Managing the process of engineering change orders: the case of the climate control system in automobile development

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Engineering change orders (ECO) consume a substantial part of product development capacity that leads to higher development and tool costs. An in-depth field study of climate control system development in a new vehicle shows that ECO lead times become longer due to snowballing changes, scarce capacity and congestion, a complex approval process, setups and batching and organizational issues. Organizations can dramatically reduce their ECO lead times by avoiding unnecessary changes, minimizing the negative impacts of ECO, detecting ECO early and speeding up the ECO process.

Engineering Services, Production Management, ENGINEERING & MANAGEMENT SERVICES, Engineering For Manufacturing, Product Development Engineering, Methods, Factory orders, Production engineering, Lead time, Product engineering

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Managing the design innovationubrand marketing interface: resolving the tension between artistic creation and commercial imperatives

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The existence of differences between product designing and market positioning and process of managing these differences is discussed.

United States, Marketing procedures, Management dynamics, Market Research & Product Development, Evaluation, Marketing, Company marketing practices, Company business management, Time to market, Brand image, Market positioning

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