Performance measurement for product design and development in a manufacturing environment

Article Abstract:

Companies can ensure business survival through the effective management and measurement of the product development process, as evidenced by reduced time to market, higher quality and lower costs. Performance measurement allows companies to determine whether they are making effective use of their product design and development activities. However, data gathered from two questionnaires sent to academics and industrialists involved in measuring design and development performance reveal that the consistent use of performance measurement in the design and development process remains limited in manufacturing organizations both in the UK and worldwide.

Product Development, Management, Industrial design

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Timing the control point under the exponential stationary process

Article Abstract:

The advancement of the process in semiautomated production processes must be controlled by the decision-maker in discrete points. However, control must be carried out as rarely as possible andonly when a pregiven probability of achieving production output no less than that required is ensured. The next control point is determined through formulaswhich present the speed of the production process at each moment as an esponential distribution function of a stationary process with a certain autocorrelation function.

Methods, Production control

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Work in process: performance measures

Article Abstract:

A simulation is used to demonstrate the inaccuracy of conventional measures of manufacturing performance. The simulation shows that manufacturing cycle efficiency (MCE) greatly overestimates actual situations. MCE is inaccurate due to its collective treatment of an entire lot as being in process during the entire operation period when only a single item is actually worked on. A better measurement would be obtained by dividing the processing time by the total manufacturing lead time of each part.

Work measurement

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