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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Product Complexity"”.
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Harnessing Product Complexity: An Integrative Approach
… are faced with pressure to increase variety in product offerings. While increasing variety can help increase market share and sales growth, the costs of doing so can be significant. Ultimately, variety causes complexity in products and processes to soar, which negatively impacts product …
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Impact of product complexity on inventory levels
… and distribution supply chain of a roll-based product whose width comes in 1-cm increments. We formulate a computer model subject to stochastic, inelastic demand to determine the relationship between width interval and finished goods inventory levels. Assuming that the supply chain operates …
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The relationship between organizational architecture, product architecture, and product complexity
The aircraft gas turbine product architecture and manufacturing infrastructure are used to show the importance in the relationship between the organizational architecture and product architecture. The product complexity, organizational complexity and new product development costs are compared for …
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Effects of Product Complexity on Information Source Importance in Marketing Channels
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Estimation of system assembly and test manufacturing yields through product complexity normalization
… performance resulting from differences on product design and manufacturing processes attributes. This thesis addresses this gap by demonstrating a methodology to relate relevant design and process attributes to the System Assembly and Test manufacturing yield performance of all products. …
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Globally distributed product development : role of complexity in the what, where and how
… four elements of the relationship between Global Product Development or Globally distributed Product Development (GPD) and product complexity. I examine this relationship in the context of medical, industrial and electronic equipment developed for American companies outside each development …
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Optimization Of Strategic Planning Processes For Configurable Products: Considerations For Global Supply, Demand, And Sustainability Issues
… planning problem is to decide on the set of products that a retailer or manufacturer will offer to its customers to maximize profitability. While assortment planning research has been expanding in recent years, the current models are inadequate for the needs of a configurable product …
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Using STPA and CAST to design for serviceability and diagnostics
… and reactive equipment support. Increased product complexity and the fast rate of technology change make problems difficult to understand, prevent, and resolve. The cost of machine unavailability is extreme, and reliability-based design methods ignore service time as a key contributor to …
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Knowledge integration for problem solving in the development of complex aerospace systems
The development of complex products requires widespread knowledge interactions among a significant number of individuals and teams designing numerous interrelated components. Increasing product complexity typically leads to a corresponding increase in the types and sources of knowledge that need to …
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An analysis and mitigation of demand variability on external supply chains
In the pharmaceutical industry, increasing product complexity, shifts towards specialty medicine and growth in emerging markets have resulted in increased forecast variation and manufacturing complexity for new products. In the past six years, AstraZeneca has outperformed its peers in research and …
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Product and program management : battling the strangler trees of system and social complexity in the software market jungle
An exploration of Software Product and Program Management as recently emergent roles in the information technology sector is presented. The exploration is presented in six sections divided into two major parts. The first part, in four sections, explores Product Management from a primarily …
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The impact of software design structure on product maintenance costs and measurement of economic benefits of product redesign
… aimed to demonstrate the link between software product design structure and engineers' effort to perform a code modification in the context of a corrective maintenance task. First, this paper reviews the current state of the art in engineering economics of the maintenance phase of software …
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Building Inventory Simulations for High Velocity Garment Retail Stores
… retail business with high sales velocity and product portfolio complexity, this project created a Monte Carlo tool that simulates how upstream shipment decisions impact capacity utilization and product complexity. The simulation model was built in two steps, first a Monte Carlo model for …
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Framework For Quantifying And Tailoring Complexity And Risk To Manage Uncertainty In Developing Complex Products And Systems
… years there has been a renewed interest in product complexity due its negative impact on launch performance. Research indicates that underestimating complexity is one of the most common errors repeated by new product development (NPD) teams. It was concluded that companies that successfully …
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Managing novelty at the interfaces between concept and product : case studies for the automotive industry
Appearance of the product is a discerning factor for the consumers purchase decisions. Time from concept to product creation is a critical factor in the competitive automotive industry. The period to develop a product is dependant on the people, content and the technology changes that constitute a …
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Lean strategies for future body shop development and operation in the automotive industry by Iker Marcaide.
… by size of workforce, level of utilization and product complexity but which differ considerably by investment required, shop size, uptime, inventory levels and quality accomplished. The purpose of this thesis is to explain why those differences exist. The methods used to understand differences …
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Complexity reduction in automotive design and development
Automobiles are complex products. High product complexity drives high levels of design and process complexity and complicatedness. This thesis attempts to reduce complicatedness in the automotive vehicle design and development process utilizing systems engineering tools including the design …
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Enabling a consumer headset in product development
… growing expectations of the consumer, as well as product complexity, it has become essential for product teams to share and communicate efficiently. It is no longer adequate for the program manager to be the sole focal point, where the voice of the consumer meets the voice of part engineering. As …
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An Application of Lean Thinking to the Furniture Engineering Process
… furniture manufacturers. Engineering impacts the production cost, design quality, product lead time, and customer satisfaction. This research presents a systematic approach to analyze a furniture engineering process through a case study. The research was conducted through a case study in a …
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An Integrated Framework For Configurable Product Assortment Planning
<p>A manufacturer's assortment is the set of products or product configurations that the company builds and offers to its customers. While the literature on assortment planning is growing in recent years, it is primarily aimed at non-durable retail and grocery products. In this study, we develop an …
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