Challenges When Including Sustainability Aspects in Product Development at Two Large Manufacturing Companies in Sweden

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-243
Author(s):  
Fredrik Paulson ◽  
Erik Sundin
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Manufacturing Companies

The journey towards sustainable product development: why are some manufacturing companies better than others at product innovation?

Technovation ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 102239
Author(s):  
Julio Cesar Ferro de Guimarães ◽  
Eliana Andréa Severo ◽  
Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour ◽  
Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour ◽  
Ariane Ferreira Porto Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
Better Than

Agile Montage*/Agile assembly – Assembly planning and assembly system as integral elements of factory planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 109 (09) ◽  
pp. 622-627
Author(s):  
P. Burggräf ◽  
M. Dannapfel ◽  
T. Adlon ◽  
A. Riegauf ◽  
K. Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Assembly Planning ◽  
Assembly System ◽  
Agile Methods ◽  
Assembly Systems ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Economic Optimization ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
Factory Planning ◽  
Solution Approach

Produzierende Unternehmen intensivieren aufgrund zunehmend volatiler Kundenbedürfnisse die Anwendung agiler Produktentwicklungsansätze. Ziel des Beitrags ist die Einführung eines Konzepts zur Befähigung dieser dynamischen Produktentwicklung in der Montage. Der integrative Lösungsansatz basiert auf der wirtschaftlichen Optimierung des Agilitätsgrades von Montagesystemen sowie dem selektiven Einsatz agiler Methoden in der traditionell plangetriebenen Montageplanung als Teil der Fabrikplanung.   To meet more volatile customer needs, manufacturing companies increasingly make use of agile product development approaches. This article aims to introduce a concept to enable for dynamic product development in assembly. This integrative solution approach is based on the economic optimization of the degree of agility of assembly systems and on the selective use of agile methods in traditional, plan-driven assembly planning as part of factory planning.

scholarly journals Strategic Sustainability Risk Management in Product Development Companies: Key Aspects and Conceptual Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (24) ◽  
pp. 10531
Author(s):  
Jesko Schulte ◽  
Carolina Villamil ◽  
Sophie I. Hallstedt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Strategic Risk ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Key Aspects

Society’s transition towards sustainability comes with radical change, which entails significant threats and opportunities for product development and manufacturing companies, for example related to new legislation, shifting customer preferences, and increasing raw material prices. Smart risk management therefore plays a key role for successfully maneuvering society’s sustainability transition. However, from a company perspective, it remains challenging to connect the macro-level societal change with tangible risks for the business on the micro level. Based on interviews with academic and industrial experts, this study identified 21 key aspects for sustainability risk management. Drawing on these results and research from the areas of transition design, strategic sustainable development, and sustainability risk management, a conceptual approach for strategic risk management within the sustainability transition is presented. It builds on layered, double-flow scenario modelling in which backcasting from a vision, framed by basic principles for sustainability, is combined with forecasting from the present. The implications of such scenarios, i.e., risks, can then be identified and managed. By doing so on different scales, connections between macro- and micro-level change can be established. Thereby, product development companies shall be supported in making sustainability an intrinsic part of decision-making across the strategic, tactical, and operational levels to increase competitiveness while contributing to the transition towards a sustainable society.

A case study on FMEA-based improvement for managing new product development risk

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Carrizo Moreira ◽  
Luis Miguel D.F. Ferreira ◽  
Pedro Silva
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
New Product ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Risk

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the applicability of the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as an effective tool for decreasing failure risk in the early phase of the new product development (NPD), which adds to existing literature on the application of FMEA in NPD.Design/methodology/approachThrough the application of action research (AR) methodology, it was possible to develop a case study examining the use of FMEA to decrease NPD risk in an early phase of NPD execution.FindingsThe importance and immediate gains of identifying NPD failures support FMEA's usefulness for NPD risk decrease. Moreover, its user-friendliness, timeliness and cost advantages facilitate the introduction of FMEA in the early phase of NPD execution.Originality/valueFMEA is a well-known method used in manufacturing companies to identify and correct failures in products, processes and systems. This article explores the lack of practice-oriented evidence on the use of FMEA in the early phase of NPD execution and provides support to its applicability and effectiveness.

Toward a Method for Improving Product Architecture Solutions by Integrating Designs for Assembly, Disassembly and Maintenance

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Dagman ◽  
Rikard Söderberg
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Life Cycle ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Product Architecture ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Maintenance And Repair

New customer demands and increased legislation drive business-oriented companies into new business models focusing on the entire life cycle of the product. This forces the manufacturing companies into service-oriented solutions as a compliment to the original business areas. Takata [1] postulates that “the goal is no longer to produce products in an efficient way, but rather to provide the functions needed by society while minimizing material and energy consumption”. This new situation affects the product requirements as well as product development process (PD). When focusing on the entire product life cycle, product aspects such as maintenance and repair will receive more attention since the companies will be responsible for them. In the product development process of today, especially in the automotive industry, maintenance and repair aspects (repair and maintenance methods and manuals, for example) are currently taken care of when the product is more or less fully developed. Maintenance and repair requirements are difficult to quantify in terms of core product properties (for vehicles, cost, CO2 emissions, weight, and so on). This leads to difficulties in equally considering maintenance and repair requirements while balancing vast amounts of product requirements. This paper focuses on a comparison and discussion of existing design guidelines affecting the structure and organization of parts in an assembled consumer product, such as Design for Assembly (DFA), Design for Maintenance (DFMa), Design for Service (DFS) and Design for Disassembly (DFD) methods. A tool for evaluation and analyzing product architecture as well as assemblability and maintainability is proposed.

QFD and CE as Methodologies for a Quality Assurance in Product Development

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose´ Ricardo Alcantara ◽  
Kazuo Hatakeyama
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Innovation And Technology ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Local Companies ◽  
Selection Of

Quality Function Deployment — QFD combined with Concurrent Engineering — CE as a support tool for the competitive strategy on product development is devised. In this study, beyond the proposed method, it is intended to develop relations with innovational models, arrangements of innovation and technology transfer, learning in organizations, and how the diffusion of knowledge occurs. QFD can also be one those main tools of CE as this identifies the customer’s main requirements translating into the features required for products. The field survey of exploratory and descriptive type, using the questionnaire as data collection technique, was carried out in the manufacturing companies in the fast growing sectors of automobile industries in the State of Parana located in the Southern of Brazil. The selection of sample companies was made intentionally to guarantee of return of answer through the accessibility criteria. The reasons for this fact that can be pointed out are: the use of “home made” methodology to fulfill customer’s requirements, unknowing of the methodology, and the lack of adequate training to use QFD. It is expected that the results of findings, if disseminated adequately among local companies, will help to enhance the competitiveness performance beyond the local market scenario.

Benchmarking Product Development Performance of Manufacturing Companies Using Analytic Network Process: A Field Study

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gu¨ls¸en Akman ◽  
Gu¨l E. Okudan
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Performance Measure ◽  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Performance Measurement System ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
The Impact

Product development is important more than ever for manufacturing firms. A well-designed performance measurement system can assess the impact of product development on the whole company. Such a system can also be utilized for motivating employees, especially product development staff. Naturally, a set of suitable product development measures can provide valuable information for managing the activities and continuous improvement of the product development process. In this paper, via our literature review, we first establish that “a suitable set of performance measures” to assess product development performance is not readily available. Then, we identified performance criteria for assessing product development process effectiveness based on competitive priorities (cost, quality, flexibility, delivery and innovation) followed by ANP analysis. Finally, using a two tier survey setting, the validity and reliability of the criteria set were ascertained, and field data for its (performance measure set) usage as an assessment tool for product development is demonstrated. The field study was conducted by participation of a sample of manufacturing companies in Turkey.

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