Author: Bhavya Mangla
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APQP: New Product Development: Process Design (Phase 3)
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APQP: New Product Development: Process Design (Phase 3) “Good design is like a refrigerator—when it works, no one notices, but when it doesn’t, its sure stinks.” –Irene Au Introduction When a voyager decided to travel, the first thing is to have a map (design) and the next important thing is to plan ‘how to reach…
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New Product Development: Product Design (APQP-Phase 2)
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New Product Development: Product Design (APQP-Phase 2) “Our role is to imagine products that don’t exist and guide them to life.” – Apple designer Christopher Stringer Introduction We design our lives in the way we think is right and implement it. A carpenter first visualizes the final product and then create its design and later…
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APQP: New Product Development: Planning (Phase 1)
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APQP: New Product Development: Planning (Phase 1) “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable” ―Dwight D Eisenhower Introduction A ship sailing in the sea will reach nowhere without planning. Imagine the fate of an Aeroplan which is flying without proper planning. What will be the…
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New Product Development Process
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New Product Development Process “You have got to start with the customer experience and work back towards the technology- not the other way around”: Steve Jobs Introduction ‘Necessity is the mother of invention.’ For mathematical calculation, zero (0) was invented and used by Aryabhata (499 BC). The curiosity of man to fly like birds resulted…
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Maintenance Process: Challenges & Resolution
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Maintenance Process: Challenges & Resolution “Obstacles are challenges for the winner and excuses are for the losers”: Marijane Meaker After conquering the Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953, Hillary said ‘it is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.’ The challenges are always more internal than external. As…