World Class Design to Manufacture: Volume 1 Issue 1
Table of contents
Improved Innovation Processes: The Key in Becoming a Time‐based Competitor?
Frank A. AndriesseTime is becoming increasingly important as a competitive weapon.The available time to turn R&D costs into profit is shrinking. Beinglate brings the risk of never regaining the…
Keeping PACE with the Market
Dean GilmoreIf a company is to compete in today′s aggressive marketplace itwill require more than an ability simply to manufacture products. Withinnovation cycles within the high‐tech…
Simultaneous Engineering
Chris BaylisInvestigates the use of simultaneous engineering at Nissan (aJapanese automotive company) in Europe. Suggests areas where it might beapplied within a company and the results which…
Rapid Product Development Metrics
Bradford L. GoldenseA famous executive once said that “God is entitled toopinion, all others must bring facts and data”. To get agreementon the specific needs of a company, the best approach is to…
Investing in Training
R.C. ReeveExamines the importance of training in today′s marketplace, at atime when a great many examples of technology, tools and techniques areat the disposal of companies. Investigates…
Delivering the Promise
Robert A. WilliamsFocuses on the benefits of actually carrying out the tenets ofsimultaneous, or concurrent, engineering on a project. The advantagesare not explained in purely theoretical fashion…
Design and the Environment
Gregg TongReports on the Management Roundtable′s Second Annual Congress onEnovironmentally‐consciuous Design and Manufacturing: From BestPractices to Profit held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA…
Implementing Simultaneous Engineering
A. Lee‐MortimerProvides an executive summary of a major conference on simultaneousengineering, held in London towards the end of 1993. Rather thandetailing specific presentations, concentrates…