Author/Authors :
Shojaeefard, M.H Professor - Mechanical Engineering Department , Manteghi, M Associate Professor - Malek-e-Ashtar University , Hakimollahi, M Ph.D. Student Automotive Engineering Department Iran University of Science and Technology
Abstract :
New product development (NPD) is described in the literature as the transformation of a market
opportunity into a product available for sale. In the automotive industry, within the context of
ISO/TS16949:2002 (the automotive quality management system international standard), these related to
the product realization process (PRP) which consists of Three main phases such as planning,
Implementation and sales, and five sub-phases called “Planning”, “Product Design”, “Process Design and
Development”, “Product and Process Verification and Validation”, and “Production”. These phases could
be done concurrently and have correlated activities.
There has been a wide range of working in new product development but in automotive section no
contributes has been done before. The paper proposes a contribution between the new product development
performance factors of a same project in a developed country and developing country. It shows the
differences of employee and systems ways of thinking in two above mentioned categories. The main
factors were extracted from literatures which are Goal clarity; Process formalization, Process Concurrency,
Iteration, Learning, Team Leadership, Team Experience, Team Dedication, Internal Integration, External
integration, Empowerment and Architecture. Having differences of people and systems thinking of new
product development process of automotive engineering in two different working stations will be helpful in
developing a complete model for performance measurement of a new product development in automotive
industry. The questionnaires were made to analyze the value of each factor via employee view and system
view and distribute in two different bases. The differences are illustrated in the paper.