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  • Defining and comparing risks and success measures of the reference design process and traditional new product development processes

    Creator:
    Larson, Tasha M.
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    To address aggressive global competition, retain customers and increase revenue, firms are required to pursue New Product Development (NPD) projects. Ventures of this nature are risky and fail often. Numerous factors influence the survival of a project. In this research, 16 factors have been identified and selected as indicators of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    ] “Innovation refers to the creation of a product, service or process” Veryzer [17] “The most unambiguous

  • Integrated Manufacturing Process and System Analysis to Assist Sustainable Product Design

    Creator:
    Raoufi, Kamyar
    Abstract:
    Product development in the 21st century requires integrating sustainability performance evaluation with product design and manufacturing activities. A variety of factors, including climate change, public awareness, and increasingly strict regulations have compelled companies to design and manufacture more sustainable products. While the design phase typically accounts for only 5-7% of...
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    Dissertation
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    Product Design,” Journal of Cleaner Production, 211, pp. 730–741 (ref. [45]) The review of

  • A multi-product, multi-depot periodic distribution problem

    Creator:
    Parthanadee, Parthana
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    Physical distribution is one of the key functions in logistics systems, involving the flow of products from manufacturing plants or distribution centers through the network of transportation to consumers. The function is very costly, especially for the distribution industries. During the past decades, the significance of physical distribution has increased...
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    Dissertation
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    LIST OF APPENDIX TABLES Appendix Table A.1 The daily demands for a product of two customers for two

  • Quantifying product development efforts : a methodology

    Creator:
    Boer, Michael R.
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    Product development efforts are extremely important to a company's success in today's global competitive business environment. Yet, these highly consequential efforts are terribly nebulous to a point that past experiences are inherently underutilized. This thesis demonstrates a methodology to quantify past product development efforts in an attempt to better utilize...
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    Masters Thesis
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    development effort. Many facets of product development have been studied and many books and journal

  • Trust, communication and creativity in new product development teams

    Creator:
    Siacotos, Thomas John Charles
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    The researcher explored interpersonal trust (a construct from the fields of psychology and sociometry) in the context of engineering work groups. The study explored the potential antecedents of trust and the relationships among trust, creativity, communication, emotional empathy and positive affect. The study attempts to argue that 1) trust is...
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    Masters Thesis
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    INNOVATION To survive, manufacturers of medical devices must innovate product designs and introduce them

  • Manufacturing flexibility in new product development : perceptions and implications of new product performance

    Creator:
    Larso, Dwi
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    New product development has been considered a key success factor for today's businesses. Long term survival of many manufacturing organizations depends on how successful organizations are introducing new products to compete in existing markets or in creating new markets. Despite the importance of new product development, many manufacturing organizations face...
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    Dissertation
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    technological innovation strategies. Maihotra et al. (1996) offer triads of new product development framework

  • Integrating product design and manufacturing process : a framework and implementation

    Creator:
    Li, Yu-An
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    The importance of integrating design and manufacturing becomes apparent when the increase in the degree of difficulty of change is observed as the product development proceeds from concept to production in a serial engineering process. The greatest opportunity in design for manufacture occurs at the initial design stage before any...
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    Masters Thesis
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    difficulty of change is observed as the product development proceeds from concept to production in a serial

  • A study of the application of lean practices to new product development processes

    Creator:
    Choothian, Woraruthai
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    The application of lean to new product development (NPD) processes has been claimed to generate positive impact on NPD performance. There are very few empirical studies, however, on how organizations should apply lean practices or on the exact nature of the impact of lean on NPD performance. To further understand...
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    Dissertation
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    A Study of the Application of Lean Practices to New Product

  • Perspectives : academic research management

    Creator:
    Bahram, Borhan
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    The purpose of this investigation is to explore research management problems pertaining to types of research where direct outputs are in terms of intangible ideas or the kind of knowledge which takes years to be proven applicable or economically fruitful. The study was based on the analysis of the more...
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    Masters Thesis
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    management could increase the extent of its influence and control over both internal and external budgeting

  • An Application of Visual Management to Reduce In-house Material Handling Wastes in SMEs with High Product Variety and Low Volume

    Creator:
    Kopriva, Cody
    Abstract:
    Small and medium-sized enterprises that are characterized by high-mix, low-volume, and highly variable production operations often have unstructured material movement processes that are prone to material handling wastes. These sub-optimal material handling systems are oftentimes a result of small and medium-sized enterprise's limited resources. Current tools to assist organizations in...
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    Application of Visual Management to Reduce In-house Material Handling Wastes in SMEs with High Product