Product development performance has become a critical-to-success aspect in this age of globalization and international competition. Platform based strategy could be used to enhance and support the efficiency and effectiveness of product development performance, as this paper suggests. This paper explores the impact of platform-based strategy on product development flexibility, product developme...

Under a turbulently changing and highly competitive market, discovery of a chance is always significant for many companies to launch new and creative products or services in time, fulfilling consumers demands for occupying more market share. Many available methods on market research for designing new products are more focused on the analysis process, so that product designers run short of ideas...

Although in many organisations projects are run according to a standard procedure many projects run out of time and budget, don’t achieve the required quality standards, or don’t even finish at all. This is especially the case for large and complex projects with large differences between the parties involved. Although there is much knowledge and experience on what the causes are of sub-optimal ...

Co-development processes are an instrument used in several industries to gain a competitive advantage and to reduce development costs. An overview of the literature is given with the identification of a gap in current literature: the patterns of supplier participation in new product development. The main goal of this article is to seek possible ways of controlling the supplier integration proce...

We combine detailed survey data on firms’ organizational practices with information technology (IT) investment measures to test the hypothesis that in addition to decentralization, external focus is another important determinant of returns to IT investment. We argue that IT-intensive firms characterized by decentralization are able to more effectively process and respond to information from the...

Case study on improving quality management of W company’s new product development project includes the analysis of the current situation within the quality management of W company’s new product development project (current situation and identify existing problems), improvement study (analysis the cause of existing problems and design the improvement scheme) and implementation. Through monitorin...

For over fifteen years the Stanford University Center for Design Research has been concerned with the formal study of engineering product development teams at work in academic and corporate settings. This chapter describes one such effort, the implementation of team-based, distance learnining techniques in a Stanford University School of Engineering course, “Team-Based DesignDevelopment with Co...

We consider opportunity-based age replacement using nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) for the time to failure of a future unit. Based on n observed failure times, NPI provides lower and upper bounds for the survival function for the time to failure Xn+1 of a future unit, which lead to upper and lower cost functions, respectively, for opportunitybased age replacement based on the renewal ...

Abstract In this paper, the qualification of a production GaN process platform is discussed. Details of the process repeatability, reliability and qualification methodologies are covered in detail. Additionally, concurrent product development efforts are also described. Reliability results include three-temperature DC testing that resulted in an activation energy of 2.0eV and DCHTOL testing dem...