Modernizing Product Development Processes: Guide for Engineers

Product lifecycles have shortened due to competition, rapidly changing markets, emerging technology, and regulation. Modernizing Product Development Processes: Guide for Engineers provides a foundation to focus on giving engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators a guide to developing products with a new approach instead of a traditional product development cycle.

Using the fundamental pillars of this book, the authors demonstrate how to bridge the gap in today's product development cycle to improve "time to market" needs in a fast-paced environment. These pillars include:

-Learning from failures and doing

-Harnessing creativity (out-of-the-box thinking)

-Front loading (develop concepts early)

-Explore multiple possible solutions

-Technology/Manufacturing readiness level

-Modularity (integrate common solutions)

In addition, the authors prepare engineers to scale up production to meet customer demands in a dynamic environment by demonstrating how to establish strategies and road maps with a stage gate approach focused on harnessing creativity to build concepts/technologies in early phases.

In today's era of innovation, rapid technological growth, and high consumer demand, engineers must adapt and deliver products with reasonable, engineered solutions and this book shows them how.

Jon M. Quigley PMP (204278) CTFL is a principal and founding member of Value Transformation LLC, a product development and cost improvement organization. Jon has two master's degrees from the City University of Seattle, two globally recognized certifications, and received the Volvo-3P Technical Award in 2005, and the 2006 Volvo Technology Award. Jon has more than 30 years of product development and manufacturing experience. Jon has secured seven US patents and several international patents, and has authored or contributed to more than 15 books on product development and project management topics.

Amol Gulve M.E., PMP is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow, recognized in the field of mechanical engineering as an eminent engineer. Amol has a master's degree from the University of Detroit Mercy and has been working in the automotive and commercial heavy-duty truck industry for more than seventeen years. Amol was recently awarded the SAE Forest R. McFarland Award, and is also honored as a Fellow and a Chartered Engineer by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Amol has authored or contributed to several technical papers and is also actively engaged as an editorial manager and guest editor for international journals.