Integrating Design and Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage

by Gerald I. Susman (Editor)

Overview

With more emphasis being placed on the cost and quality of new products and on reducing the lead time to develop them, attention is turning to the increasingly important topic of design for manufacturing (DFM). This involves the collaboration among research and development, manufacturing, and other company functions and is aimed at accelerating the new product development process from product conception to market introduction. A company can create a competitive advantage for itself by managing the process and its related organizational dynamics effectively. This collection of essays focuses on the development of strategic capabilities through use of DFM tools and practices, the role of DFM in specific product development phases, and the social, political, and cultural context within which DFM is introduced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195063332
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	10/15/1992
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

College of Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University

Table of Contents

Contributors1. Integrating Design and Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage, Gerald I. SusmanPart I: Strategic Capabilities2. Competitive Advantage Through Design Tools and Practices, Stephan R. Rosenthal and Mohan V. Tatikonda3. Design for Manufacturing in an Environment of Continuous Change, Susan Walsh Sanderson4. Productivity in the Process of Product Development - An Engineering Perspective, Philip Barkan5. The Development/Manufacturing Interface: Empirical Analysis of the 1990 European Manufacturing Futures Survey, Arnoud De Meyer6. Modular Design and the Economics of Design for Manufacturing, Gordon V. ShirleyPart II: DFM and the New Product Development Process7. Concept Development Effort in Manufacturing, John E. Ettlie8. Prototypes for Managing Engineering Design Processes, E. Allen Slusher and Ronald J. Ebert9. Managing DFM: Learning to Coordinate Product and Process Design, Paul S. Adler10. Engineering Change and Manufacturing Engineering Deployment in New Product Development, Paul D. Coughlan11. Manufacturing for Design: Beyond the Production/R&D Dichotomy, Kim B. Clark, W. Bruce Chew and Takahiro FujimotoPart III: Social, Political, and Cultural Context12 Development of a Model for Predicting Design for Manufacturability Effectiveness, Gerald I. Susman and James W. Dean, Jr.13. Organizational Context Barriers to DFM, Jeffrey K. Liker and Mitchell Fleischer14. The Organizational and Management of Engineering Design in the UNited Kingdom, Arthur Francis and DianaWinstanley15. Epilogue, Gerald I. SusmanName IndexSubject Index

Editorial Reviews

"Susman has brought together a group of outstanding worldwide experts to provide practitioners, academics, and students with a core set of concepts and tools that can be used to address the critical tasks in designing for manufacturing in today's competitive world. Using numerous examples both powerful and timely, these articles collectively provide insight into how competitive advantage can be created through the integration of design and manufacturing."—Steven C. Wheelwright, Harvard University

"In the auto industry, those companies which can most fully and rapidly integrate design for manufacturing concepts into their product development processes will generate quality, speed to market and product cost advantages which are critical to success in our business. The Klein Symposium presentations and discussions comprising Integrating Design and Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage provides great insight into the critical elements of a successful design for manufacturing implementation strategy."—William E. Hoglund, Executive Vice President, General Motors Corporation

"The breadth and depth of information available in this book will be especially useful to those readers actively trying to move forward on integration of design and manufacturing in new product development."—Journal of Product Innovation Management

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