This book explains what needs to be done in order to successfully complete the complex task of developing products. It describes how you set up and run each project according to its particular needs and covers planning your profitability, cutting out waste, creating a market winner and how to control risk. It also contains some practical tools and techniques that help to cut time and cost. This book is essential reading for managers, project managers, engineers and developers in industry, and a handy primer for graduate and postgraduate engineering students.
Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Wealth Creation in the Economy: Product Development Influences Wealth Creation
3. Your Company's Fortunes: How Product Development Affects Your Company's Fortunes
4. The Product Development Process: A Summary of What Makes for the Fastest, Lowest Cost Product Development
5. Organising Your Company to Increase Profit
6. Product Costing and Company Costs: Product Development Sets Your Company's Costs
7. Product Strategy: The Starting Point - Your Product Strategy
8. Planning Your Product Programme: The Platform and Variant Master Schedule
9. The Seven Key Project Phases
10. Running and Managing the Programme: How to Set Up and Manage a Project
11. Tools and Techniques
• 12. Bibliography
Index