While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

The product design process has undergone a significant transformation with the availability of supercomputing power at traditional workstation prices. With over 100 threads available to an application ...

Process development is the exercise of creating new and improved manufacturing methods, optimizing them in terms of time and financial efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance and product ...

Currently 29% of U.S. manufacturing companies are outsourcing part of their new product development process, with 41% reporting that they are evaluating outsourcing options within the next 12-24 ...

There has been an increased reversal toward reshoring—bringing back more control to parts manufacturing, assembly, and distribution with local geographic areas closer to the corporation’s home ...

Each new product hitting the market has one thing in common: it started with an idea. From this notion, the company designed a pattern, developed a prototype (likely more than one), ran a field test ...

A product development strategy provides a framework for creating new products or improving the performance, cost or quality of existing products. The strategy helps a company achieve business goals, ...

Perfecting microbial manufacturing processes means taming its greatest asset: speed. This rapid process for creating ...

The company plans to use the facility to upgrade its existing line of shredders and granulators by increasing their capacity, ...

Many aspects of Apple’s product development process have long been shrouded in mystery. The process is discussed in a new book Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired–and Secretive–Company Really ...