Download or read book Managing New Product and Process Development written by Steven C. Wheelwright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of products to market more quickly than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition. The authors present principles for developing speed and efficiency.

Download or read book Revolutionizing Product Development written by Steven C. Wheelwright and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, a company's capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of superior products to market quicker than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition, contend leading product development experts Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark. Drawing on six years of in-depth, systematic, worldwide research, they present proven principles for developing the critical capabilities for speed, efficiency, and quality that have worked again and again in scores of successful Japanese, American, and European fast-cycle firms. The authors argue that to survive, let alone succeed, today's companies must construct a new "platform" -- with new methodologies -- on which they can compete. Using their model for development strategies, Wheelwright and Clark show that firms can create a solid architecture for the integration of marketing, manufacturing, and design functions for problem solving and fast action -- particularly during the critical design-build-test cycles of prototype creation. They demonstrate further how successful firms such as Honda in automobiles, Compaq in personal computers, Applied Materials in semi-conductors, Sony in audio equipment, The Limited in apparel, and Hill-Rom in hospital beds have employed recent methodologies to bring new products to market at break-neck speed. Such innovations include design for manufacturability, quality function deployment, computer-aided design, and computer-aided engineering. Finally, Wheelwright and Clark emphasize the importance of learning in the organization. Companies that consistently "design it right the first time" and follow a path of continuous improvement in product and process development have a formidable edge in the crucial race to market.

Download or read book Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s written by Thomas J. Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most pathbreaking and influential business books of the 1990s is The Corporation of the 1990s by Michael Scott Morton. Its expert view of how information technology would influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in the 1990s has become the benchmark of thinking about information technology. Now, in a supporting companion volume, Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s makes available the research on which The Corporation of the 1990s was based. The research was conducted at the Sloan School of Management at MIT by the Management in the 1990s program. The program was funded by a group of 12 industrial and government sponsors from the United States and Britain which included American Express, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak, British Petroleum, MCI Communications, General Motors, U.S. Army, ICL Ltd., Internal Revenue Service, Ernst & Young, BellSouth, and CIGNA Corporation. Information Technology and the Corporation of the 1990s aims to disseminate ideas on how organizations can manage the impact of information technology, and also to raise issues and stimulate further thought by both academics and professionals. The book is divided into three sections which cover the information technology revolution, strategic options, and organization and management responses. It incorporates the work of many important scholars including Charles Jonscher, Michael J. Piore, Thomas W. Malone. JoAnne Yates, Robert I. Benjamin, Gary W. Loveman, Eric von Hippel, Edgar H. Schein, Stanley M. Besen, Garth Saloner, N. Venkatraman, Akbar Zaheer, John C. Henderson, Jay C. Cooprider, Kevin Crowston, Jeongsuk Koh, Gordon Walker, Laura Poppo, John S. Carroll, Constance Perin, Brian T. Pentland, John Chalykoff, Lotte Bailyn, D. Eleanor Westney, Sumantra Ghoshal, John D.C. Little, Thomas J. Allen, Oscar Hauptman, Lisa M. Lynch, Paul Osterman, Thomas A. Kochan, and John Paul MacDuffie.

Download or read book Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma written by Fausto Pedro García Márquez and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lean Manufacturing, also called lean production, was originally created in Toyota after the Second World War, in the reconstruction period. It is based on the idea of eliminating any waste in the industry, i.e. any activity or task that does not add value and requires resources. It is considered in every level of the industry, e.g. design, manufacturing, distribution, and customer service. The main wastes are: over-production against plan; waiting time of operators and machines; unnecessary transportation; waste in the process itself; excess stock of material and components; non value-adding motion; defects in quality. The diversity of these issues will be covered from algorithms, mathematical models, and software engineering by design methodologies and technical or practical solutions. This book intends to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the current state, cases studies, hardware and software solutions, analytics, and data science in dependability engineering.

Download or read book ARIS Business Process Modeling written by August-Wilhelm Scheer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in detail how ARIS methods model and identify business processes by means of the UML (Unified Modeling Language), leading to an information model that serves as the basis for a systematic and intelligent development of application systems. Multiple real-world examples using SAP R/3 illustrate aspects of business process modeling including methods of knowledge management, implementation of workflow systems and standard software solutions, and the deployment of ARIS methods.

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Download or read book The Evolution of Global Paper Industry 1800 2050 written by Juha-Antti Lamberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective. At the centre are 16 producing countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, the USA, Germany, Canada, Japan, the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Russia). A comparative study of the paper industry evolution can achieve the following important research objectives. First, we can identify the country specific historical features of paper industry evolution and compare them to the general business trends explicable by existing theoretical knowledge. Second, we can identify and isolate the factors causing both the rise and fall of industrial populations. Third, a shared research agenda can produce an intensive analysis of global industry dynamics. Finally, an extended research period of 250 years can identify what is truly unique in the paper industry evolution and the extent to which it took the same path as other important manufacturing industries.

Download or read book The Human Face of War written by Jim Storr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare is hugely important. The fates of nations, and even continents, often rests on the outcome of war and thus on how its practitioners consider war. The Human Face of War is a new exploration of military thought. It starts with the observation that much military thought is poorly developed - often incoherent and riddled with paradox. The author contends that what is missing from British and American writing on warfare is any underpinning mental approach or philosophy. Why are some tank commanders, snipers, fighter pilots or submarine commanders far more effective than others? Why are many generals sacked at the outbreak of war? The Human Face of War examines such phenomena and seeks to explain them. The author argues that military thought should be based on an approach which reflects the nature of combat. Combat - fighting - is primarily a human phenomenon dominated by human behaviour. The book explores some of those human issues and their practical consequences. The Human Face of War calls for, and suggests, a new way of considering war and warfare.

Download or read book Essentials of Marketing Analytics written by Joseph F. Hair (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Preface We developed this new book with enthusiasm and great optimism. Marketing analytics is an exciting field to study, and there are numerous emerging opportunities for students at the undergraduate level, and particularly at the masterís level. We live in a global, highly competitive, rapidly changing world that is increasingly influenced by digital data, expanded analytical capabilities, information technology, social media, artificial intelligence, and many other recent developments. We believe this book will become the premier source for new and essential knowledge in data analytics, particularly for situations related to decision making that can benefit from marketing analytics, which is likely 80 percent of all challenges faced by organizations. Many of you have been asking us to write this book, and we are confident you will be pleased it is now available. This second edition of Essentials of Marketing Analytics was written to meet the needs of you, our customers. The text is concise, highly readable, and value-priced, yet it delivers the basic knowledge needed for an introductory text on marketing analytics. We provide you and your students with an exciting, up-to-date text and an extensive sup-plement package. In the following sections, we summarize what you will find when you examineóand we hope, adoptóthe second edition of Essentials of Marketing Analytics"--

Download or read book Total Quality Development written by Don Clausing and published by American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a step-by-step improvement program that unites the world's best technology development and management practices with the power of concurrent engineering, enhanced quality function deployment, and Taguchi's system of quality engineering. The result--a pioneering comprehensive system for total quality product development. This book shows how to: Create greater product variety, Improve corporate flexibility, Reduce rework, Minimize pseudocreativity, Build team consensus and commitment, Develop dominant concepts and robust designs, Design for manufacturability and maintainability, and Eliminate the 10 Cash Drains that plaque traditional product development.

Download or read book Cybersecurity for Industry 4 0 written by Lane Thames and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to cybersecurity and its impact on the realization of the Industry 4.0 vision. It covers the technological foundations of cybersecurity within the scope of the Industry 4.0 landscape and details the existing cybersecurity threats faced by Industry 4.0, as well as state-of-the-art solutions with regard to both academic research and practical implementations. Industry 4.0 and its associated technologies, such as the Industrial Internet of Things and cloud-based design and manufacturing systems are examined, along with their disruptive innovations. Further, the book analyzes how these phenomena capitalize on the economies of scale provided by the Internet. The book offers a valuable resource for practicing engineers and decision makers in industry, as well as researchers in the design and manufacturing communities and all those interested in Industry 4.0 and cybersecurity.

Download or read book Portfolio Management For New Products written by Robert G. Cooper and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-03-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new approach to maximizing the value of your company's product development projects.

Download or read book Concurrent Engineering Fundamentals Integrated product development written by Biren Prasad and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough, original guide to using Concurrent Engineering principles to develop products that meet customer needs -- and to do so as quickly and efficiently as possible.This book shows how CE encompasses manufacturing competitiveness, life-cycle management, process reengineering, cooperative workgroups, systems engineering, information modeling, and product, process and organization integration. This book also identifies, for the first time, 25 fundamental CE metrics and measures. These are categorized into four groups: simulations and analysis, product feasibility and quality assessment, design for X-ability assessment, and process quality assessment. The book describes the new process of Concurrent Function Deployment, which allows workgroups to work concurrently on conflicting values and compare notes and common checkpoints. Extensive exercises and illustrations are included throughout. Managers involved in any type of product development.

Download or read book Industrial Renaissance written by William J. Abernathy and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report on production management, manufacturing competitiveness, and the evolutionary process of technologys, based on a case study of the USA motor vehicle industry - discusses Innovation trends 1893-1981, causes of current industrial decline (incl. De- maturity, technological obsolescence, competition and labour relations); provides comparisons of labour productivity, labour costs and production costs with Japan; stresses the need for product development, workers participation, and quality of working life. Graphs, references.

Download or read book Creating Innovative Products Using Total Design written by Stuart Pugh and published by Prentice Hall PTR. This book was released on 1996 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every product development professional should have a copy of this book because it covers the entire spectrum of the product design process. In particular, it emphasizes that a total design approach--in all its complexity--is absolutely essential for consistent success in product development.

Download or read book Managing Quality written by David A. Garvin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1988 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case study research conducted in 1981 in nine US companies and seven Japanese companies.

Download or read book The Sources of Innovation written by Eric von Hippel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been assumed that new product innovations are typically developed by product manufacturers, an assumption that has inevitably had a major impact on innovation-related research and activities ranging from how firms organize their research and development to how governments measure innovation. In this synthesis of his seminal research, von Hippel challenges that basic assumption and demonstrates that innovation occurs in different places in different industries. Presenting a series of studies showing that end-users, material suppliers, and others are the typical sources of innovation in some fields, von Hippel explores why this variation in the "functional" sources of innovation occurs and how it might be predicted. He also proposes and tests some implications of replacing a manufacturer-as-innovator assumption with a view of the innovation process as predictably distributed across users, manufacturers, and suppliers. Innovation, he argues, will take place where there is greatest economic benefit to the innovator.