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 1 : 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 2 : Launching Lean Product Development
Chapter 4 : Conducting Baseline Assessment
Chapter 5 : A Baseline Assessment Case Study
Part 3 : 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 4 : 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 5 : 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
