Product development schedules

Ethical Issue This case raises a noteworthy engineering-related ethical issue that has heretofore been neglected. The issue arose partly because a member of management, viz., the firm s CEO and CTO, set an unrealistic product development schedule for a team of engineers. The posture adopted by project team members in response to the imposition of such a schedule can have, and in the present case did have, harmfiil repercussions for a number of team members and for some of those close to them. The repercussions stemmed from the upstream acquiescence of the engineer team members in the imposed schedule. 

A management-imposed, compressed, and unrealistic new-product-development schedule. 

In the past decade, the molding industry has seen a steady rise in the use of CAE and 3D mesh modeling because this capability has been made more user-friendly. As CAE analysis is broadly used to minimize the cost and time in mold making, and product development period becomes shorter, time for CAE analysis becomes important to meet with product development schedule. Since smaller mesh size is used for the variations in the thickness direction, 3D model becomes to require large computation time. So that many of studies to shorten the number of trials have been tried, and we have focused on gate locations. 

In the race to be the first to market a drug product, or in the midst of quality or supply issues, it is not uncommon for a distributor to receive phone calls on a Friday afternoon asking for a Monday delivery of excipients, because many excipient users do not necessarily follow a Monday through Friday, 9 00 a.m. to 5 00 p.m. schedule. This is especially true of product development groups in small, privately owned companies. It is not uncommon for formulation development to continue into the weekend. It has already been noted that small volume shipments are more difficult than large volume ones, and, further, arranging for these materials to be available on short notice can certainly compound the challenge. 

There are as yet no FDA-approved vaccines to prevent botulism. An investigational pentavalent botuliniun toxoid (PBT) product, developed at Fort Detrick, is available for persons at risk for botulism (i.e. laboratory workers, warfighters). While determined to be safe and immunogenic, PBT is not useful or recommended for post-exposure prophylaxis. Antitoxin titers do not develop until a month after the third dose in the vaccine schedule. PBT is reserved for employees at high risk for BoNT exposure but not the general population. Several factors limit the usefrdness of PBT as a vaccine for inoculating the general population. 

A meeting has been scheduled between the head of product development and the research staff to discuss the results of the various studies under way on the new additive. Tom and Joan present their findings, which basically show that there is little conclusive evidence of increased cancer or any other kind of risk resulting directly from the new additive, pending further study. 

By examining the development schedule, private sector business can determine the areas where they can compete and a time schedule for the introduction of new products. With the establishment of timetables and goals, the private sector can develop the supporting equipment. The private... 

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Capacity planning for the product-development process involves proper quantity and time allocation of coworkers, application system capacities, and other partial tasks of tui individual process (Golm 1996). Therefore, the goed of capacity planning is to ensure the on-schedule processing of the entire process and the uniform utilization of resources. 

The difference between the two situations is that the compression of the product development cycle acquiesced in by the engineers in the Newton MessagePad case victimized some of the software engineers themselves and their family members, whereas in the Pinto case the victims were those who drove the unnecessarily risky vehicles and were in accidents caused by ruptured fuel tanks that were allegedly inadequately tested due to lacocca s demand to get the car to market by his deadline. Acceptance by engineers of imposed schedules that are compressed to the point of being unrealistic can pose a risk to consumer/user safety as well as to producer well-being. 

In addition, mass customization can also improve inventory and supply chain management efficiency. As mass customization is a make-to-order process, usually products are only made when the purchase order is placed. Thus, the shift from made-to-stock to made-to-order can significantly improve the production and supply scheduling and reduce the inventory cost and the risks of investment in materials and product development that will not encounter the preference of consumers. Furthermore, mass customization can be conducted online in some cases, so that many providers even sell shoes completely online without any physical stores, such as Zappos. This strategy can further reduce the operation and rental costs by online direct channel sales and increase the profit margin rate (Tseng et al. 2003). Even for those providers still with physical stores, they no longer have to show a full inventory of selection in all stores. 

Schedule (when ) of SAV QA activities coupled to the schedule of SAV work product development and SAV lifecycle process transition criteria. 

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