Accelerated Product Development: Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance
By Clifford Fiore

Index

A

Accountability, 80
Accounting method, 104
ACME Sandwich Company, 13-18, 15
Activity-based costing, 104-105
Alpha/beta testing, 38n

B

Backlog
and discovery teams, 70
Balancing work allocation, 183
Baseline event
discovery team in, 50-54
five blocks in, 50, 51
follow-up for, 59-60
overview, 47
preliminary steps, 48-49
at Rotorworld, 69
structure of, 50
Batch production, 14-18
Benchmark value of six sigma, 167
Bicycle design, 129-130
Bill of material (BOM), 139
Black & Decker, 29
Blueprint drawing package, 122
Blueprint drawing revision process, 54, 72
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, 4
Bottleneck
and change order document, 26
denned, 80
and discovery teams, 52
key factors, 83
multitasking and, 34-36
for process step, 82-83
response to, 82
and standard work, 182-183
Bottoms-up workload management, 89
Brainstorming, 7
Breakthrough products, 130
Budgets, 70
Business model selection, 18
Business value, 42

C

Capacity
increasing, 82
management, 70
Capacity management, 85-86
Case study
DFSS implementation process, 178-182
electric switch production, 31-34
flow, 13-18
Cause-and-effect
analysis, 178-179
diagrams, 7, 166
Cell, 184-187
Cellular design approach, 162
Central processing unit (CPU), 120
Change order, 24-26
Checklist, 112
Checks and balances, 107
Clutter, 35-36, 39, 52
Co-location of tasks, 39, 42, 184-187
Commercial jet engine design, 123-124
Commodity parts and consumables, 101-103
Commonality, 161
Communication
facilitation, 42
in workload management, 89
Company escapes, 172
Company parts portfolio, 122-123
Company XYZ, 136-137, 146, 148, 150
Competion dates, 37
Competitive advantage, 169-170
Component design compliance matrix, 125, 128-129
Computer-aided design (CAD), 184
Concurrent engineering, 6, 149-150
Consumables, 101-103
Continuous improvement
baseline assessments...
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