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Visteon: Knowledge at the
Engineer’s Fingertips
For the past four years, Visteon’s development group in Chelmsford, UK,
has been part of a European Union project, named EU-FP7, to understand
and apply Lean Product Development. rough that program, Visteon
has leveraged the expertise of the research teams at Craneld University’s
Lean Product and Process Development Group. e group’s director, Dr.
Ahmed Al-Ashaab, gave me a warm and enthusiastic introduction to Paul
Ewers, the Continuous Improvement Manager for the Global Electronics
Product Group.
Visteon was spun o from Ford Motor Company nearly 12 years ago
and now develops components ...