Creating Knowledge Environment during Lean Product Development Process of Jet Engine

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.

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Implementation of Lean Tools and Methodologies in Design

Volume 3: Design, Materials and Manufacturing, Parts A, B, and C ◽

10.1115/imece2012-89022 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mohamed E. M. El-Sayed

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

Design Process ◽

Lean Manufacturing ◽

Development Process ◽

Fundamental Principle ◽

Product Development Process ◽

Lean Thinking ◽

Lean Principles ◽

Lean Product Development ◽

Lean Tools

Research efforts in lean design are usually focused on enabling lean manufacturing or managing the product development processes. Very few efforts, however, have been directed towards the design process itself. While the most successful lean applications started with the manufacturing process, due to its nature and the ability to identify the process wastes, the full impact of lean thinking can only be achieved when applied at the beginning of the product development process starting with early design phases. Considering that the first and most fundamental principle in lean thinking is to realize value from the customer’s perspective, it is essential that a lean product development process implementation assures the flow of this value throughout the process. This can only be accomplished when lean principles, tools, and methodologies are utilized in all phases from concept development in the design phase to manufacturing in the production phase. In this paper, the utilization of lean principles, tools, and methodologies during the design process is discussed. In addition, the adaptation of several lean tools and methodologies to assist in applying the lean principles throughout the different phases of the design process is demonstrated. To illustrate the concepts, adaptation process, and implementation some examples are presented.

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Design of Butter Spreader- An Application of Generic Product Development Process

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b3298.078219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 6280-6284

Keyword(s):

Product Development ◽

New Product Development ◽

Development Process ◽

New Product ◽

Generic Product ◽

Product Development Process ◽

Lean Product Development ◽

Overall Design ◽

Customer Dissatisfaction

In the current competitive scenario after globalization, product development process is a very challenging task as it depends on various factors from Customers says to Government policies. Today’s customer is technically smart and well aware about the quality of the product. Even just a word about customer dissatisfaction is sufficient to defame the brand image of the product in the market. To avoid such circumstances, it is essential to excercise scientific techniques of product development, so that manufacturers can concentrate on product quality, customer satisfaction, etc. To fulfill the requirements of the manufacturer regarding product development various approach to new product development like Lean product development, Spiral product development, agile product development have been developed by the researchers and the industrial experts. The Generic product development process is a very simple approach in the above-mentioned methodologies. This article discusses the development of butter spreader by using Generic product development process. However, in the initial phase the work is limited up to the overall design of the product.

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