Accelerated product development : combining lean and Six sigma for peak performance / Clifford Fiore.

The product development value proposition
Why focus on product development?
The relationship of product development and product cost
The evolution of continuous improvement
Lean and six sigma
Lean fundamentals
The concept of flow
Maximizing customer value
Eliminating waste
The 5s approach for lean implementation
Defining value streams
Lean principles
Opportunities for process improvement
Applying lean principles to product development
Waste in the product development process
Typical problems in product development
The legend of the "golden" project
Guiding principles for product development
Launching lean product development
Conducting a baseline assessment
Getting started
Conducting a baseline event
Follow-up baseline assessments for continuous improvement
A baseline assessment case study
Company background
Creating a platform for change
Rotorworld's baseline assessment
Discovery team data
The discovery team's analysis
Building the house of product development
Stabilizing the product development process
Resource and workload management
The need for resource and workload management
Strategies for improving resource and workload management
Implementing resource and workload management
Implementing a reuse strategy
The impact of a new part on a company
Identifying preferred parts
The product portfolio
Activity-based costing
Building the infrastructure for product development
The infrastructure for product development
Project management
Design assurance
Streamlining the product development process
Selecting the appropriate design strategy
The design strategies
Strategic option #1: modular design
Strategic option #2 : platform design
Strategic option #3 : custom design
Software tools for product development
The system architecture
Database design
Measuring the level of reuse
Integrating the supply chain in the product development process
A strategy for improving the supply chain
Procuring part families vs. individual parts
Implementing a value-engineering program
Quality in the product development process
Instituting a manufacturing process control program
What is manufacturing process control?
Implementing an MPC program
The role of key characteristics
Implementing design for six sigma
The many meanings of sigma
The importance of design for six sigma
The elements of design for six sigma
Implementing design for six sigma
Using process capability models
Case study example
Flow and cell design for product development
Measuring takt time
Quantifying standard work
Cell design for product development.