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The Product Development
and Management Association Useful web site containing large reference list of books on product development, most on very specific aspects. |
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the Time to Market
Group A UK consultancy working on product development, lead time reduction and so on. A number of related articles in their "download" section. |
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Product Development Forum Sponsored by DRM Associates (a consultancy), a source of information on product development based on current best practices. Contains more than 100 pages of articles on product development. |
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John Stark
Associates SRI Consulting Management consultancies specialising in improving their clients' product development process. Contains a number of articles and book references on aspects of the process. |
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Bob Barker's web
site Bob Barker's research page. Interesting information on time to market aspects and published papers on the subject. |
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Engineering - general |
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Eureka
magazine Published by Findlay Publishing. Contains a host of useful design and development data. |
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Design
Selector Global Also from Findlays Publishing, a comprehensive index to selecting materials and components. |
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| If you're not familiar with this area, the following disseminate knowledge on world best practice in manufacturing. This is good background to understanding the relationship with product development. | |||
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the Association for Manufacturing Excellence This site is run by the US Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME), that runs programmes for its members to help their companies implement the best currnet manufacturing practice. |
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the High
Performance Manufacturing Consortium Similar aims to AME above. |
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Kaizen
Institute Founded in 1985 by Masaaki Imai, a global management consultancy that helps companies "implement improvement tools and strategies". Contains a list of reading materials. |
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The Lean Enterprise
Institute Instigated by the authors of The Machine that Changed the World and Lean Thinking, the site aims at helping companies to implement the best current manufacturing practice, based on zero stock practice. |
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Productivity
Incorporated Very useful website. Productivity Press has the rights to publish many of the books on production by Japanese authorities such as Shigeo Shingo. Books such as A study of the Toyota Production System and Non Stock Production are classics. No chief executive can afford not to have read, understood and put them into practice. A few but not many books on product development. |
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Resources for
Innovative Manufacturing Excellence Interesting website of manufacturing data and links. |
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TBM Consulting Group Good data source on implementing the Toyota Production System. The site contains a number of useful articles. |
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| Dr C B Mynott, Managing Director, TICS Limited |
