The hidden professionals: product designers and their impact on design quality

Fleischer, Mitchell; Liker, Jeffrey Κ.

doi:10.1109/17.156559

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“…However, empirical evidence of the direct impact of intense manufacturing involve-Ž ment in NPD on NPM has been rather weak Rubenstein and Ginn, 1985;Ettlie and Reifeis, 1987;Lan-. gowitz, 1989;Fleischer and Liker, 1992 . The evidence from this study is also less conclusive than desired.…”

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Threats to new product manufacturability and the effects of development team integration processes

Swink

1999

J of Ops Management

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The thesis of this article is that new product manufacturability (NPM) is influenced by certain challenges inherent in new product development (NPD), and by efforts to integrate manufacturing and other functional concerns into the product design process. This research tests the direct and interacting effects of these influences via a survey of 91 completed NPD projects representing a variety of manufacturing industries. While most hypotheses were supported, the analysis also provides some surprising findings. Project complexity and increased levels of design outsourcing are associated with poorer NPM. Product newness and project acceleration are associated with better NPM. All the measured aspects of development team integration are associated with better NPM, including intense manufacturing involvement, a collaborative work environment, supplier influence on the product design, and strong management support in the project. Furthermore, certain integration variables exert moderating effects on relationships between technological uncertainty, product newness, design outsourcing, project acceleration and NPM. By exposing these relationships this research extends the theory of product development influences on manufacturability beyond a focus on engineering‐oriented approaches (e.g., design‐for‐manufacture). The results suggest that larger managerial issues must be addressed and that more contingency‐oriented research is needed to explore the benefits and limitations of development team integration processes.

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“…NPM is a multi-faceted construct. Prior researchers have identified several aspects of manufacturability performance including ease of production Ž ramp-up, product quality and product cost Langowitz, 1988;Fleischer and Liker, 1992; . and Dean, 1992 .…”

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Threats to new product manufacturability and the effects of development team integration processes

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1999

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“…The goal of solving design problems is to create innovations that will improve currently unsatisfactory situations through a series of inquiries (Rowland 1993). Design is the foundation for manufacturing, constructing, and developing objects or systems (Fleischer and Liker 1992;Goel and Pirolli 1992). The ability to design is clearly a necessary element for the advancement of human life, yet it is not a talent that comes easily to everyone.…”

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Three dimensions of reflective thinking in solving design problems: a conceptual model

Hong

Choi

2011

Education Tech Research Dev

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Design tasks are omnipresent in our everyday lives. Previous research shows that reflective thinking is one of the critical factors in solving design problems. Related research has attempted to capture designers' reflective thinking process. Yet a close inspection of designers' reflective thinking taking place during their design process demands further effort. To understand designer's reflective practice and to find better ways to promote novices' reflective thinking in solving real-world design problems, a comprehensive model was developed. This model identified three dimensions to guide the understanding of designers' reflective thinking during a design process: (1) the timing of reflection, indicating the points in the process where reflective thinking occurs, (2) the objects of reflection, showing the different types of objects that designers may reflect upon, and (3) the levels of reflection, referring to the different levels of designers' reflection. This model provides for meaningful aspects of reflective thinking to be situated in a design process, which can guide educators and instructional designers in developing appropriate learning environments for facilitating novice and practicing designers' reflective thinking. Moreover, the model can serve as a stepping stone for further research.

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“…If the designers themselves could have participated in deliberating upon the specification, deviations causing compatibility problems or manufacturability problems would probably have been reduced considerably. The important role of the designers has also been stressed by Fleischer and Liker (1992).…”

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Managing deliberations in product development—relating organization to process

Lundqvist

1994

Int. J. Hum. Factors Manuf.

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An analytical model of the product development process is derived from macro‐organizational and sociotechnical theory. The nonlinear and nonroutine process of product development is linked with organizational structure through the concept of deliberations. Deliberations contain the value‐adding process of uncertainty and equivocality reduction and can be more or less intrusive upon the environment. The focus of the empirical study has been on the application of the model as well as illustration of how the needs of the process are satisfied by organizational structure. Two development projects, one of which was successful, one of which was not, were compared in a case study of a manufacturer of larger customer‐adapted vehicles. The deliberations in the two projects were distinguishable by their degree of intrusiveness and ability to reduce equivocality. Large performance potentials in man‐hours could be revealed in both projects through the deliberation analysis. The managerial implication of the study is that greater recognition of what constitutes the process, among product development participants, should allow considerably increased performance. © 1994 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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The hidden professionals: product designers and their impact on design quality

Cited by 44 publications

References 9 publications

Threats to new product manufacturability and the effects of development team integration processes

Threats to new product manufacturability and the effects of development team integration processes

Three dimensions of reflective thinking in solving design problems: a conceptual model

Managing deliberations in product development—relating organization to process

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