World Class Design to Manufacture: Volume 2 Issue 3
Table of contents
Teamworking and concurrent engineering – a success story
Rob KinnaShares the experiences and successes of adopting concurrentengineering. Highlights the criticality of team selection, building andempowerment. Suggests that the concept of a team…
In via recta celeriter (in the right way quickly)
Martyn J. RaynorProvides a short history of the biggest collaborative researchproject on rapid prototyping in Europe – Computer‐Aided RapidPrototyping (CARP) – which is concerned with the concept…
Engineering quality improvement programme
Alan Combes, Christopher Connolly, Ed HenshallHighlights the need for engineers who design vehicles to worksimultaneously with engineers who manufacture these vehicles in order toimprove product quality. Discusses the…
Design: a missing link in manufacturing strategy
Charles WainwrightAt present manufacturing strategy research is focused on theinteraction between the manufacturing and marketing functions to theexclusion of product design. As product design aims…
Benchmarking innovation for best practice
Mohamed ZairiReport on a project on benchmarking innovating activity in a numberof progressive UK – and European‐based organizations. Aims toidentify best practice in innovation and its…
An engineering designer′s view of virtual engineering and rapid prototyping
Tony MedlThe design process is an uncertain activity which the designer mustlearn to handle. This is done, to a limited extent, by adopting standardprocedures and problem containment…
Best practices survey 1994: product definition
Investigates the fourth annual survey of practices in productdevelopment by Product Development Consulting, Inc. and the ManagementRoundtable. Focuses on best practices in product…