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Informationen zum Autor STANLEY I. WEISS, PhD, has served as a Consulting Professor at Stanford University since 2000. He earned his PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Illinois and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. Dr. Weiss developed much of his research and practice in the fields of product design and manufacturing at MIT and Stanford and during thirty years in industry and government. He is a past chairman and current advisory board member at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering. Klappentext A thorough treatment of product and systems development in terms of value to all stakeholdersProduct and Systems Development compiles more than twenty years of research and practice from a value perspective, from vision and marketing to design, manufacturing, delivery, operations, and maintenance. It defines stakeholder value and identifies specific stakeholders in the product and system development process; covers best practices in development; and examines systems engineering, current industry views, and the life cycle of a value stream.Featuring appendices written by professionals in the field on topics such as Design Structure Matrices, Lean Enablers for systems engineering, and MDAO and simulations, this indispensable guide:* Explains why stakeholders' values can hold the key to fulfillment or defeat of the developer's vision* Emphasizes the succession of value-contributing practices and tools that form a framework for development success* Integrates the technical, productivity, and customer/end-user elements in product and system development* Uses more than 100 tables and figures to illustrate the above processes, as well as corollary elements of risk, failure analysis, and fault-tolerant design* Includes numerous case studies and links to online materialProduct and Systems Development is an excellent coursebook for senior and graduate students in aerospace, mechanical, civil, electrical, and material engineering, as well as management science and engineering. It is also a useful reference for practicing engineers in a variety of technology-based industries. Zusammenfassung This book offers a thorough treatment of system and product development, where technical, productivity, and end user elements come together to generate value for stakeholders. Compiling over twenty years of research, the book applies a value approach to design, manufacturing, delivery, operations, and maintenance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Preview of Best Practices 1 Resource and Note 3 Review Checklist 4 2 Stakeholder Values 5 2.1. Value and Stakeholder Identities 6 2.2. The Stakeholder Connection 7 Resources and Notes 11 Review Checklist 11 3 Role of Systems Engineering 13 3.1. Definition of a System 13 3.2. Industry Views 16 3.3. Stakeholders and Systems 17 3.4. System Value Stream 18 Resources and Notes 19 Review Checklist 19 4 Stakeholder Value Drivers 21 4.1. Value Analysis in a Strategic Framework 22 4.2. The QFD Stakeholder Values Matrix Process 22 4.3. QFD Process Summary 24 Resources and Notes 27 Review Checklist 27 5 Value-Driven Requirements Development 29 5.1. Establishing the Parameters 29 5.2. Translating Values to Requirements 32 5.3. Changing Requirements 34 5.4. Quantifying Requirements 35 5.5. Requirements Process Summary 37 Resources and Notes 39 Review Checklist 40 6 Functional Analysis 41 6.1. Functional Flows 41 6.2. Functional Block Diagrams 43 Resources and Notes 46 Review Checklist 46 7 Interface Definition and Management 47 7.1. Interface Complexity 48
