Manufacturing and the development of innovative new products

Author

McDermott, C.

Author_Institution

Lally Sch. of Manage. & Technol., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY

fYear

1997

fDate

27-31 Jul 1997

Firstpage

477

Abstract

Summary form only given. Much needs to be learned about how manufacturing can foster innovation in environments of discontinuous innovation. This paper presents observations from an ongoing research project which examines current practices associated with the role of manufacturing in environments of radical innovation. Based on a battery of extensive, semi-structured interviews with product development team members in large US corporations, it explores topics such as the role of core competence, alliances (for production technology), manufacturing in the new product development process and the use of slack resources in the effective management of discontinuous innovation

Keywords

manufacture; product development; research and development management; USA; alliances; core competence; corporations; current practices; discontinuous innovation management; innovative product R&D; manufacturing; new product development process; product development team; production technology; radical innovation environments; research project; slack resources; Concurrent engineering; Costs; Environmental management; Innovation management; Manufacturing processes; Process design; Product development; Technological innovation; Technology management; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovation in Technology Management - The Key to Global Leadership. PICMET '97: Portland International Conference on Management and Technology

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3574-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.1997.653462

Filename

653462