See article on
how to
implement Mass Customization in the April 2011 issue of Mechanical
Engineering, published by ASME Articles on this site:
Designing Low-Cost Products
New article
Design for Manufacturability
article
Designing in
Quality article New article
Saving Cost and
Time with Vendor/Partnerships New article
Reducing Cost
and Material Usage for Large Parts New article
Half the Time to
Stable Production article
Standardization
article
Mass Customization article
Build-to-Order & Mass
Customization article
Article
on Rationalizing
Product Lines by outsourcing or eliminating high-demand, low-profit
products to
immediately raise profits
and free valuable resources for more profitable endeavors in
product development,
quality, and process improvement
DFM Training;
how to arrange
How Seminars & Workshops Are
Customized for Practicality and Relevance New
article
Links to Articles at www.HalfCostProducts.com/articles.htm
Designing
products for Lean Production, Build-to-Order, and Mass Customization article
Article on Cost
Reduction; How Not to Lower Cost:
Article on Why trying
to "reduce" cost after design doesn't work
Low-Bidding article, which
may appear to lower one cost, but raises others and distracts from real
cost reduction
Outsourcing for cost
article, the
hidden costs of outsourcing and its detrimental effects
on real cost reduction efforts,
like teamwork
Off-Shore
Manufacture article; how it thwarts 6 of 8 cost reduction strategies
for an
illusion of cost reduction now
Mergers & Acquisitions
On-demand Lean Production
article
Quality:
The Cost of Quality
article
Supply
Chain Cost Reduction
Measuring Total Cost and its importance to decision making, pricing, and
real cost reduction,
by Doug
Hicks, CPA
Article links to
www.build-to-order-consulting.com/articles.htm
Recession_strategies article
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
Links to other Journal Articles:
Link to Ortho World article:
"Why Offshoring Manufacturing 'To Save Cost' Won’t, but Trying May Compromise
Product Development, Delivery and Quality"
Link to ASME's April 2011 "Mechanical Engineering" article:
"Mass
Customization’s Missing Link – Building the Products"
For more information call or e-mail:
Dr. David M. Anderson, P.E., fASME, CMC
Management Consultant
www.design4manufacturability.com
phone: 1-805-924-0100
fax: 1-805-924-0200
e-mail: anderson@build-to-order-consulting.com
copyright © 2011 by
David M. Anderson
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