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Articles on this site: Half the Time to Stable Production Build-to-Order & Mass Customization Rationalizing
Product Lines by outsourcing or eliminating high-demand, low-profit
products to DFM Training; how to arrange Links to Articles at www.HalfCostProducts.com/articles.htmDesigning products for Lean Production, Build-to-Order, and Mass Customization Cost Reduction; How Not to Lower Cost: Why trying to "reduce" cost after design doesn't work Low-Bidding, which may appear to lower one cost, but raises others and distracts from real cost reduction
Outsourcing for cost, the
hidden costs of outsourcing and its detrimental effects
Off-Shore
Manufacture; how it thwarts 6 of 8 cost reduction strategies On-demand Lean Production Quality: The Cost of Quality Quality: How to Design for Quality
Measuring Total Cost and its importance to decision making, pricing, and
real cost reduction, Article links to www.build-to-order-consulting.com/articles.htm Achieving Growth through BTO & Mass Customization article Spontaneous Supply Chain article to pull parts and materials on-demand Automatic Resupply Techniques article: kanban and breadtruck End of the Line for Mass Production; No Time for Batches and Queues article, a witty and hard-hitting editorial on the demise of Mass Production Link to "The Build-to-Order Future," article by Dr. Anderson on the futurist web-site: The Next Twenty Years: http://www.tnty.com/newsletter/futures/lifestyle2.html Link to "Tearing Down the Walls with Vendor/Partnerships" at Fabricating & Metalworking magazine (January 2008) For more information call or e-mail: Dr. David M. Anderson, P.E., fASME, CMC copyright © 2007 by David M. Anderson Book-length web-site on Half Cost Products: www.HalfCostProducts.com [DFM Consulting] [DFM Seminars] [DFM Books] [Credentials] [Clients] [Site Map] [DFM article] [Half Cost Products site] [Standardization article] [Mass Customization article] [BTO article] [Rationalization article] |