TRAPPED ON THE WASTE NET: A METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND PRIORITIZING THE CAUSES OF A CORPORATION’S LOW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PERFORMANCE
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Pess
Series: DESIGN
Section: DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT
Page(s): 1641-1650
Abstract
This work describes a method for analyzing the Product Development Systems waste drivers and its causes. Although waste identification and elimination along the value chain has proven useful to PDS improvement, previous work focuses on the waste identification, rather than diagnosing the waste causes on a particular company. This work aims to fill this gap by proposing a method that determines the possible root causes to wastes on a project, and shows the expected wastes from the most common “problems in projects” faced by a particular enterprise.
Keywords: waste reduction, product development process improvement, lean product development