With many companies implementing continuous improvement policy to enhance all company operations, everybody is knocking on design engineering's door because 'coordinated up-front design engineering plays a central role in enhancing the performance of re-engineered or improved manufacturing process. Today many manufacturing strategies embrace the goals of reducing "time to development", "time to ship", "defects per million," and "cost" every year. The articulated associated policies create pressures on various manufacturing divisions, design engineering, and marketing and product planning to respond by continuous examinations of their operations for potential improvements or re-engineering. The consequence is production of the design work-load that some times far exceeds existing design capacity. This clearly emerges as a management problem that has been viewed in this paper through systems thinking lens.

This is the whole item.

Date created

• 1996

Type

• Document

Processing Activity

• Processing documentation available at: https://wiki.albany.edu/display/SCA/Processing+Ingested+Digital+Files

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
  Contact Us for questions or additional rights.

ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8

Scope and Contents

Part of

ca4810593b2703dcaa087957ab13af91

Scope and Contents

Part of

227da936724c4223c5a64764d3922694

Scope and Contents

Collection

System Dynamic Society Records

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the University Archives