1st Edition
Accelerated Product Development Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance
In Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance, Clifford Fiore provides the blueprint for implementing the key elements for improving the product development process. His innovative and powerful work represents the first book to couple the proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with the engineering processes of product development. His results, based on proven strategies and methodologies, enable companies to significantly reduce the time necessary to develop new products, dramatically reduce product cost, and improve product quality.
Part One: The Product Development Value Proposition | |
Chapter 1 | Why Focus on Product Development? |
Chapter 2 | Lean Fundamentals |
Chapter 3 | Applying Lean Principles to Product Development |
Part Two: Launching Lean Product Development | |
Chapter 4 | Conducting Baseline Assessment |
Chapter 5 | A Baseline Assessment Case Study |
Part Three: Stabilizing the Product Development Process | |
Chapter 6 | Resource and Workload Management |
Chapter 7 | Implementing a Reuse Strategy |
Chapter 8 | Building the Infrastructure for Product Development |
Part Four: Streamlining the Product Development Process | |
Chapter 9 | Selecting the Appropriate Design Strategy |
Chapter 10 | Software Tools for Product Development |
Chapter 11 | Integrating the Supply Chain in the Product Development Process |
Part Five: Quality in the Product Development Process | |
Chapter 12 | Instituting a Manufacturing Process Control Program |
Chapter 13 | Implementing Design for Six Sigma |
Chapter 14 | Flow and Cell Design for Product Development |
Conclusion | |
Appendix A | Glossary |
References |
Biography
Clifford Fiore
"The search is over! Cliff Fiore's Accelerated Product Development strategy represents a breakthrough application of the Lean Six Sigma tools to a most difficult and elusive problem. By characterizing and eliminating the forms of waste and variation in the current product development process, Cliff has simply and elegantly provided a roadmap to rapidly create cost effective, high quality, manufacturable products that maximize value to the customer while leveraging the capabilities of the supply chain. This book is required reading for everyone involved in the product development process."
Kurt Oswald, Managing Director, Beckett Advanced Technology Center, Six Sigma Black Belt, Le 10/24/04