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Designing for Lean & BTO
In concurrent engineering, multifunctional product development teams design products for the production environment or concurrently design products and new processes. When companies embark on flexible or cellular manufacturing strategies, concurrent engineering is crucial to the success of lean production, build-to-order (BTO), and mass customization.
Products not concurrently engineered for flexible environments may impede implementations, diminish the payback, or even thwart success entirely. The product portfolio may have too many unrelated products that lack any synergy and, thus, too many different parts and processes. Even within a focused product portfolio, there may be a needless and crippling proliferation ...
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