Effective Supplier Involvement in Product Development Projects

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padmavathi K. Pakala ◽  
V. Allada
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Design Structure Matrix ◽  
Lead Times ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Supplier Involvement ◽  
Design Defects ◽  
The Right

In today's scenario, many product development projects run the risk of being over budget and/or run past the scheduled deadlines. A major part of this can be attributed to the lack of effective and realistic product planning. We use the thesis that consideration of appropriate suppliers at the right time in a product development project can reduce wastes like waiting for parts to become available, unnecessary design iterations, design defects and poor design, and mitigate risks related to technology and enterprise capability. In the present paper, we present a methodology for effective supplier involvement in a product development project by blending the Design Structure Matrix (DSM) and the PERT/CPM techniques and considering supplier lead times and component interfaces of a given product architecture. We discuss the various options of supplier consolidation, postponement or early involvement of suppliers, and their effects on the product development project cost and schedule. We will demonstrate the working of the proposed methodology using a case example.

Task Decomposition and Grouping for Customer Collaboration in Product Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Xuefeng Zhang ◽  
Yu Yang ◽  
Beifang Bao
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Design Structure Matrix ◽  
Adaptive Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Structural Development ◽  
Task Decomposition ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
Correlation Degree ◽  
Product Development Project

AbstractDecomposing product development project into various tasks and grouping them are important activities in product development. Many scholars devoted their efforts to solving this problem and proposed some useful methods. However, the research work of task decomposition and grouping for customer collaboration in product development is still lacking. Therefore, this study first decomposes product development tasks and analyzes its executability. Then, by using an integrated numerical design structure matrix and adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA) approach, tasks are divided into different groups, tasks in the same group have high correlation degree, and tasks in the different groups have low correlation degree. To illustrate the process of task decomposition and grouping methods proposed in this paper, a mobile phone structural development case is applied. Moreover, standard generic algorithm (SGA) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) are used to compare with AGA to verify the effectiveness of AGA.

The Superweight Project Team and Manager

1998 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 309-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christer Karlsson ◽  
Rajesh Nellore
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Project Team ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Strategic Control ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
A Company

This paper presents a model for managing product development projects in which new strategic platforms that are of paramount importance to a company are developed. The model incorporales a superweight manager who manages a "live or die" strategic programme across different projects. From this study, an additional model emerges besides the four generic types of product development, project organisations and leadership presented by Clark and Wheelwright (1993a). The analysis was conducted by screening data into five categories, namely, strategic control of the project, resource allocation, organisational structure, targets and leadership. The data were collected through interviews and validated by triangulation and internal seminars.

INFLUENCES ON ORGANISATIONAL SLACK IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 375-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDERS RICHTNÉR ◽  
PÄR ÅHLSTRÖM
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Case Research ◽  
Customer Interaction ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Project Deliverables ◽  
The Relationship

Programs to decrease cost and to increase operational efficiency may reduce a company's ability to innovate, by reducing organisational slack. Previous research on the relationship between organisational slack and innovation has been at level of the firm and has neglected the processes underlying the relationship, which takes place at the level of product development projects. In this paper, we identify organisational slack and its influences at the level of the product development project. Through exploratory case research in high-velocity industries, two influences on organisational slack are identified: customer interaction and top management control. We also identify two categories of organisational slack at the product development project level: project deliverables and human competences. The two influencing variables and the two categories of organisational slack all have an effect on the knowledge creation taking place inside the projects and therefore ultimately innovation.

Managing the complexity of new product development project from the perspectives of customer needs and entropy

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Yang ◽  
Chen Shan ◽  
Bin Jiang ◽  
Na Yang ◽  
Tao Yao
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
New Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Customer Needs ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Function Modules ◽  
The Right ◽  
Clustering Criterion

To successfully develop a complex product, a firm must answer two critical questions: how to “develop the right product” and how to “develop the product right.” Motivated by the real practice of Xiaomi’s new product development (NPD) projects, this article responds to these calls in the following ways. To design the right product, using an enhanced PageRank algorithm to investigate customer needs, NPD managers can select appropriate function modules of the new product to meet customers’ demand. To develop the new product in the right way, NPD managers should optimize the NPD organization. This article applies the multi-domain matrix (MDM) to identify the technical coordination dependency strength among different teams and then to measure the NPD organization’s complexity according to its entropy. By proposing the External Entropy of Cluster (EEC) and Internal Entropy of Cluster (IEC), we develop an entropy-based two-stage clustering criterion of design structure matrix ( DSM) to optimize the NPD organization. The first-stage clustering criterion maximizes the added average dependency strength of DSM, and the second-stage clustering criterion minimizes the Weighted Total Entropy, including the IEC and EEC. An industrial example is provided to illustrate the proposed model. The results indicate that the clustered DSM can reduce the organization’s complexity.

scholarly journals A model for minimizing feedback-length between activities of a project

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheida Shahabadi ◽  
◽  
Jafar Gheidar-Kheljani ◽  
Seyyed Hasan Ghodsypour ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Pareto Front ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Design Structure Matrix ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Percentage Increase ◽  
Economic Justification ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
The Cost

Proper sequencing between activities has always been one of the major issues in project management. Sometimes it is needed to redo some activities especially in product development projects. It is assumed that one of the reasons for reworking some activities and backward can be due to the incompleteness of the information needed when doing them, and also assumed that having complete information requires cost. In this article, a network of activities is considered, which may require a duplication of the process due to the interdependence of information between them. In this paper, using the design structure matrix concept and interdependence between activities, a two-purpose model for determining the proper sequence of activities have been provided to minimize the length of feedback and reduce the cost of completing the information using matrix concept. To accurately solve this model, the combination Lexicographic and Augmented Epsilon Constraint is used to obtain the Pareto National Front, which shows an increase in the cost of reducing the degree of dependence between activities for reducing the feedback length between activities. From the Pareto front, the best answer was chosen in a way that, based on the economic justification of the project, the percentage of reduction in the feedback length would be higher than the percentage increase.

scholarly journals Product development from ecodesign point of view in practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-113
Author(s):  
László Soltész ◽  
László Kamondi ◽  
László Berényi
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Product Development ◽  
New Product ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Environmental Footprint ◽  
Product Development Project ◽  
Sustainable Product Development ◽  
Sustainable Product ◽  
The Right

During the development of new product designers must care about thousand of things to finally deliver a successful product to market. There is high pressure from manufacturing to using easy and usable technologies, quality team asking design robustness, management wants to see the product in the right time and on perfect cost level both form project product cost viewpoints. Nowadays, a responsible company and product development team must care and put high focus for an environmentally friendly solution and for sustainable product development. These things have to work together as a system. This paper presents a product development project in a household equipment producer company and company efforts to reduce environmental footprint.

Trust and Places - Case Interorganizational Product Development Project

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvi Nenonen ◽  
Minna Andersson ◽  
Mervi Huhtelin ◽  
Juha-Matti Junnonen ◽  
Arja-Liisa Kaasinen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Product Development Project

Analysis of Engineering Change Based on Product Development Network

2011 ◽  
Vol 314-316 ◽  
pp. 1607-1611
Author(s):  
Zhong Wei Gong ◽  
Hai Cheng Yang ◽  
Rong Mo ◽  
Tao Chen
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Design Structure Matrix ◽  
Complex Activity ◽  
Engineering Change ◽  
Structure Matrix ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Design Structure ◽  
Development Network ◽  
Motorcycle Engine

Engineering change is an important and complex activity for manufacturing enterprises. In order to improve the efficiency of engineering change, designers should pay different attentions to different nodes of product development network. In that case, a method of classifying the nodes was proposed. First, we proposed a method to cluster the nodes based on design structure matrix; then, we analyzed the indexes for evaluating the importance of nodes and studied the method of classifying the nodes of product development network; finally, the experiment of managing a type of motorcycle engine was employed to validate our method and it showed the correctness of the proposed method.

Research on DSM for Simulation of Concurrent Product Development Process

2008 ◽  
Vol 44-46 ◽  
pp. 595-600
Author(s):  
Xiao Ming Qian ◽  
Dun Bing Tang
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Resource Competition ◽  
Time Limit ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Design Structure Matrix ◽  
Simulation Algorithm ◽  
Resource Model ◽  
Task Duration ◽  
Design Structure

In this paper a simulation algorithm for concurrent product development process (CPDP) is presented based on Design Structure Matrix (DSM). An aggregate DSM is used to model the CPDP. To simulate the influence on the process of the time limit and the resource competition, the schedule and resource model are established. A method is also advanced to handle task delay. At last a case is used to validate the simulation algorithm and to show the influence on the process of task duration and resource.

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