September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
829 pages
35h 34m
English
book
Operations Management: Creating Value Along the Supply Chain, 7th Edition
by Roberta S. Russell, Bernard W. Taylor III
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Chapter 4. Product Design
In this chapter, you will learn about . . .
The Design Process
Rapid Prototyping and Concurrent Design
Technology in Design
Design Quality Reviews
Design for Environment
Quality Function Deployment
Design for Robustness
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OM Tools Software
Internet Exercises
Online Practice Quizzes
Lecture Slides in PowerPoint
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Company and Resource Weblinks
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Product Design AT MARS
Mars takes a cross-functional approach to product development in which people from R&D, plant operations, packaging, marketing, and other departments all play key and formalized roles. One difference in recent years is the inclusion of the extended supply chain. Supply chain partners make a good "bridge" between functional units because they encompass external as well as internal suppliers of ingredients, equipment, packaging, and other components of a product launch, as well as the logistics involved in bringing them all together.
To begin with, Mars has a network of global R&D centers from the United States to the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The R&D heads meet in person for a week-long planning session each year and follow up with quarterly updates and monthly conference calls. A global Wiki maintains an online dialog with Mars employees, and a vendors assurance group gathers information ...
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