Partnership development between product customer and tool and die supplier

2005 ◽  
Vol 219 (4) ◽  
pp. 365-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Tang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Collaborative Partnership ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Know How ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
The Right ◽  
Development And Management

Generally, the tool and die industry is acting as a tooling supplier for customers' product development. It is widely acknowledged that tool and die suppliers are now more than ever having to improve the cooperation or collaboration level with their customers to gain the tooling market. However, real cooperation or collaboration between product customer and tool and die supplier cannot be achieved before an appropriate partnership is developed. Moreover, the partnership needs to be adaptive to the changing market and requirement levels of customers. The purpose of the present research is to investigate adaptive partnership development between product customer and tool and die supplier through several steps. A set of performance measurements are defined to help the product customer evaluate the capability of tool and die supplier candidates. Different interfaces between product customer and tool and die supplier are analysed. How to develop the right interface structure for adaptive partnership between them is discussed. According to the rational early supplier involvement (ESI) methodology, the adaptive partnership requires the tool and die supplier to justify its role as an active partner along the entire product development process chain, and a decision model is established to specify the ESI partnership between product customer and tool and die supplier. It is suggested that the collaborative partnership be implemented through stronger integration of the tool and die supplier's know-how into the customer's product development process. It is hoped that this research idea can provide comprehensive support for partnership development and management between product customer and tool and die supplier.

The Significance of Specifications in the Product Development Processes

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gritt Ahrens ◽  
Oliver Tegel
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Information Infrastructure ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Product Development Processes

Abstract An approach to support the appropriate definition, formulation and presentation of requirements obeying the needs of the employees is being presented. Classifiying the needs for information of the employees according to some characteristics, a guideline for how to promote the information needed by them can be developed. The goal is to ensure that everyone involved in the process — even the subcontractor — has the right information available in the right form at the right time. Defining requirements lists, splitting them into partial requirements lists for each area of the company, each process phase or each team, and then formulating these requirements and presenting them in an adequate way is the proceeding strived for. The result will be implemented into an information infrastructure to support the product development process continuously.

Integrating Market Research With the Product Development Process: A Step Towards Design for Profit

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satyandra K. Gupta ◽  
Anoop K. Samuel
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Measurement Techniques ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Procedure ◽  
Conjoint Measurement ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Design Option

Abstract This paper describes a systematic approach for integrating market research with the product development process. The following three problems are addressed in this paper. First, a demand estimation algorithm has been developed based on conjoint measurement techniques. Second, an integrated design decision model has been developed. The main components of this design decision model are representation of available design options using AND/OR tree based representation, and an evaluation procedure for evaluating profit resulting from a design option. Third, a heuristic search technique has been developed that makes use of the design decision model to select the design option that maximizes the profit. Integration of market research with the product development process is expected to result in the following two benefits. First, it will reduce the number of design iterations. Second, it will help the design team in finding the most profitable product designs.

Evaluation and Prioritization of Cross-Linked Requirements in the Automotive Development Process

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia Ilie ◽  
Udo Lindemann ◽  
Andreas Kain
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Computational Procedure ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Information Criteria ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Cross Linking ◽  
Phase Complex ◽  
The Right

During the initial stages of a project, a crucial course is set that can determine the success or failure of the project. During this phase requirements are determined, analyzed and allocated to the corresponding product development phase. Complex products with a high degree of customization require the management of a large amount of information. The prioritization of this information in regard to their time sequence in the product development process has to be analyzed. Interviews conducted in the automotive industry show that the requirement management processes in the early design phases are insufficient and lack solid categorization and prioritization methodologies. This study presents a methodical procedure to improve the allocation of the right information to the right time in the development process. In this methodology, the prioritization of requirements as a function of the degree of cross-linking was achieved through three steps: 1. the evaluation criteria definition, 2. the establishment of a computational procedure, 3. the evaluation of requirements and the calculation of their priority. In the first step, an information prioritization signature was created consisting of a set of relevant information criteria and class structures to allow for the evaluation of the varied spectrum of requirements. In the second step, not only the degree of cross-linking is considered but additionally the types of links between requirements are worked out to allow for prioritization. Finally in the third step, a case study is presented to validate the methodology and provide the reader with an example of how requirements are evaluated and prioritized.

scholarly journals COMPETENCES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECODESIGN PRODUCTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1735-1744
Author(s):  
D. Kattwinkel ◽  
B. Bender
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
System Thinking ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Know How ◽  
Do So

AbstractTo respond to today's needs, engineers must be able to develop sustainable and environmentally compatible products and systems. To do so, they have to carry out new or changed activities and tasks within the product development process and therefore have to obtain new or changed competences. This publication examines which specific competences from the competence groups system thinking and communication are especially important for the development of Ecodesign products apart from technical know-how and should thus be included in a future higher education engineering course.

scholarly journals Efficient virtual garment fit evaluation infrastructure based on synthetic avatar target customer groups for MtM application

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-169
Author(s):  
Michael Ernst ◽  
Antje Christophersen ◽  
Monika Böhm ◽  
Ulrich Botzenhardt
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Level Structure ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Automatic Process ◽  
Process Step ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
Virtual Product Development ◽  
The Right

Customization becomes more and more popular and influences the product development process in apparel industry. In addition to individualized products, the fit of garments is very important for the customization. Numerous tools are used to take the right measurements, to transport individual posture information and to implement these data correctly into a product pattern based on a predefined construction system. Unfortunately, in most cases the mass customization process takes place without a fitting session. Usually fit and design will be checked in the last process step, when the product is already manufactured. Virtual product development is a powerful tool to change this process getting an early fit and design check. By using a test population representing the target group, it is possible to check the sizing and to screen the fit of a product on individual bodies and postures in a short time. In a joint project between the Virtual Lab of Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and Avalution GmbH, a practical approach for the implementation of a fitting session to a mass customization product development process was developed. The entire process has a three-level structure: First, the avatar population is built up using garment specific body measurements. Connected to a 3D simulation program, an automatic process of determining the made-to-measure (MtM) values, carrying out the MtM grading and the fitting on the selected avatar are initiated. In a special application, the digital try-ons are finally output as images in different physical aspects for evaluation.

A Conceptual Model for the Implementation of Lean Product Development

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Aikhuele ◽  
Faiz Turan
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Measuring Method ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Performance Measurements ◽  
Lean Thinking ◽  
Lean Product Development

Companies are faced with the need to address their product development challenges innovatively in order to stay competitive in today's market. One way of doing that is the integration of lean thinking in their product development process. However, due to the lack of clear understanding of the lean thinking performance measurements, the near absent of a holistic and unifying measuring method and the near or non-existence of an evaluating conceptual model to allow for the evaluation of the performance of the lean product development processes, many companies are unable to fully implement the lean thinking principle in their Product development process. In dealing with these issues, this article has therefore proposed a conceptual model which is based on some core critical success factors for the examination of lean performance in the product development process.

scholarly journals Fashion Product Development Process with Reference to Women's Participation

JWEE ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 17-35
Author(s):  
Milica Slijepčević ◽  
Karolina Perčić
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Fashion Products ◽  
Leather Processing ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

The process of the development of new fashion clothing requires all actors in the process to invest tremendous effort in order for the right model to reach its customer at the right time and in the right place. Although the textile and leather processing industry in Serbia employs large number of people, little attention has been paid to fashion marketing, thus it is the subject of this paper as regards the process of the development of fashion products with reference to participation of women in this process, with the aim of presenting characteristics and specificities of the said, along with the results of the secondary research in relation to the subject mentioned.

Highly Iterative Product Development Process for Engineering Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 794 ◽  
pp. 532-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic Diels ◽  
Stefan Rudolf ◽  
Günther Schuh
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Know How ◽  
Early Validation ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Engineering Projects

Many companies are exposed to the challenge to fulfill constantly growing heterogeneous costumer requirements and simultaneously deliver the highest quality standards for their products. One way to face these challenges is the highly iterative product development approach. The content of this approach is the division of the current development process in many short and iterative sub processes (sprints). This procedure enables a regular involvement of the customer in the development process and an early validation of the development status which jointly results in costumer-specific and marketable products. As a consequence of this short-cycled approach the requirements for the practiced process of development projects change fundamentally. However, most companies do not know how this new short-cycle development process has to look like for their daily project work. This is due to the fact that most published papers just deal with the description of how the highly iterative methods look like, however, without considering the challenges an implementation in a producing company involves. This paper aims at the presentation of a standard approach for the handling of highly iterative product development projects.

Leadership in the Product Development Process

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30
Author(s):  
Hugh E. McLoone
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Development Process ◽  
New Products ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Evaluative Process ◽  
Product Design Process ◽  
The Right

Creativity can be viewed as a chaotic or unplanned activity. The product design process often may seem like chaos as well, but this is not inevitable. Designers and human factors/ergonomics (HF/E) professionals follow a clear design process with phases, levels, and methods for creation of successful new products. Research methods are offered at the right time during this process to generate new concepts and to evaluate designs. We work together to create innovative, valued, and successful products via a generative, iterative, evaluative process.

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