New Product Development and Production Networks

Prof. Dr. U. Jürgens, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, is renown for his scientific work in fields like human resources, work organization and organization of production and development, especially for automotive industries. In this publication the authors from different countries discuss practical models of integration in development and production as realized in practice. Time-to-Market is the key for success, efficient integration of development and production necessary to reach the goal. Jürgens himself acts as a publication editor and creates a book reporting about the state of art in automotive and electronics industry. The publication is directed to scientists and is of interest to those practitioners, who have to develop the benchmarks for their own development and production.

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 : Restructuring Product Development and Production Networks: Introduction to the Book

Part I : The Challenge of Time to Market: Responses by Industries
Chapter 2 : Shortening Lead Time through Early Problem-solving A New Round of Capability-building Competition in the Auto Industry
Chapter 3 : The Machine Tool Industry: New Market Challenges and the Crisis of the Traditional German Pattern of Innovation
Chapter 4 : Turnkey Production Networks: The Organizational Delinking of Production from Innovation
Chapter 5 : Making Large Teams Work Like Small Teams: Product Development at Microsoft

Part II : Comparing National-specific Approaches in the Machine Tool, Automobile and PC Industries
Chapter 6 : Communication and Cooperation in the New Product and Process Development Networks - an International Comparison of Country- and Industry-specific Patterns
Chapter 7 : Reorganizing Process Chains in the German and American Machine Tool Industry
Chapter 8 : The Italian Machine Tool Industry Towards Product Development Networks
Chapter 9 : Changing Strategies and Processes in the Japanese Machine Tool Product Development
Chapter 10 : Reorganizing the Product and Process Development of an Italian Car Manufacturer
Chapter 11 : Toward New Product and Process Development Networks: The Case of the German Car Industry
Chapter 12 : Involving Manufacturing Employees in the Early Stages of Product Development: A Case Study from the U.S. Automobile Industry
Chapter 13 : The New Product Development System of the Japanese Automobile Industry
Chapter 14 : Reduction of Development Lead Time Through Improvements in the Development Process and Innovations in Production Technology - Reconfirmation of Japanese-Style Supplier Relations. Evidence from a Case Study
Chapter 15 : Industry Hegemony and Company Product Development Performance in the Personal Computer Industry

Part III : Potential and Use of Information and Communication Technology
Chapter 16 : Information and Communication Technologies to Support Cooperation in the Product Development Process
Chapter 17 : CAD/CAM Utilization Patterns in Japan and Germany

Chapter IV : Beyond the Management and Engineering Perspective
Chapter 18 : Knowledge Management is the Key Prerequisite for the Improvement of New Product and Process Development
Chapter 19 : Creating Systemic Capability for Consistent High Performance New Product Development
Chapter 20 : General Conclusion

Index