Accelerated product development : combining lean and Six sigma for peak performance / Clifford Fiore.

The product development value proposition -- Why focus on product development? -- The relationship of product development and product cost -- The evolution of continuous improvement -- Lean and Six sigma -- Lean fundamentals -- The concept of flow -- Maximizing customer value -- Eliminating waste -- The 5S approach for lean implementation -- Defining value streams -- Lean principles -- Opportunities for process improvement -- Applying lean principles to product development -- Waste in the product development process -- Typical problems in product development -- The legend of the "golden" project -- Guiding principles for product development -- Launching lean product development -- Conducting a baseline assessment -- Getting started -- Conducting a baseline event -- Follow-up baseline assessments for continuous improvement -- A baseline assessment case study -- Company background -- Creating a platform for change -- Rotorworld's baseline assessment -- Discovery team data -- The discovery team's analysis -- Building the house of product development -- Stabilizing the product development process -- Resource and workload management -- The need for resource and workload management -- Strategies for improving resource and workload management -- Implementing resource and workload management -- Implementing a reuse strategy -- The impact of a new part on a company -- Identifying preferred parts -- The product portfolio -- Activity-based costing -- Building the infrastructure for product development -- The infrastructure for product development -- Project management -- Design assurance -- Streamlining the product development process -- Selecting the appropriate design strategy -- The design strategies -- Strategic option : modular design -- Strategic option : platform design -- Strategic option : custom design -- Software tools for product development -- The system architecture -- Database design -- Measuring the level of reuse -- Integrating the supply chain in the product development process -- A strategy for improving the supply chain -- Procuring part families vs. individual parts -- Implementing a value-engineering program -- Quality in the product development process -- Instituting a manufacturing process control program -- What is manufacturing process control? -- Implementing an MPC program -- The role of key characteristics -- Implementing design for six sigma -- The many meanings of sigma -- The importance of design for six sigma -- The elements of design for six sigma -- Implementing design for six sigma -- Using process capability models -- Case study example -- Flow and cell design for product development -- Measuring takt time -- Quantifying standard work -- Cell design for product development.