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Anticipating Potential Misuse
A
safe product is a good product. Designers and manufacturers have
a responsibility to anticipate the misuse of their products, ensuring
the chance of failure and/or injury is minimized. Indeed, a creative
and thorough process to anticipate misuse is an important part of
any new product development.
The Malco Design and Deliver Group focuses on three primary things>
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 Webinar:
Re-Thinking the Product Development Funnel
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009 •
11:00 PST / 1:00 CST / 2:00 EST
Price: $25 PDMA members, $50 nonmembers
Abstract
The
icon of a "funnel" has been used by product developers
for many years to describe the New Product Development process.
However, while there are many similarities between all of the various
funnels in common use, recent experience has shown that some things
ought to happen in a different order than the way in which they
are commonly shown. This web cast will review some of the funnels
popular in the New Product Development arena, and will then describe
what he believes to be a more realistic and up-to-date funnel.
Register
online.
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Design
for Manufacturability & Concurrent Engineering:
How
to Design for Low Cost, Design in High Quality, Design for Lean
Manufacture, and Design Quickly for Fast Production
"This
2008 book shows how to design products for all aspects of manufacturability
and use multifunctional product development teams and Concurrent
Engineering principles to achieve:
- DESIGN
FOR LOW COST. The book presents many effective methodologies
to design low-cost products by concurrently engineering products
in multifunctional teams that will simplify concepts, optimize
architecture, optimize the use of modules and off-the-shelf parts,
have pre-selected vendors help design custom parts, understand
and avoid previous problems, and then thoroughly design for manufacturability
for quick launches without expensive change orders.
- DESIGN
IN HIGH QUALITY. Chapter 10 shows how to design quality and
reliability into the product with poka-yoke and 50 design guidelines.
- DESIGN
FOR LEAN MANUFACTURE. The book shows how to standardize parts
and design products for lean production, JIT, build-to-order,
and mass customization.
- DESIGN
QUICKLY FOR FAST PRODUCTION. Chapter 3 shows how thorough
up-front work is the key to quickly developing products, avoiding
changes, and achieving fast ramps."
Read
more about this book.
Contact
Us
If
you’d like to know more about the Malco Design & Deliver
Group, or any of these topics, please don’t hesitate to contact
us.
Contact David
Clark at David.Clark@MalcoD2group.com
or 866-204-0148.
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