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Quality Costs

Quality Costs

Introduction

Businesses, to be competitive, need to control all costs. Product or service failure can result in large uncontrolled costs. As product development proceeds, the cost of failures increases. The concept is shown in figure 1.

Figure 1

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Filed Under: Articles, Big Data & Analytics, on Tools & Techniques Tagged With: New Product Development, product development, Risk

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Why Excellence May Not Be the Best

Why Excellence May Not Be the Best

When considering a business process improvement (or some other) initiative, we also want to communicate to motivate the right behaviors.  However, initiatives often seem to use buzzwords or use titles familiar to employees that have seen such initiatives come and go (the key word being “go”).

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

What is Design for Assembly?

What is Design for Assembly?

In previous articles we covered design for six sigma and design for lean.  Now let’s take a look at Design for Assembly.  We’ll do this by following the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) thought process, and add design for assembly (DFA) subtopics as follows:

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Assembly, Design for Six Sigma, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Why an owner of a task or deliverable doesn’t really exist…

Why an owner of a task or deliverable doesn’t really exist…

When it comes to ensuring a task or deliverable is accomplished, we often see the word “owner” used.  Perhaps surprisingly, there really is no true ‘owner’ of anything in the context of program or project management.

We can begin explaining this with two adjectives:  responsible and accountable.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Six Sigma, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen 2 Comments

Design for Lean

Design for Lean

In this article series, we covered several topics in the area of product development and project management.  We will now begin to explore process improvement with the topic “Design for Lean”.  While design for lean may be a subtopic within product development, it helps us understand operational risks, operational costs, enables operational planning and process improvement.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Six Sigma, DFSS, DFx, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Critical Thinking for Product Development

Critical Thinking for Product Development

Previous articles have covered product development tools and methodologies such as lean product development, agile, design for six sigma, product life cycle (PLC) and project management processes.

In this article, lets consider “the product” being developed any hardware product, software, IT system, service or new business process.  We’ll use the acronym “PSSBP” (Product, Service, Software, Business Process) as an all-encompassing placeholder and to illustrate critical thinking on the topic as follows:

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Six Sigma, DFSS, DFx, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

What is DFx?

What is DFx?

In a previous article, we defined design for six sigma (DFSS) as a thought process focused on maximizing customer value and minimizing cost.

More specifically, DFSS is used to reduce variability in product performance (thereby increasing value), using analytical models and our knowledge of manufacturing variability to enable specification limits on difficult-to-manufacture tolerances to be increased (thereby reducing cost).

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Six Sigma, DFSS, DFx, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

What is Design for Six Sigma?

What is Design for Six Sigma?

For the majority of organizations, long-term success is tied directly to the new product development process. Tomorrow’s revenue and growth are tightly bound to how successful you are at launching new products.

Offering genuinely valuable, high quality products is, more than ever, the best way to capture market share.  Also, more investment up-front minimizes overall expense.

…fewer design iterations to achieve the same goals (reduced time to market), more efficient production and delivery processes (reduced operating costs), fewer defects & warranty costs during the entire product life cycle (increased customer satisfaction).

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: Critical to Quality, customer value, Design for Six Sigma, DFSS, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, product life cycle, Project Management, six sigma

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Requirements versus Stories

Requirements versus Stories

In this article, we’ll compare and contrast the definition of a requirement, with a ‘story’, which is used in agile/scrum.

Both requirements and stories establish a clear understanding of customer needs in the context of desired functionality.

The framework for each is somewhat different, however.

Recall the definition of a requirement:

…a requirement defines “what the product (or process) design shall provide <output> at operating conditions <input>”

The framework of a story is as follows:

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile, agile product development, customer value, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, project governance, Project Management, scrum

by Robert Allen 1 Comment

The Three Disciplines and Change Management

The Three Disciplines and Change Management

In this weeks article, we’ll explore how the three disciplines (product development, process improvement and project management) can enable change management.

First, it’s worth reflecting on how these disciplines fit together.  Starting with product development our goal is to understand customer value, and to optimize the product (or service) by maximizing customer value and minimizing cost.  It can be seen that, process improvement naturally complements this objective as way to further reduce costs.  In addition, project management establishes how product development and process improvement is planned, executed, controlled and monitored.

Now let’s look at some key attributes of change management, along with elements of the three disciplines mentioned above.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: agile product development, customer value, Lean Project Management, New Product Development, PLC process, product development, project governance, Project Management, resource management

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

What is Lean Product Development (Part I)?

What is Lean Product Development (Part I)?

Lean product development might mean different things to different organizations, but let’s start with the 5 principles of lean manufacturing and see how it can be applied to the product development process. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: customer value, lean manufacturing, lean product development, manufacturing value stream, New Product Development, product development

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Ideation and Product Development

Ideation and Product Development

In recent articles I focused on a ‘linear’ approach to product development by understanding customer needs, establishing requirements (“what the design provides”), establishing a conceptual design, etc.

In this article, I’ll discuss a framework whereby an idea for a product or design might kick-off the process.

Also, rather than a commercialized product, we will assume our goal is to successfully demonstrate the idea’s feasibility.  (This is common for a start-up company, where the business model might be to demonstrate product success with a goal of obtaining more venture capital, or to sell the intellectual property.  Alternatively, a large company might want a separate idea development process that takes invention off the critical path.)

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: New Product Development, product development

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Why Market Requirements Don’t Really Exist

Why Market Requirements Don’t Really Exist

Wouldn’t it be great if we could require the stock market to provide us 15% increases in our portfolio every year…or if we could simply require a sunny day for a picnic?

You might be familiar with the term ‘market requirements’ or a ‘market requirements document’ as a deliverable in the definition phase of a product life cycle process.  To understand why market requirements don’t really exist, we must first provide the definition of a requirement. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: customer value, design, market requirements, PLC, product development, product lifecycle, product requirements, requirements management

by Robert Allen Leave a Comment

Enabling People, Processes and Product Development

Enabling People, Processes and Product Development

Clear roles and responsibilities for project managers and team leaders can significantly improve alignment of skillsets and overall teamwork

A generally accepted principle for a successful business is great people, processes & products. This can be further simplified as “maximizing customer value and minimizing cost” of the product.

Consider the following:

  • An excellent product development process should ensure maximum customer value while product cost is minimized
  • Process improvement minimizes (or reduces) costs across the enterprise
  • Project management ensures execution of product development, or process improvement products

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Filed Under: Articles, on Leadership & Career, Product Development and Process Improvement Tagged With: engineering, Lean Project Management, product development, Product Development Processes, Project Management, Project Manager

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

The Case of Drones

The Case of Drones

Guest post by Dr. Amir Segal & Yizhak Bot of BQR

Introduction

Reliability engineers are equipped with an arsenal of techniques (FTA, RBD, Markov, FMEA / FMECA, SIL) for reliability, availability, safety and maintainability analysis. However, it is not always clear when to use each technique.
In order to design a safe and reliable product, reliability engineering techniques should be integrated with the system design process. This fact is well known, and today many system engineering conferences include discussions regarding reliability and safety [1,2]. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability Tagged With: product development

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