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"Developing Products in Half the Time: New Rules, New Tools" With over 50% new content, this update of the industry classic, "Developing Products in Half the Time", reveals how engineers and manufacturing, design, and marketing managers can dramatically accelerate product development projects from packaged goods to medical electronics while simultaneously improving quality. "Managing the Design Factory: The Product Developer's Toolkit"
Here is the first comprehensive approach to managing design-in-process inventory from the best-selling author of "Developing Products in Half the Time". Donald Reinertsen reveals a transparent system for tracking, measuring, and managing invisible "design-in-process" inventory to achieve lower costs, higher profits, and better processes. The book includes 20 line drawings. "Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency, and Quality" This book demonstrates how successful firms such as Honda (automobiles), Compaq (personal computers), Applied Materials (semi-conductors), Sony (audio equipment), The Limited (apparel), and Hill-Rom (hospital) beds have employed recent methodologies to bring new products to market at break-neck speed. Innovations include design for manufacturability, quality function deployment, computer-aided design, and computer-aided engineering.
"Who Moved My Cheese? : An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your
Work and in Your Life"
From one of the world's most recognized experts on management comes a charming parable filled with insights designed to help readers both manage change quickly and prevail in changing times. "Building Better Products With Finite Element Analysis"
This book offers a practical view of finite element analysis (FEA) by reviewing the basics of design analysis from an engineering perspective. It provides practical guidelines for specific design problems such as setting boundaries, contact points between parts, sheet-metal weldments, plastic components, and other common encounter problems. "Applied Strategic Planning: How to Develop a Plan That Really Works"
Written by three top consultants and trainers, this book offers a clear and effective way to identify and implement strategic objectives. It covers all phases of the strategic planning process including determining if an organization is ready for strategic planning. There are charts, diagrams,checklists and 75 illustrations. "Manufacturing Facilities Design and Material Handling"
This is a textbook on the techniques and procedures for laying out a manufacturing plant to maximize the efficiency of handling material. It assumes no mathematics beyond high-school algebra, although some experience with CAD is helpful. The step-by-step explanation is oriented towards building a new plant, but the information is also applicable to redesigning facilities, which is much more common. Questions and answers are included. "The Product Development Challenge: Competing Through Speed, Quality, and Creativity" Best-selling authors Clark and Wheelwright present a collection of the most compelling Harvard Business Review articles on how to achieve a competitive edge by excelling at product development. "World-Class New Product Development: Benchmarking Best Practices of Agile Manufacturers" From the "best of the best" around the globe, here are twelve groundbreaking management practices revolutionizing the way products are now being developed in discreet manufacturing companies in Japan, North America, and Europe. Based on seven years of benchmarking best practices, the authors' findings are drawn from 60 of the leanest, most flexible, and most robust companies in the world.
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