scholarly journals Reducing Time for the Product Development Process by Evaluation in the Phase of Solution Searching

10.14311/476 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Jokele ◽  
D. K. Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Successful Solution ◽  
Product And Process

Less and less time is available for product development process. To prevent product failures and the resulting time intensive and cost intensive iteration steps, some preventive measures must be taken. Within the scope of quality management, FMEA anticipates possible problems concerning product and process properties. Nevertheless, in industrial practice designed products can have failures which were not considered within FMEA. The time pressure is immense, and efforts which do not make a contribution to a successful solution are regarded as lost time.This paper introduces a systematic approach to troubleshooting, with the aim of reducing the time for solution searching by considering the feasibility of ideas at an early stage.

Designing the Product Development Process

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Bligh ◽  
Manbir Sodhi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Design ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
The Impact

Even though the literature on product and process development is extensive, not much attention has been devoted to categorizing the product development process itself. Existing work on product development processes such as Total Design, Integrated Product and Process Design among others advocate common approaches that should be followed throughout the organization, without any consideration of product characteristics. In this paper we review several existing development methodologies. Extensions of these are categorized by their applicability to different classes of products. We propose that development processes should be matched to product attributes and organization goals. Towards this end, we associate development processes along with their components such as House of Quality, Robust Design, TRIZ etc. with goals such as time to market, customer needs satisfaction, intellectual property generation, protection and exploitation, quality, product cost and others. We examine the impact of this association on the development process itself and propose guidelines for constructing specific processes associated with one or more goals. Tools and benchmarks for various applications are discussed, along with some case studies on the design of different development processes.

On the Use of a Simplified New Product Development Process in an Early-Stage Firm

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tucker J. Marion ◽  
Timothy W. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
New Product ◽  
Consumer Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Established Firms ◽  
New Product Development Process

Disciplined product development has been a hallmark of mature companies for many decades, resulting in shorter development cycles, reduced costs, and higher quality products. Unfortunately, these tools and processes have typically been applied in large, well-established firms, not start-up companies. In this paper, we describe a simplified new product development process for early-stage firms and its application to a consumer product in which the process was executed during a 14-month development cycle. The process consists of 15-steps in 3-phases, two decision gates, and provides a step-by-step guide for development, with specific call-outs as to what, when, and where tools such as market segmentation, platform planning, industrial design, and cost modeling should be applied. The proposed process is applied to design a new consumer product, and the case study results are discussed with specific emphasis on costs, duration, and applicability of the process and its related engineering tools. Finally, we conclude with comments on the limitations of the proposed process, potential improvements, and future work.

New Product Quality and Product Development Teams

2000 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajesh Sethi
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Functional Diversity ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
New Product Quality

New product quality has been found to have a major influence on the market success and profitability of a new product. Firms are increasingly using cross-functional teams for product development in hopes of improving product quality, yet researchers know little about how such teams affect quality. The author proposes and tests a series of hypotheses regarding how new product quality is affected by team characteristics (functional diversity and information integration) and contextual influences (time pressure, product innovativeness from the firm's perspective, customers’ influence on the product development process, and quality orientation in the firm). The findings reveal that quality is positively related to information integration in the team, customers’ influence on the product development process, and quality orientation in the firm. New product quality is negatively influenced by the innovativeness of the new product from the firm's perspective. However, information integration mitigates the negative effect of innovativeness on quality. Quality orientation weakens the relationship between information integration and quality. Time pressure and functional diversity do not have any effect on product quality.

CORPORATE CHAMPIONS OF EARLY-STAGE PROJECT PROPOSALS AND THE INSTITUTIONALISATION OF ORGANISATIONAL INERTIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050028
Author(s):  
HEIDI M. J. BERTELS ◽  
MURAD MITHANI ◽  
SIWEI ZHU ◽  
PETER A. KOEN
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Mba Students ◽  
Executive Mba ◽  
Using Data ◽  
To Receive

This study looks at the role of champions in the early stages of the product development process, when employees try to secure initial funding for project proposals. Project proposals that fail to receive funding never become part of the firm’s project pipeline; hence, it is critical to understand the champion’s role early on. Existing research on corporate champions is mostly focused on the later stages of the new product development process and has generally identified corporate champions as key to projects likely to face organisational resistance. However, several recent studies suggest that champions may prefer projects less likely to face organisational resistance. Using data from project proposals of executive MBA students across 78 large organisations, we find that champion support for the team is weaker for project proposals likely to evoke resistance and that such lower champion support further reduces the likelihood of high-resistance early-stage proposals to receive initial funding.

scholarly journals METHOD ACCEPTED - FIELDS OF ACTION FOR INCREASING METHODS APPLICATION IN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2037-2046
Author(s):  
Anne Wallisch ◽  
Simon J. Nicklas ◽  
Kristin Paetzold
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Support Design ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
Subsequent Step ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
Complex Methods

AbstractContrary to all agreement that methods can efficiently support design activities in the product development process, it can still be heard that notably complex methods often find little acceptance in industrial practice in terms of consistent use. Therefore, this concept paper aims to identify factors influencing the formation of acceptance to support a successful design and implementation of methods in product development. For this purpose, the first necessary step is to clarify the conceptualization of acceptance within this domain. Furthermore, the influencing variables, which are described in the acceptance models having been identified as development-relevant in a literature review, are first extracted and second newly structured using a behavioural model reflecting the mental stages from stimulus to behaviour. Third, the insights gained towards the factors' relevance throughout these stages are applied to the conditions of method application in engineering and design. In a subsequent step, basic assumptions towards central fields of action for concrete measures to increase acceptance concerning the use of methods in product development are derived.

Conceptual Product Development

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gritt Ahrens ◽  
Oliver Tegel
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Conceptual Modelling ◽  
Function Structure ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Product Specifications ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract The importance of conceptual modelling more and more becomes recognized in the industrial practice, since it is commonly known that it is during that phase of the product development process where fundamental choices are made that have a strong influence on the result of the development — the process! The process of product development can only be efficient if it is basically put into practice methodically. The time additionally invested in the first steps of the methodical process of product development as it is described in the German guideline VDI 2221 prevents from forgetting important specifications or even overseeing possible ways of solution. This way the phase of conceptual modelling can result in a saving of time needed for product development due to fewer iteration loops for the correction of mistakes in later phases of the process and an increase of the product quality, too. The prerequisite of the efficiency of conceptual modelling is a definition of the product specifications which is as precise as necessary and as abstract as possible in order not to restrict the amount of solutions in an unnecessary way. Looking at the functions a product to be developed has to fulfill, the requirements list serves as a basis for the definition of function structures in which all functions and the relationships amongst each other are defined. This function structure can be utilized not only for the description of the product in an abstract way, but also for structuring the development process as well. With the definition of interfaces between parts of the product, implicitly interface specifications for the work on different parts of the product are defined. The function structure, therefore, can be used as a tool for management in the product development process. Because of this, the information summarised in these documents must be available throughout the entire development process the information technological support of these tools should be standard. Nevertheless, common CAD-Software does not support any step of conceptual modelling. In this paper an information technological support for conceptual modelling is also presented. Furthermore, it is shown what kind of changes in and extensions of common CAX-Systems would be necessary for the realisation of this theory.

Sociological Practitioners Contributing to New Product Development: Mapping the Challenges

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Usability Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Process

To continue making profit in industry, companies use extensive research in the development of new products. This complex interdisciplinary process includes some social scientists. By using a SWOT framework as an analytical tool, this paper seeks to summarize the reflections as retrieved from the corpus of scientific publications in which the authors present themselves as sociologists or ethnographers, or as designers or marketers working with sociologists, sociology or ethnography while doing market, consumer, and usability research. This map can be a first step to determine how sociological practitioners can take advantage of the opportunities (e.g. concurrent engineering) in the product-development process through employing their strengths (e.g. context sensitivity), while averting threats (e.g. time pressure) by means of avoiding, correcting or compensating for their weaknesses (e.g. socialization in doing academic sociology).

Product Architecture and Modularization Process for Brownfield Development

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Thumm ◽  
Caroline Orth ◽  
Nazmir Presser ◽  
Sascha Grammel ◽  
Dietmar Göhlich
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Industrial Practice ◽  
Process Implementation ◽  
Suitable Product ◽  
Brownfield Development

This paper describes the investigation of the industrial need in standardized products, the role of product architecture in modularization and a suitable product development process implementation. A comprehensive approach of implementing standardized product architecture for an industrial “brownfield development” and a methodology for redesigning existing modularization concepts are the main contents, as well as a detailed overview and assessment of existing modularization approaches in engineering science and industrial practice.

A Systematic Approach to Support Drive Train Design Using Tools for Human Comfort Evaluation and Customer Classification

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Albers ◽  
Sarawut Lerspalungsanti ◽  
Tobias Du¨ser ◽  
Sascha Ott ◽  
Jiangang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Ride Comfort ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Dynamic Properties ◽  
Drive Train ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Customer Classification ◽  
Subjective Sensation

This article presents a systematic procedure and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) based tool for comfort objectification and customer classification, to support drive train developer during the product development process. In this case, the term “comfort objectification” can be clarified as reproduction of subjectively sensed convenience of a passenger through objectively measurable values. Many factors, such as noise, vibration, physical or psychological condition of a passenger generally influence the ride comfort. The main purpose of this project is to develop the drive train and his assemblies which can sustain customers’ demand of vibration comfort. The presented methods enable the identification and the evaluation of vehicle dynamic properties from the passengers’ point of view during start-up, shifting, steering as well as other procedures in the early stage of the product development process. For instance, this tool is developed for the evaluation of ride comfort during a start-up of a front-drive, intermediate-class car. To estimate the subjective sensation, the new driver modeling tool based on ANN is developed from the way individual drivers make their assessment. This paper presents a user-friendly interface which allows both experts and users who are still short of experience in the ANN field, to create different network structures depending on the task. By means of this tool, the modeling process can be effectively simplified and shortened. As a result, the objective values captured during each drive test are efficiently correlated with the subjective sensation. Consequently, the high performance of comfort prediction can be achieved. By using self organizing map as a tool for driver classification, the different types of drivers can be considered due to their comfort expectation and style of driving. The comfort prediction concerning each driver group can then be carried out. According to the approach of virtual drive train development, in this study, the elaborated multi-body simulation models are primarily used to generate several virtual start-up processes. This enables the determination of NVH properties of the future product and allows the developer to investigate the effect of vibration like judder and jerking on the degree of ride comfort. By applying objective data from the simulation, the comfort assessment using the presented tools can be executed. In the long run, costly drive tests and cost-intensive prototypes can be partially replaced.

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