Case study - Push-To-Talk - innovation, time to market & interoperability

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Germer
Keyword(s):  
Time To Market

scholarly journals Product development and risk partnership: a case study

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Érico Veras Marques ◽  
Luiz Carlos Di Serio ◽  
Mauro Furtado
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Products ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
Integrated Development ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
High Investment ◽  
Aeronautical Industry ◽  
Strong Competition ◽  
Customized Products

The aeronautical industry has always been known for having high investment costs concerning capital, personnel, time and technology as it engages in the process of developing new products. The strong competition in the air transport market has been putting pressure on the manufacturers to build new aircraft models in a range of products which assists the specific needs of each segment of the market, that is, always more customized products. The integrated development of products through risk partnership has been used by some industries aiming to minimize the investments mentioned above, as well as to reduce the cycle of products development, what results in reduction of time to market. This work aims to analyze, considering various models of competitiviness, how the Brazilian aeronautical industry is making the integrated development with risk partnerships a real distinguishing feature in the market.

SPEEDING UP INNOVATION: BUILDING NETWORK STRUCTURES FOR PARALLEL INNOVATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (02) ◽  
pp. 1650024 ◽  
Author(s):  
FLEMMING SØRENSEN ◽  
JAN MATTSSON
Keyword(s):  
Innovation Process ◽  
Innovation Network ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Communication Structures ◽  
Competitive Environments ◽  
Open Structures ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Innovation Processes

Minimisation of time-to-market strategies can provide companies with a competitive advantage in dynamic and competitive environments. Using parallel innovation processes has been emphasised as one strategy to speed up innovation processes and consequently minimise the time-to-market of innovations. Much innovation today takes place in open structures in which networks play an important role. However, little is known about how innovation networks can facilitate parallel innovation processes. This paper discusses how innovation network structures develop and support exploration and exploitation in parallel innovation processes and in this way sustain speedy innovation processes. A case study of an innovation network is carried out by analysing communication structures and the information contents of emails related to a particular innovation process. The analysis shows how certain characteristics of the network facilitate the parallel innovation process but also how such processes place new requirements on such networks and their management.

scholarly journals The learning officer decision matrix – a structural equation modeling approach for the management of asynchronous e-Learning projects

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-149
Author(s):  
Nuno Pena
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Decision Matrix ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Corporate Universities ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Projects

Effectiveness is one of the major concerns in corporate e-Learning and is critical when projects face financial and time-to-market constraints. Organizations and corporate universities seek methodologies and tools to help them manage more efficiently diverse e-Learning Projects. This paper describes the outcome of a case study on the assessment of the effectiveness of an eLearning project (n=1317), from sixteen different corporations in the context of insurance and banking industry in Portugal. Results will be presented on the application of the methodology proposed by Levy for the assessment of the effectiveness of e-Learning systems. Based on the output of this assessment, this paper will present a new tool, the Learning Officer Decision Matrix, which will contribute to a more efficient management of corporate e-Learning projects.

scholarly journals Balancing Offshoring and Agility in the Apparel Industry: Lessons From Benetton and Inditex

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (0) ◽  
pp. 16-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Sartal ◽  
Ana Martínez-Senra ◽  
José García
Keyword(s):  
Demand Uncertainty ◽  
Apparel Industry ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Speed To Market ◽  
Demand Changes ◽  
Organizational Innovations ◽  
Lower Production

Based on a case study from the apparel industry, the paper addresses how the organizational innovations adopted by Benetton and Inditex allowed them to balance lower production costs in developing countries with an adequate response time to frequent preference changes and increasing demands for customisation. Findings confirm the fragility of multinationals whose offshoring strategy has not considered the costs of coordinating suppliers in far-off locations and suggest organisational improvements that make production costs, variety and time to market goals compatible. Our research thus provides a view of the conditions and processes that can overcome in increasingly volatile environments the misalignment between demand changes and the limited reactivity of industrial infrastructures. Furthermore the innovation strategy of textile companies has created generalizable lessons for other sectors in which demand uncertainty is high, life cycles short, and customers are, to some extent, prepared to pay for “speed to market”.

Use of Rapid Prototyping Methods for Production

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Markowski ◽  
Harry Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Prototyping ◽  
Rapid Tooling ◽  
State University ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Business People ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
And Training

Abstract Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling (RP/RT) can reduce time-to-market by creating physical parts and tooling from computer files. These can be used for verification of designs, tests and marketing, and also as final products or tools for short run production. Education is critical, because effective use of RP/RT technology requires preparation and training of all parties, including designers, engineers, manufacturing technologists, and business people. This paper reviews advances in RP/RT along with research, education, and a case study conducted at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

scholarly journals Advanced Design Applied to an Original Multi-Purpose Ventilator Achievable by Additive Manufacturing

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Frizziero ◽  
Giampiero Donnici ◽  
Karim Dhaimini ◽  
Alfredo Liverani ◽  
Gianni Caligiana
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Quality Function Deployment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Design For Six Sigma ◽  
Large Scale Production ◽  
Design Systems

Considering the progressively expansive trade world, “time to market” of productions and goods has turned into a key element for business accomplishment. There are diverse practices that antedate design faults and unveil products on the market in minus time. Among the most used methods in the design and explanation of the necessities, quality function deployment (QFD) and design for Six Sigma (DFSS) can be used. In the prototyping stage, it is probable to address the emergent technology of additive manufacturing. Today, 3D printing is employed as a quick prototyping technique. Nevertheless, the tangible task which industry is fronting is the adoption of these machines for large-scale production of components, which is now possible with new HP multi fusion. The goal of this paper is to illustrate the entire product development process taking advantage of the most modern models and technologies for the final realization of a case study that involves the design and prototyping of an innovative multifunctional fan (lamp, aroma diffuser, and fan) through the multi jet fusion of HP. To begin with, issues related to the DFSS, the QFD and their application to identify the fan requirements are explored. Once the requirements have been defined, the modern CAD design systems and the CAE systems for the validation of the case study will be analyzed and applied. Finally, HP’s multi jet fusion methodology and design rules for additive manufacturing will be analyzed in detail, trying to exploit all the positive aspects it offers.

scholarly journals Conceptual Aircraft Design Exploration through Functional Approach

2013 ◽  
Vol 446-447 ◽  
pp. 602-605
Author(s):  
Fairuz I. Romli
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Functional Space ◽  
Aircraft Design ◽  
Search Space ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Complex Products ◽  
Product Design Process

In today’s market, it is no longer sufficient to have better designs than the competition. In order to maximize the product’s market potential, it has to be rapidly produced and made available to the market. To reduce their time-to-market period, manufacturers need to shorten their design and development process. It becomes vital that the design architecture solution is derived faster, which can be handful for complex products like an aircraft with the current geometrical-based approaches due to the plethora of physical alternatives to be considered. On the other hand, the search for design architecture solution from functional requirements is theoretically more effective because functional space is comparatively smaller than physical search space. This allows the design efforts to be more focused and this subsequently saves time, efforts and resources. With this notion, there is a driving motivation to adapt functional approaches into the conceptual product design process in order to exploit some of its advertised benefits. In this paper, an example case study of an aircraft conceptual development is presented to highlight possible advantages of approaching architecture solutions from the functional space.

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