1st Edition

Accelerated Product Development Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance

By Clifford Fiore Copyright 2004
    224 Pages
    by Productivity Press

    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