Title :
Manufacturing and the development of innovative new products
Author_Institution :
Lally Sch. of Manage. & Technol., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.1997.653462
