A Review of Software Solutions for the Management of New Product Development and Product Family Planning

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany M. Byron ◽  
Steven B. Shooter
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Product Family ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Document Management ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Product Families ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Management Project

The field of new product development has a number of difficult challenges with which it must contend: shortened production time, greater market share demand, and geographically dispersed teams. Several software systems have been developed to ease these challenges. A representative cross-section of work in the fields of document management, project management, product lifecycle management, and conceptual and family design is examined, including past and current academic work and commercially available software. The scope and features of these projects are examined and compared on a software taxonomy. The potential application of these systems to product families is discussed throughout.

Adoption of product lifecycle management in new product development: a case study of automotive organisation

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ganesh Tanpure ◽  
Vinod Yadav ◽  
Rakesh Jain ◽  
Gunjan Soni
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Manufacturing Organization ◽  
Lifecycle Management

PurposeThe Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system has found varieties of deployments in various domains of product-based industries. Current study aims to provide a framework for the adoption of PLM systems in manufacturing organizations to meet the actual requirements of industries.Design/methodology/approachFirst, a systematic review of extant literature was performed, and further, the case study approach is opted to study the process of New Product Development (NPD) in a manufacturing organization. Triangulation methodology was adopted wherein the interview results, actual observations, and authorized documentations were used to validate the result and provide conclusions.FindingsA conceptual framework and implementation architecture for PLM is derived. The complete ecosystem for digital footprint is mapped for New Product Development (NPD) activities.Practical implicationsThe study could be helpful for Techno-Functional Managers. For individuals with only functional/technical knowledge, additional training might be required to adopt the framework in actual practices.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to the existing literature by providing a framework and demonstrating the feasibility of implementation through the case study.

The Architecture for Solving the Cross-Domain Keywords During New Product Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 605-607 ◽  
pp. 497-500
Author(s):  
Yung Chung Tsao ◽  
Kevin Chihcheng Hsu ◽  
Yin Te Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Domain Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Case Based Reasoning ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Cross Domain

The team-members for the new product development (NPD) are recruited from different departments in the enterprises. So the team-members in the design teams range from novices to experts in NPD. The juniors developer in the design project team lack more successful product-design experiences as their seniority and skills. Therefore, those developers always query and search their problems with the limited terminology via the information systems or websites. So the results of the querying and searching always are limited to the similar domain-knowledge. The new product development (NPD) involves multidisciplinary knowledge such as accumulated experiences of knowledge-workers, and different technical and legal documents. The information systems (IS) facilitating the NPD processes often include document-based knowledge management system (KMS), Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems etc. With these different systems, novices at various stages of NPD processes often have problems to use the exact and suitable keywords to query the problems from those information systems. The study proposes a case-based reasoning to construct a hierarchical knowledge model to record knowledge-workers’ experiences and to store the information of experiences and the recommendation of experts. The aim of the study is that the proposed architecture can query the information scattered in different information systems by using their individual-domain terminology and retrieve the better fitted results of the querying.

scholarly journals Dual Business Relationships, Opportunity Knowledge, and New Product Development: A Study on Returnee Young Ventures

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wensong Bai ◽  
Martin Johanson ◽  
Oscar Martín Martín
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Dual Relationships ◽  
Business Relationships ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Research Opportunity

The effects on innovation of the dual embeddedness of returnee young ventures (RYVs) in both domestic and international networks of relationships and knowledge contexts are important for value creation, growth, and success of these firms and embody a unique research opportunity. Drawing on a framework combining a business relationship perspective and the knowledge-based view, the authors propose that RYVs take advantage of business relationships and opportunity knowledge from both international and domestic markets to nurture their innovation. They test their model on a sample of 200 RYVs in China. The findings reveal that business relationships are essential for acquiring knowledge about technological and business opportunities, though only international opportunity knowledge and domestic business relationships positively influence new product development. In addition, the interaction between international and domestic business relationships constrains firms’ capacity for obtaining international opportunity knowledge. This study offers insights into how the trade-offs between dual relationships and subsequently sourced knowledge contribute to new product development in emerging markets, and it extends the discussion on the paradox view of business relationships with geographically dispersed actors.

Effect of product lifecycle management on new product development performances: Evidence from the food industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 184-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Pinna ◽  
Francesco Galati ◽  
Monica Rossi ◽  
Clint Saidy ◽  
Ramy Harik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Product Lifecycle ◽  
Lifecycle Management

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: THE ROLE OF IT-ENABLED PLM SYSTEMS FOR RELATIONAL, STRUCTURAL, AND NPD PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 1950067 ◽  
Author(s):  
FIONA MARIA SCHWEITZER ◽  
MATTHIAS HANDRICH ◽  
SVEN HEIDENREICH
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
New Product ◽  
Product Lifecycle Management ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Npd Performance

Companies increasingly use digital product lifecycle management (PLM) systems with information technology (IT)-based workflow and product data management functions to assist new product development (NPD). However, empirical evidence on whether and how such digital transformation in PLM contributes to NPD performance is scarce. The objective of this paper is to fill this void. We use Assemblage Theory to develop a theoretical model that links the digital transformation in PLM to performance and focus on the extent to which IT-based data gathering and exchange occur in NPD. We carry out a quantitative survey among 216 key informants of manufacturing companies and use structural equation modelling on the resultant data to provide empirical evidence for our hypothesis. We find that the level of digital transformation in PLM positively influences structural and relational performance and, in effect, also enhances NPD performance. Our findings also show that organisational complexity positively moderates these relationships. For managers, our findings demonstrate the value of digital transformation for managing the NPD process, notably in larger, more complex organisations.

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