In this book, consultants Sekine and Arai point out the difficulties of transforming designers from isolated, multi-project employees to team-based production-style workers. They then show how the latest production improvement tools such as U-cell design, one-piece flow, and waste elimination methods will bring out the maximum productivity from designers.
Managers of design departments face many obstacles when trying to make changes within their department. How do you identify waste in the design process? How can bottlenecks be eliminated? How can repetition be reduced to an absolute minimum? When should a designer work from start to finish on one project and when should you employ parallel design — where the elements of a project are broken up and designed by many designers? This book offers you hands-on training for dramatically increasing the productivity of your design department. Filled with exercises, charts, Q&A, and a case study showing a company cutting its design and development time in half, it provides you the opportunity to examine how actual changes were achieved. This is not a theoretical discussion, but offers you the information, data, and tools you need to immediately start implementing improvement.
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Introduction
Part 1 : Cutting Design Lead Times in Half
Chapter 1 : Waste in The Design Process
Chapter 2 : How to Begin Cutting Design Lead Times in Half
Chapter 3 : Ten Rules for Improving The Design Process
Chapter 4 : The Steps in Cutting Design Lead Times in Half
Chapter 5 : Concurrent Engineering
Chapter 6 : Handling RC Requests in The Factor, Not in The Design Department
Chapter 7 : Parallel Design
Part 2 : Doubling Productivity in The Design Department
Chapter 8 : Standardization of Parts
Chapter 9 : Techniques for Compiled Design
Chapter 10 : Designer Training to Eliminate Design Changes
Chapter 11 : Drawing Retrieval System : Eliminating The Need to Prepare New Drawings
Chapter 12 : Reducing The Labor Content of Design
Chapter 13 : Measuring Design Productivity
Chapter 14 : The Design Section Manager
Chapter 15 : Cutting Design Lead Times of New-Product Development in Half
Chapter 16 : The Design Process for The Zero Fighter Plane
Chapter 17 : The TPS Design Improvement Gymnasium
Part 3 : Work Sheets for Use in Design Process Improvement
Chapter 18 : Work Sheets for Use in Design Process Improvement
About The Authors
Index
