ethnographic methods and analysis can be valuable in showing how users’ experiences and practices can be studied also where there are poorly developed concepts and language for formulating and discussing products, such as workwear in use. The article aims at answering how ethnographic studies may contribute to the development of products and services. Understanding people and things in their everyday relations and achieving action-oriented results may be a challenge in innovation and development processes. This article explores such challenges in studying the use of clothes in specific work contexts, as well as capturing and mediating this experience with workwear in use.

Applications of Virtual Engineering in Combustion Equipment Development and Engineering

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Q. Jian ◽  
Michael A. Lorra ◽  
Douglas McCorkle ◽  
K. Mark Bryden
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Cfd Simulation ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
Virtual Engineering ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Sound Engineering

The implementation of a virtual engineering system at John Zink Company, LLC is starting to change the engineering and development processes for industrial combustion equipment. This system is based on the virtual engineering software called VE-Suite being developed at the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC) of Iowa State University. The goal of the John Zink virtual engineering system is to provide a virtual platform where product design, system engineering, computer simulation, and pilot plant test converge in a virtual space to allow engineers to make sound engineering decisions. Using the virtual engineering system, design engineers are able to inspect the layout of individual components and the system integration through an immersive stereo 3D visualization interface. This visualization tool allows the engineer not only to review the integration of subsystems, but also to review the entire plant layout and to identify areas where the design can be improved. One added benefit is to significantly speed up the design review process and improve the turn around time and efficiency of the review process. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used extensively at John Zink to evaluate, improve, and optimize various combustion equipment designs and new product development. Historically, design and product development engineers relied on CFD experts to interpret simulation results. With the implementation of the virtual engineering system, engineers at John Zink are able to assess the performance of their designs using the CFD simulation results from a first person perspective. The virtual engineering environment provided in VE-Suite greatly enhances the value of CFD simulation and allows engineers to gain much needed process insights in order to make sound engineering decisions in the product design, engineering, and development processes. Engineers at John Zink are now focusing on taking the virtual engineering system to the next level: to allow for real-time changes in product design coupled with high-speed computer simulation along with test data to optimize product designs and engineering. It is envisioned that, when fully implemented, the virtual engineering system will be integrated into the overall engineering process at John Zink to deliver products of the highest quality to its customers and significantly shorten the development cycle time for a new generation of highly efficient and environmentally friendly combustion products.

Integrating service practice into project management: a matter of “do or die”?

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thommie Allan Burström ◽  
Mattias Jacobsson ◽  
Timothy L. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Best Management Practices ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Development Project

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyze service management practices within a project management context. Design/methodology/approach – This research supporting conceptual developments was both exploratory and qualitative in nature and utilized an in-depth case study of a major product development project. Findings – The conceptual framework developed is applied to empirical observations of product development project. Because there is an adequate fit with observations, elements of a service management approach appear to be viable in the description, managing, and control of projects. Research limitations/implications – Because the research was built on a case study, one has the limitations common with that approach. Conversely, case studies are acknowledged as useful in the identification of important variables in situations in which there is little control over events in a real-world context. Practical implications – Customer satisfaction is a requirement of project organizations, which is an inherent requisite of any service organization. Consequently, one turns to those elements in the practice of service management that lead to best management practices. Originality/value – This paper contributes with a practice-based understanding of how project management is based on integrated service practice.

scholarly journals A Survey of Design Reviews: Understanding Differences by Designer-Roles and Phase of Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 2745-2754
Author(s):  
James Chen ◽  
Gustavo Zucco ◽  
Alison Olechowski
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
3D Models ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Design Review ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Physical Prototype ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Future Work

AbstractIn this paper, we present the results of a survey of new product development practitioners regarding their design review experiences. We surveyed 128 product development professionals on their experience and preferences in design reviews. We found that the goals and type (location / synchronicity) of design reviews change over the course of a product development project. We found that the majority of design review meetings continue to be held as co-located, live, in-person meetings. For reviewing 3D models, we found that a native CAD package (rather than a viewer, or fixed views, or a physical prototype) is the most commonly used tool. We found a difference between Designers (more likely to be product engineers) and Non-Designers and their access to CAD software, as well as their preference for which tool to use at the design review for 3D model evaluation. We hope that our findings spark future work related to better understanding design reviews and design reviewers in context. Design reviews are an important part of industrial product development processes, so we believe future studies have a large potential to improve these design activities

Trust and Places - Case Interorganizational Product Development Project

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvi Nenonen ◽  
Minna Andersson ◽  
Mervi Huhtelin ◽  
Juha-Matti Junnonen ◽  
Arja-Liisa Kaasinen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Product Development Project

A new fuzzy decision-making approach for selecting new product development project

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 240-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiu-Chi Wei ◽  
Agus Andria ◽  
Houn-Wen Xiao ◽  
Chiou-Shuei Wei ◽  
Ting-Chang Lai
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Fuzzy Decision Making ◽  
Fuzzy Decision ◽  
Product Development Project
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