Plan Future Products

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Design and Development of Biological, Chemical, Food and Pharmaceutical Products J. A. Wesselingh, 

The great number of ideas will usually be sustaining. These are for improvements or extensions of existing products. Note that the ideas do not have to concern the product 

Many firms use product platforms. The idea is most obvious for companies producing devices. You may have noticed that a company like HP (Hewlett Packard) has new printer models every few months. They manage this by having a basic technology that is modified each time to suit new customers. Car manufacturers use similar tricks. Modifications (add-ons) can be made much more quickly and cheaply than a new platform - and such renewals are important for marketing. 

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Plan Future Products. Look ahead at what the firm is going to be doing after this product. Consider product improvements but also new business. 

Use the data to derive the business, product development, and quality plans for current and future products and services. 

It is of interest in a reservoir simulation study to compute future production levels of the history matched reservoir under alternative depletion plans. In addition, the sensitivity of the anticipated performance to different reservoir descriptions is also evaluated. Such studies contribute towards assessing the risk associated with a particular depletion plan. 

Future capital costs considered in the objective function rely on future capital values - in this scope future inventory values. The planning of future inventory values in all future periods and in all network locations is a complex task. As described in the requirements, future inventory value is determined by the future product values of the products on stock. These product values change, if the included material costs of the product change, which is regularly the case due to volatile raw material prices. The task now is to calculate the future inventory value throughout the value chain network and product steps considering the raw material price forecast for the planning horizon. The problem is illustrated in fig. 57. 

Finally, future inventory planning is integrated in the overall optimization process as preprocessing phase. Alternatively, it can be run independently before the optimization to ensure usage of the most recent future product values for calculating capital costs in the optimization. 

Siemens Westinghouse is planning a number of tests on power plants that are prototypes of future products. All systems employ the tubular SOFC concept and most are combined with gas turbines in a hybrid configuration. Capacities of these systems are 250 kilowatts atmospheric, 300 kilowatt class hybrid, and 1 megawatt class hybrid. They are to operate at various sites in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Some of them are discussed below. 

After sampling and harvesting the Luer-Locks must be wiped down with 70% ethanol to prevent infection being introduced to the production module see Note 20). Periodical measurement of cell density, viability, and antibody production during the course of the production run will help in the planning of future production runs. 

These considerations will influence the choices made as the industry plans its products in a shifting market and policy context. Not all factors are equally important at a given point in time, and so their relative emphasis also determines the choices made. Any option for future vehicle fuel design, including a default slow evolution of existing technology, must compete in order to command the substantial investments entailed in both product development and infrastructure provision. 

It is emphasized that the foregoing discussion applies to skyward, (i.e., well-rinsed) surfaces, and not to those which are primarily the sites of evaporation of liquid from adjacent areas nor to those more completely sheltered from incoming liquid water. At surface areas where substantial amounts of reaction products are retained in the stone surface, mechanical mechanisms of damage are thought to apply (3 ). Effects on sheltered, partially sheltered, and vertical surface areas are subjects of planned future work. Studies of the possible synergism of nitrogen dioxide effects with those of sulfur dioxide dry deposition also are being planned. 

Each product should be evaluated to determine whether it should be nugrated to the platform. This evaluation should also consider future products and designs. The evaluation has two key parts associated with it. First, a business case needs to be developed to detemune what are the specific expected benefits in terms of cost, interval, capacity improvements vs. the cost of implementation of the platform. Second, there needs to be an assessment to establish the technical feasibility of manufacturing the product using the platform. The technical feasibility must be done from both the design and process viewpoints. This will require that both process and design characterization have been completed. Once both benefits and technical feasibility have been demonstrated, specific experimental and qualification plans can be developed and implemented to nugrate products onto the platform. 

Removal of a chemical from the HPV Ust required evidence that the chemical was no longer being produced by any company or group of companies at a total aggregate volume of one milUon pounds or greater and the chemical was not likely to become an HPV chemical in the future. The claim had to be verifiable based on business plans, past production patterns, and credible trends in the market. 

The future product mix (with more products) and the corresponding production capacities can also be planned in the beginning itself while setting up the industry. 

It is required for the planning of product mix (which is necessary for design of process units for the present and to ascertain feasibility of the plant in the future). This should have been done with due diligence. 

Sales forecasting, which projects point-of-sale consumer demand, is one of the collaboration tasks associated with this activity. The retailer task here is Point of Sale (POS) Forecasting and the manufacturer task is Market Data Analysis. The other collaboration task is Order Planning/Forecasting which uses factors, such as transit lead times, sales forecast, and inventory positions to determine future product ordering and requirements for delivery. The associated retailer task is Replenishment Planning, and Demand Planning is the associated manufacturer task. 

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