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Ishikawa Prefecture has top-level traditional-handicrafts techniques in Japan and holds a large production value of traditional crafts. However, according to the Department of Commerce and Industry in the Ishikawa Prefectural Government, its production dropped to a one-third compared with that in its best period (1990). Similarly, the output of traditional industries has been greatly reduced in Japan...
In most SMEs in Japan, they have polished their core technologies and delivered new values to a society through the collaboration with members of their supply network of the world. This study discusses small and medium manufactures (SMMs) which are concerned in a social infrastructure construction. In particularly, Matsumoto Machine Corporation is focused as one case company of the object field. They...
Some indexes of R&D productivity have existed such as sales vs. R&D expense, operating income vs. R&D expense, and they are used for relative evaluation among competitors etc. Though top managements would like to know the contribution of R&D expense to sales and profit in a company, the above indexes are not satisfied for them. It is a issue to how R&D expense contributes sales...
The Cyclone division of the company in the case study has been plagued by maintaining sales growth, late delivery of products, a high turnover of staff and a lack of developing new products. The interrelationships between the aspects are complex and contribute towards substandard performance in the division. The investigation set out to determine how the sales function should be managed and how to...
In order to stay globally competitive, manufacturing enterprises face an increasing pressure to bring new products and applications to the markets, to enhance existing products technologically and to produce them at a lower price. New technological findings can enable enterprises to meet these challenges. In practice, technology developments with a long-time horizon are given a low priority compared...
This study discusses knowledge integration in product development organizations for new businesses. The goal is to contribute to establishment of methodology that helps accomplish the purpose of entry into new business. This study analyzes establishment of new product development organizations and their entry into new businesses. There are many differences between existing businesses and new businesses;...
Highly customized products lead to irreproducible complexity in product development and manufacturing. Additionally order processing becomes very complex. Today's product design and IT-tools reduce this complexity insufficiently. Potentials in administration and manufacturing are not fully in line. Most of the relevant approaches for designing products focus on the product without considering interactions...
This article discusses experiences from case studies conducted at product developing departments in four multinational companies. All organizations are outstanding product developing companies with a long and successful historical background within product development. Therefore it is interesting to understand how these companies deal with risks in their product development processes. The aim of the...
The tool and die making industry is located on the critical path in the production industry between its customers in product development and in mass production. An increasingly competitive global production environment has eliminated the traditional advantage in tool quality of high wage countries. This requires the tool and die making industry in high wage countries to achieve differentiation through...
Aligning issues from technology management to corporate and business strategy requires a further aligning of these issues to strategic product planning as well. Aiming a first step regarding a future support for technology-oriented product planning, this paper clarifies, based on a literature search, which technology-related information is required from strategic product planning's perspective and...
New innovations are a decisive competitive advantage in today's global markets. Besides technical improvements the extension of classical product centred offerings with services to a provider of individual solution offers tremendous benefits. Furthermore, an exceptional product styling enables emotionally added value. Developing these offerings requires a joint and structured collaboration among the...
Product platforms are frequently applied in industry for efficiently designing product families. The product platform builds the basis for the derivation of multiple offered variants. Changing the product design to a platform design promises many advantages, e.g. economies of scale, faster time-to-market and less design effort in the derivation of new or updated variants. But the planning and design...
Innovation is a driver of global economy growth. Software intensive systems (SiSs) are embedded in the systems of various leading sectors, such as the automotive, robotics, and mobile phone industries and they are creating new opportunities for innovation. However, SiSs are affected by a rapidly changing market and a reduced time to market. Software product innovation assessment is becoming important...
The relevance of collaborative Product Development (PD) is rising with the decrease of product life cycles combined with growing customer demands. Industrial manufacturers now experience competition in the global market where differentiation is necessary for survival. Hence, in order to differentiate from low-cost competitors and increase PD performance, some industrial manufacturers now seek competitive...
Price declining factors of flat-screen TV with a focus on LCD TV are analyzed from two different aspects in terms of commoditization: Aspect of company's product development such as adoption ratio of self-manufactured panels and offshore production ratio and aspect of LCD panel industry growth. It was confirmed that product development has impact on price decline and that there is a strong relationship...
Efficient und successful development of platform-based product architectures requires a thorough understanding of the organizational structure, its interaction with the product architecture and the development processes. As individual research papers in existing literature are mostly focused on single aspects of the organizational domain, an overview of possible influencing factors on platform-based...
The approaches of target costing and value engineering support product development processes in identifying target costs from a customer perspective and in improving the value cost ratio of a product. This research introduces the approach of Integrated Value Engineering, which combines both approaches in one model. In the Model for Integrated Value Engineering the three levels components, functions...
When considering how to create and frame design the market of data, the question of what is an intention behind the raw data has to be raised. Here a concept of Frame is introduced to capture products consisting of a set of components, such as usage, function, data and material representing raw data. A web based system has been developed to explore an effect of the frame. Although the workplace of...
Design oriented innovation has been recognized as beneficial strategy for organisational development. However, limited research explored how it can be embedded into the New Product Development (NPD) practice in Chinese Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This research mainly focuses on producing a conceptual designer-led NPD process model for introducing design oriented strategy to Chinese manufacturing...
Extending beyond existing discussion on product and process innovation, this paper proposes a new role of design in exploring a new dimension of corporate innovation. In spite of decades of growing awareness of innovation, the engineering and management communities continue to either show scant interest in design, or fail to understand how design can positively enhance innovation. This paper aims...
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