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| The selection, definition, and design of products |
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| product-by-value analysis |
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| A list of products, in descending order of their individual dollar contribution to the firm, as well as the total dollar contribution of the product. |
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| Quality function deployment (QFD) |
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| A process for determining customer requirements (customer "wants") and translating them into the attributes (the "hows") that each function area can understand and act on. |
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| A part of the quality function deployment process that utilizes a planning matrix to relate customer "wants" to "how" the firm is going to meet those "wants". |
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| Product development teams |
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| Teams charged with moving from market requirements for a product to achieving product to achieving product success |
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| Use of cross-functional teams in product design and preproduction manufacturing |
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| Manufacturability and value engineering |
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| Activities that help improve product's design, production, maintainability, and use. |
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| A design that can be produced to requirements even with unfavorable conditions in the production process |
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| A design in which parts or components of a product are subdivided into modules that are easily interchanged or replaced. |
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| Computer-aided design (CAD) |
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| Interactive use of a computer to develop and document a product |
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| Design for manufacture and assembly (DFMA) |
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| Software that allows designers to look at the effect of design on manufacturing of the product. |
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| Standard for the exchange of product data (STEP) |
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| A standard that provides a format allowing the electronic transmission of three-dimensional data |
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| Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) |
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| The use of information technology to control machinery |
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| An extension of CAD that builds prototypes and small lots. |
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| A visual form of communication in which images substitute for reality and typically allow the user to respond interactively. |
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| A review of successful products that takes place during the production process. |
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| Competition based on time; rapidly developing products and moving them to market. |
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| Firms establishing joint ownership to pursue new products or markets |
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| Cooperative agreements that allow firms to remain independent, but pursue strategies consistent with their individual missions. |
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| A drawing that shows the dimensions, tolerances, materials, and finishes of a component. |
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| A list of the hierarchy of components, their description, and the quantity of each required to make one unit of a product. |
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| The choice between producing a component of a service and purchasing it from an outside source. |
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| A product and component coding system that specifies the size, shape, and type of processing; it allows similar products to be grouped. |
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| An exploded view of the product |
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| A graphic means of identifying how components flow into sub-assemblies and final products |
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| A listing of the operations necessary to produce a component with the material specified in the bill of material. |
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| An instruction to make a given quantity of a particular item. |
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| Engineering change notice (ECN) |
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| A correction or modification of an engineering drawing or bill of material |
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| A system by which a product's planned and changing components are accurately identified. |
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| Product life-cycle management (PLM) |
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| Software programs that tie together many phases of product design and manufacture. |
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| Process-chain-network (PCN) analysis |
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| Analysis that focuses on the ways in which processes can be designed to optimize interaction between firms and their customers. |
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| A sequence of steps that accomplishes an identifiable purpose (of providing value to process participants) |
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