A. A New Product Development process is one, which is an integration of technical and commercial factors in an industry for product development and product modification. The NPD process consist of six phases that are
1. Ideation
2. Concept development
3. Build business case
4. Product development
5. Market testing
6. Market Launch
Concept development is an NPD process in which the product idea is done in verbal or pictorial form. In this step the concept, ideas and technologies are explained to customers. A group of users are selected and the product concepts, design and prototypes are explained to them and they are asked to give the feedback about the new product. If the customer feedback is positive then business analysis is done.
When it comes to Black & Decker in the early stages they were working on competitive opportunities. And they explained the product concepts, design and prototypes to the customers. And the feedbacks from the customers are grips were generally bulky and uncomfortable. Power capacity was another drawback as the users need more power, more torque. The product features and controls were awkward and confusing.
The Team members then planned to redesign the product to meet the customer requirements first they worked on redesigning the more compact and comfortable grip. The existing ones had fat handles because they are enclosed with two rechargeable batteries. The team wanted a grip that would hold one battery rather than two without forfeiting energy. After four months of exhaustive work a solution emerged and it is ergonomically good and the handle delivered the energy needed. Then they worked with the motor design to get more power and torque at any given voltage. The suppliers said there are no such motor...
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...reate a more compact and ergonomically comfortable grip. Without shortening the battery life, the team wanted a handle that can hold one battery. After months of exhaustive designing and testing the solution emerged. It was strong and for further refinement the grip was cushioned. Motor design was the second major problem faced all the major competitors purchased motors from two global suppliers. The Compact Power team specified motor requirements, which produce higher torque at any given voltage that is significantly higher than the existing one but the suppliers said there is no products to offer. Compact Power boldly decided to manufacture its own motor. Financial analysis determined it is an extra expense and also it’s a big question whether the engineers would meet the design requirements. In the end the team outperformed and presented a high performance motor.
The need for prosthetics has emerged over decades due to humans losing extremities whether through wars, for health reasons or simply because they were not born with them. Prosthetics are meant to provide the user with an artificial extremity that would perform to the same level as the original but this does not always necessarily occur especially when discusses hands. The issues with these devices is that they are not able to execute the caliber of control that user expect from a hand along with the price. This paper when discuss the parts of hand that assist in intricate actions and how it is difficult to translates these biological factors into mechanical parts. Understanding the biological versus mechanical units will allow for solutions that will better align with the heart of the problem. Then this paper will analyze the options that have been emerging over time to address the issue of lack of control to determine which method, if any, would be useful to implement.
...etes and companies are constantly seeking ways to include technology to better their equipment. Again, the development of computers, industrial equipment, measuring devices, testing equipment, and smarter engineers were all contributing factors to the evolution of the baseball bat.
These advantages, however, do not balance the many short falls of the belt drive design.
Many by now know, the EV that redefined the genre was released to rave reviews. Consumer Reports said that it performed better than any other auto on their test track. Because of all the weight from the low mounted motors it was
DMC's potential loss of significant market share in the near and long term, of oil well pumping motors if DMC doesn't respond quickly and effectively to the expected change in motor specs for the industry.
However, this vision generates an overlapping problem between the marketing department and the product development department. The marketing department, among other duties, is responsible for the identification of new opportunities and also to assure the development of new products. Unless these activities are extremely well coordinated with the product development department, there will be misalignment in the strategy of the EPD. Ultimately, this misalignment will affect a third department, i.e. the manufacturing department, since it is directly involved in the product development process.
This new saw was effective, but was not very specialized. It would react differently under different conditions. Eventually more complex designs were discovered. These new designs allowed for the precision cutting of hardwood, softwood, with the grain, against the grain, and even raked out the unwanted sawdust. These saws differed in the layout of the teeth. Instead of the jawbone patter the teeth were placed in a "left-right-angled" pattern, to rake the sawdust, and were placed at different distances depending on the substance being cut.
Product development is a strategy of growth that involves new product in market or goods and services. In this presentation of Product Development to determine the practice of Lexington Medical Center, Columbia South Carolina. Lexington Medical Center is a teaching hospital and also have a residency program. LMC is a 414 bed medical complex, 600 physicians, and 5,900 employees. The product development management system I have chosen is Levemir Flex-touch insulin pen.
Design thinking process has eight generation stages: observation or analysis, framework, imperative or facts, solutions or alternatives, alternative evaluation and concept selection, implementation, construction, and post occupancy evaluation.
While health care is still servicing wooden hands designed in the World War I era, many patients are unsatisfied with the unnatural movements, aesthetics, weight and lack of motion in these outdated prosthetics. Colonel Geoffrey Ling, a program manager for the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) who is overseeing a project to improve prosthetics says, "The best hand prosthetic one can get is a hook, right out of Peter Pan. It's heavy, it's clumsy and cosmetically, it's just horrid."
Actually the idea of creating a device that could be worn by man and greatly improve his physical qualities, appeared in the first half of the last century. However, until that time, it was just another notion of science fiction writers. Development of practicable system was started only in the late fifties. General Electric Company under the auspices of the U.S. military launched a project called Hardiman. Terms of Reference were unbelievable: the exoskeleton from GE should have let a person to operate with loads up to a thousand pounds (680 kilograms). The military expected to use the new technique to facilitate the work of gunsmiths in the Air Force. In addition, “in line" were nuclear scientists, builders and representatives of the mass of other industries. But even ten years after the start of the program, engineers from "General Electric" failed to put all their dreams into metal.
A Product Life Cycle can vary due to various marketplace product or service offerings. Maturity length of time may vary because the end consumer was not prepared to accept the new offerings. Faster maturity breakthroughs can be a direct result of certain production service breakthroughs that usually get accepted quite quickly. Decline of a product or service can be the result of a customer interest and then disinterest. When a product or service does not extend its growth, it can be because the product or service has lost its usefulness. In conclusion, The Product Life Cycle can be used as a marketers planning tool to create portfolio planning, strategy formations, as well as future forecasting. One must never to marketplace, and competition. (Fortenberry, J. L.,
Samsung used the “new product development” strategy. According to Kotler/Armstrong new product development is defined as the development of original products, product improvements, product modification, and new brand through the firm’s own product. Samsung also unveiled a new strategy, which is called “new management,” a top- to-bottom strategy for the entire company. Lee Kung Hee, CEO, hired young designers to produce new ideas that could get the company in the direction that he wanted it. New designs .Sleek, bold and beautiful products, so that they could target high-end users to the company. Samsung also was testing new product concepts.
Setting goals for Process, Cooperation of the Process, Combination of the ideas, Evaluation, Testing ideas of Innovation Process, Execution of Implementing Innovation Process ,Estimation of lifecycle.
The main challenges in the manufacturing companies are in the following stage of product development.