– Manufacturing has a relatively small influence on the overall cost and quality of the product or service supplied. Remember the Value Stream?
– When Lean principles are applied across all the functions in the value stream, true competitive advantage can be gained. This is sometimes known as Lean Enterprise
– Lean Product Development demands an integrated multi-disciplined approach.
A Lean product development process typically has four phases:
- Concept The Vision for the product produced by the programme lead who is a technical expert and is responsible for the product from concept to market
- System design Set based concurrent engineering looks for all possible problems and tries to resolve them early in the process. ‘Sets’ of possible solutions are generated (diverge) then gradually narrow as learning and understanding increases i.e. design converges. Progressively reducing specifications and resolving ambiguity actually shortens development time. The system design team will be multi-functional and often located together.
- Detailed design.
- Proto type & tooling.
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