{"title":"Rapid Product Development in the USA, Europe and Japan","authors":"N. Waterman, P. Dickens","doi":"10.1108/09642369210056629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210056629","url":null,"abstract":"Reviews, for the USA, Europe and Japan, the current state of development and application of rapid prototyping techniques and their impact on time‐to‐market for new products. These techniques, which are still undergoing rapid development, have already had a dramatic effect on reducing the time‐to‐market for new products by between 60 per cent and per cent and on reducing the cost‐to‐market by between 40 per cent and 70 per cent. Concludes that although the US is ahead of the rest of the world in terms of depth of experience and range of techniques, Europe and Japan are catching up fast in terms of experience and applications. Gives guidelines for the managers of manufacturing companies on the importance of the techniques, the selection of the most appropriate system and how to obtain most of the techniques adopted.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127794427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced Quality Functional Deployment","authors":"H. Mill","doi":"10.1108/09642369210056610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210056610","url":null,"abstract":"Quality functional deployment (QFD) can be a powerful technique if appropriately applied. However, it can generate a great deal of paperwork and sometimes the benefits are disappointing. Presents a number of analysis tools which should be used in conjunction with QFD. These tools provide enhancements which help to understand the nature of the product and demonstrate how to use QFD more effectively.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121556114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond the QFD House of Quality: Using the Downstream Matrices","authors":"D. M. Scheurell","doi":"10.1108/09642369210054216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210054216","url":null,"abstract":"QFD is a product development and implementation tool to translate the customer′s product requirements into the design of the equipment to make that product, and then into the manufacturing plan to produce that product. QFD ensures that the “voice of the customer” is not lost as plans for changing a product or making a new one proceed from concept generation through to production start‐up. Focuses on steps beyond the house of quality: the process planning and the production planning matrices, and emphasizes the practical application of QFD to new product development. Describes the formation of the QFD team, at Kimberley Clarke Corporation, the strategies used to get around the barriers that existed, the results of the effort of the programme, and the transformation in the use of QFD from a “tool” to “the culture” by which business gets done on this programme.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117124561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Systematic Redesign of a Fire Hose Reel","authors":"J. W. Stevens, J. Eijsink","doi":"10.1108/09642369210054261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210054261","url":null,"abstract":"Gives an elaboration of the systematic design approach on a practical level, i.e. the redsign of a fire hose reel. Describes the redsign process from the problem definition phase to the detail design phase. Looks at methods and techniques used during the design process and presents the design results of every phase from design specification to the relevant details of the new design. These design result have been used in the frequent communication between the client and the external engineering bureau Stevens & Van Vreeland. Gives special attention to the DFA‐method because assembly is a very important aspect (cost saving) for this product. Analyses and compares the old and new product using DFA. The advantages were to show explicitly (in terms of costs and assembly time) the obtained improvements, to optimize details in the new design and to invent some efficient assembly methods and tools. Finally shows the achievement of a reduction of assembly costs of approximately 50 percent.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125152690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Seven Step Procedure for Design for Manufacture","authors":"F. Fabricius","doi":"10.1108/09642369210054243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210054243","url":null,"abstract":"Design for Manufacture (DFM) is design procedure which aims at assisting the developing of a new generation of industrial products, in order to improve their manufacturability. DFM can lead to significant gains in productivity (often several hundred per cent). Unlike automation, DFM requires little or no extra investment compared with traditional product development. DfM can be applied in both high‐volume production and in small‐scale production. DFM addresses the product on several levels, including: the corporate level, the family level, the structural level and the component level. One of the main attributes of DFM is to avoid the untimely focus on detailed design and increase the attention on conceptual design of the product.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115779988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing with the Best","authors":"K. Nichols","doi":"10.1108/09642369210054225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210054225","url":null,"abstract":"Operational improvement is being overtaken by the ability to bring superior, cheaper products on to the market in amazingly short periods of time. EDS and the Design Council joined forces to initiate the UK Benchmarking Survey examining how well UK manufacturing companies are performing in bringing new products to the market. Questionnaires, sent out in 1992 to a range of discrete manufacturing companies in the UK, sought opinions from the board room down to the planning offices. Surveys included questions on time predictability, cast predictability and engineering changes. Results show a small group of companies are capable of competing on the top level, while many other companies have potential but lack the ability to convert investment into results.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125175572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Delivering the Promise","authors":"Robert Williams","doi":"10.1108/09642369210049942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210049942","url":null,"abstract":"Focuses on the benefits of actually carrying out the tenets of simultaneous, or concurrent, engineering on a project. The advantages are not explained in purely theoretical fashion but rather, are presented with factural data and experiential retrospect. The Hewlett‐Packard (HP) 34401A Multimeter not only represents a breakthrough in its market and specifications, but also a radical improvement in the product development process and subsequent manufacturing processes required to bring it to the marketplace in a tough global economy. Shows how HP integrates tools such as DFMA, QFD, and activity‐based‐costing into the concurrent engineering process to give the customer what he really wants at a competitive price. Lower manufacture and assembly techniques, lower cost and higher reliability is being achieved.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114965481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keeping PACE with the Market","authors":"D. Gilmore","doi":"10.1108/09642369210049906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210049906","url":null,"abstract":"If a company is to compete in today′s aggressive marketplace it will require more than an ability simply to manufacture products. With innovation cycles within the high‐tech industry rapidly shortening, simply to survive, a company must be able to turn ideas into successful products in half is previous best time. Add the complication of controlling product development across international boundaries as our world shrinks, and the challenges become severe indeed. Du Pont Composites addressed these twin issues by implementing Pittiglio Rabin Todd & NcGrath′s PACE (Product And Cycle‐time Excellence) methodology. Documents the changes necessary fir Du Pont to become a world‐class product developer.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127209811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investing in Training","authors":"R. Reeve","doi":"10.1108/09642369210049933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210049933","url":null,"abstract":"Examines the importance of training in today′s marketplace, at a time when a great many examples of technology, tools and techniques are at the disposal of companies. Investigates the costs of training and offsets this by examining the benefits. Concludes that companies are still wasting valuable resources by not properly addressing the requirements of individuals or organizations. There is an importance in providing the correct training for the correct person/organization at the correct time.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114675851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improved Innovation Processes","authors":"Frank A. Andriesse","doi":"10.1108/09642369210049898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210049898","url":null,"abstract":"Time is becoming increasingly important as a competitive weapon. The available time to turn RD the high pressure project‐start‐up method. A case‐description of a PSU in a high‐tech environment is enclosed. Concludes with a description of the positive effects of information technology.","PeriodicalId":113037,"journal":{"name":"World Class Design To Manufacture","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124955016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}