Product Development Engineering Manager with extensive mechanical engineering design and program management background; skilled at developing and managing programs from the concept through manufacturing to product launch; experienced at working with technical marketing information to define design requirements and to create proposals for commercial customers and government grants. Experienced in part classification fundamentals and systems.
Part proliferation is a reoccurring problem in today’s industry. With a numerous number of parts, companies do indeed have difficulties in controlling product data quality and efficiencies. Here are the areas where Part Proliferation is overlooked,...
Duplicates and near duplicates add costs throughout a products lifecycle, so it sensible to standardize on parts and avoid creating redundant or duplicate parts. Identifying duplicates and near duplicates is a cost effective exercise...
The costs of new and duplicate parts are dispersed over multiple departments and across products’ lifecycles, so it is difficult to identify who should be responsible for preventing part proliferation.
A closer look at a product’s lifecycle and the...
Companies can leverage classification to reduce design costs. The scientific community regularly uses classification to understand relations among items, with the plant and animal...
