Assembly sequence planning is an integral part of a new product and process development. However, currently there are very few available approaches to evaluate the impact of assembly sequences on product quality. This paper develops a methodology for Quality-driven Sequence Planning (QISP) with consideration to product dimensional quality based on the following three steps: (1) Sequence generat...

Selecting the most appropriate new product(s) is regarded as a critical decision impacting the economic success of manufacturing companies. In the new product development process, there are different evaluation attributes typically considered by a group of experts, which often can be structured in a multiple level hierarchy. The purpose of this paper is to provide a new hybrid hierarchical mult...

We model concept testing in new product development as a search for the most profitable solution to a design problem. When allocating resources, developers must balance the cost of testing multiple designs against the potential profits that may result. We propose extreme-value theory as a mathematical abstraction of the concept-testing process. We investigate the trade-off between the benefits ...

Acknowledgements: We thank the two anonymous reviewers as well as Arina Soukhoroukova, Agnieszka Wolk and the participants of the " DIMACS Workshop on Markets as Predictive Devices (Information Markets) " at Rutgers University for their valuable feedback. of new products & innovation management. His research interests include technology and innovation management, new product development and ent...

The process of selecting requirements for a release of a software product is challenging as the decision-making is based on uncertain predictions of issues such as market value and development cost. This paper presents a method aimed at supporting software product development organisations in the identification of process improvement proposals to increase requirements selection quality. The met...

Current practices in the industry are moving towards the market-driven development of software intensive products compared to customer-specific system development. Consequently, product management is faced with several challenges that have to be addressed as a part of the market-driven requirements engineering process. One of the important challenges is how to select the right mix of requiremen...

This paper provides evidence that offshore patent laws influence global firms’ innovation decisions. Within a simple model of multinational production, we find that a novel consequence of imitation risk is that firms innovate selectively, directing investments in product development toward relatively short-lived varieties that are difficult to imitate prior to obsolescence. A key implication of...

The strength of the emotional feeling implicit in the commonly used phrase “selecting the next killer app” powerfully summarizes the importance of new product idea selection. People in Silicon Valley often use this phrase to describe their enthusiastic pursuits of new successful software application ideas. Selecting new product ideas is important not only to high-tech firms but also to many oth...

Due to shorter product lifecycles and a rising complexity of the products more and more enterprises consider using the Digital Factory. The Digital Factory is an IT system capable of digitally planning, controlling and optimizing all resources and activities related to a product which are performed beginning with product development and ending in the order processing – prior to the start of the...

Manufacturing process innovation (MPI), an organization-wide effort involving radical redesign of manufacturing related processes and systems to achieve dramatic improvements in critical manufacturing performance measures, encompasses various kinds of activities. Some MPI initiatives focus on technological innovation and others may intend to change work processes and ganizations adopt new techn...