TPM

(1) Effect on LCC at each step It is said that 80% of the LCC of products and equipment is determined at the design stage (see Figure “Effect on Life Cycle Cost at Each Development Step”). Effect on LCC at Each Development Step (2) Using concurrent engineering to reduce the…

Why is Early Management necessary? Because 80% of the LCC (life-cycle cost) of products and equipment is determined at the design stage.Because Early Management program the whole service life of the product or equipment, at the design stage. Early Management boils down to the endeavour to create factory-friendly equipment and…

To train your staff and fine-tune the system, try it out on sufficient pilot projects for everyone to take part, at the right level of difficulty for the design engineers.

Product planning has to be preceded by market research. In this manual, the blanket term “management of product and equipment development”, or “development management”, will be used to refer to all the activities taking place from the market research stage onwards. In the early stages of TPM (Level 1), development…