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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"product development cycle"”.
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Product development cycle time characterization through modeling of process iteration
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1993.
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Applying system dynamics methods to the strategic management of an automotive product development cycle plan
Automotive companies continue to refine their product development processes to reduce total development cycle time and to increase key consumer attributes of quality, safety, package, and design for the vehicles that are produced. Company project planners and vehicle program managers need effective …
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An analysis of early stage prototypes using implementation, look and feel, and role
… or to a progression of prototypes through the product development cycle. Ten physical prototypes from an MIT mechanical engineering senior capstone design course are evaluated according to the Houde and Hill (1997) model. With only a few challenges, the model is found to be applicable to …
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Selecting Appropriate Product Concepts for Manufacture in Developing Countries
There is a noticeable lack of production of indigenously engineered and manufactured products in Less Developed Countries (LDC's). Few products developed in these LDC's could be viable in competitive markets or even sold as components and supplies to other manufacturers of competitive goods. …
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Lean methods above the manufacturing floor in an aerospace military program
Investigate the feasibility of implementing productivity improvement processes such as lean methods to the product development phase of major military aircraft programs. The study concentrated on the understanding of the current state of the industry from the point of view of the customer as well …
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Electrical build issues in automotive product development : an analysis
… Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) have to bring new products with features fast to market. The OEMs need to reduce the Product Development cycle time. Prototype builds are common in automotive product development. Reducing the number of prototype builds and the related builds issues is very …
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Development of CAE system for switched motor drive systems
… of such an environment, the design and product development cycle can be both improved and reduced. The ability to upgrade existing software tools as well as include new tools should be examined. This thesis presents the design of a general purpose CAE environment for motor drive systems. …
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Development of a manufacturing feature-based design system
… systems are based on the serial approach of the product development cycle: the design process is not integrated with other activities and thus it can not provide information for subsequent phases of product development. In order to eliminate this problem, many modern CAD systems allow the …
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Successes of collaborative decision making at the Traffic Flow Management Program Office and the advantages of adopting toolkits
Manufacturers, product designers and developers of products that have a large and diverse user base are consistently trying to produce products that satisfy as many users as possible. Manufacturers and product developers have found that it is extremely difficult to do so. The closer the …
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System interface challenges in combining mature technologies with rigid architectures
… ProGator turf sprayer are long-running legacy products of differing scales for John Deere's product portfolio and their architectures are rigid. The architectures of these products are broken down using Operand-Process Methodology and Design Structure Matrices for component integration and …
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A model for exploration of factors affecting parallel research and development strategies
Early stages of product development are critical to success of the final product. Decisions made in the early stages will affect the design choices available during the entire development cycle. This thesis examines two research and development strategies. One product development strategy is to …
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Internet-based rapid customer feedback for design feature tradeoff analysis
In an increasingly competitive consumer products market, companies are striving to create organizations, processes, and tools to reduce the product development cycle time. As product development teams strive to develop products faster and more effectively, incorporating quantitative market research …
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Identifying lean practices for deriving software requirements
… on employing value added activities to reduce product development cycle time, increase quality, and reduce cost. Lean originated in the automotive industry and has since been centered in the manufacturing domain. Lessons learned on implementing Lean initiatives have been captured by the in the …
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Strategies for dealing with instabilities in a complex, multi-project product development system engineering environment
This thesis evaluates the product development process from the perspective of a multiple gas turbine engine development programs. The risk to meeting cost and schedule requirements has increased solely due to squeezing budgets and schedule to fit the "better, faster, cheaper" mold. The thesis …
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Implementation of hierarchical design for manufacture rules in manufacturing processes
In order to shorten the product development cycle time, minimise overall cost and smooth transition into production, early consideration of manufacturing processes is important. Design for Manufacture (DFM) is the practice of designing products with manufacturing issues using an intelligent system, …
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Design and Testing of a Respiratory Simulator for the Optimization of Soft Robotic Assistive Breathing Devices
… before implantation in specimen. Through the product development cycle undertaken in this thesis, a respiratory simulator was fabricated, assembled, and tested in order to facilitate the optimization of soft robotic pneumatic actuators. We find that the simulator is capable of recreating and …
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A methodology for determining engineering costs and their effects on the development of product families
The goal of most firms is to deliver products that satisfy customer needs. Delivering a variety of differentiated products allows firms to satisfy the broadest range of customers. There is, however, a fundamental tension between this product differentiation and product cost. The use of product …
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Description of a turbofan engine product development process
… explores what requirements are necessary for the development of a turbofan engine and how they evolve through the product development cycle. This work utilizes a parameter-based design structure matrix (DSM) to define the interfaces and interdependencies present in a large commercial aircraft …
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Software defect tracking during new product development of a computer system
… software defects on this integration during new product development is essential to execution of a timely and high-quality product. To analyze the effect of software defects on the product development cycle for a midrange computer system, I have used a particular computer platform, the Productl …
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