1999
DOI: 10.1109/70.795793
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Lead time modeling and acceleration of product design and development

Abstract: Abstract-New product development is an important business process and constitutes a major contributor to the business excellence of any manufacturing firm. Designing an optimized new product development process is an important problem in itself and is of significant practical and research interest. Lead time is an important performance metric for a product development organization. In this paper, we develop lead time models for product development organizations that involve multiple, concurrent projects with c… Show more

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“…Such systems are met in several different contexts, such as manufacturing [2,7,8,14,16,20,21], network routing [13], communications [9], water distribution [15], logistics and traffic control [18]. Hence, their control is of relevant economic interest.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such systems are met in several different contexts, such as manufacturing [2,7,8,14,16,20,21], network routing [13], communications [9], water distribution [15], logistics and traffic control [18]. Hence, their control is of relevant economic interest.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adler et al (1995) argue that their model can accordingly predict cycle time more accurately than single-project approaches and, through what-if analysis, can provide useful insight into resourcing and congestion effects. Narahari et al (1999) build on this work, arguing that similar insights can be gained through a simplified model in which each project is represented as a single job that flows through a network of processing stations, each representing a project stage. The stations are organised in a reentrant line to simulate loop-backs between stages.…”
Section: Queueing Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although it does not represent complex concurrency within each project, this model can be used to assess project processing times and indicates how they can be improved through insights from queueing theory. In particular Narahari et al (1999) recommend that workers prioritise jobs using policies designed to reduce variability, and that companies throttle the number of projects they take on concurrently.…”
Section: Queueing Modelsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Problems of larger sizes with more than 100 activities were solved, however, solution qualities were hard to evaluate. In addition to optimization, heuristic procedures were developed by Ahn and Erenguc [2], Narahari et al [24], Yan and Wu [33], and Merkle et al [22]. These procedures are computationally efficient, however, results are often of questionable quality, and there is no good way to systematically improve the quality.…”
Section: A Motivationmentioning
confidence: 99%