Nowadays consumers are expecting the launch of new products with lower prices and shorter development times. One key strategy for companies to achieve this challenge is to implement a lean product development process. Aligned to the lean thinking implementation, many companies have defmed a process architecture. Such process architecture enables teams working on projects to understand the value added activities, defme roles and identifY the interdependencies among the different tasks to be carir ed out when developing a new product. There are various approaches to develop a process architecture. Thus, research was carried out within the LeanPPD project to understand the approaches followed by different organizations to develop their process architecture. A cross-industry sample of 18 companies from Switzerland, Italy, UK, Gennany, USA and Mexico was interviewed. This paper summarizes the results highlighting the companies preferred timeframes, frameworks, organizational structures, tools and resources. To conclude, based on the findings a model is proposed to sumam rize a set of identified best practices which are recommended when developing and implementing a process architecture.

Understanding the Approaches to Create a Process Architecture for Lean Thinking

TERZI, SERGIO;ROSSI, MONICA
2012-01-01

Abstract

Nowadays consumers are expecting the launch of new products with lower prices and shorter development times. One key strategy for companies to achieve this challenge is to implement a lean product development process. Aligned to the lean thinking implementation, many companies have defmed a process architecture. Such process architecture enables teams working on projects to understand the value added activities, defme roles and identifY the interdependencies among the different tasks to be carir ed out when developing a new product. There are various approaches to develop a process architecture. Thus, research was carried out within the LeanPPD project to understand the approaches followed by different organizations to develop their process architecture. A cross-industry sample of 18 companies from Switzerland, Italy, UK, Gennany, USA and Mexico was interviewed. This paper summarizes the results highlighting the companies preferred timeframes, frameworks, organizational structures, tools and resources. To conclude, based on the findings a model is proposed to sumam rize a set of identified best practices which are recommended when developing and implementing a process architecture.
2012
18th International ICE Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE), 2012
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