BU385 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Remanufacturing, Quality Function Deployment, Mass Customization
Document Summary
Product design determining the form and funcion of the product. Reverse engineering dismantling a compeitor"s product to discover what it is composed of and how the components work, searching for own-product improvements. Research and development lab scienists and engineers involved in creaive work on a systemaic basis to increase knowledge directed toward product and process innovaion. Life cycle incubaion, growth, maturity, saturaion and decline. Design improvements create a more reliable and less costly product. In decline, companies atempt to prolong the useful life of a product by improving its reliability, reducing costs of producing it, or redesigning it. Standardizaion extent to which there is absence of variety in a part or product. Mass customizaion producing basically standardized goods or services but incorporaing some degree of customizaion. Delayed difereniaion producing, but not quite compleing, a product unil customer preferences are known. Modular design parts are grouped into modules that are easily replaced or interchanged.
