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Title:

Assessing Information Waste in Lean Product Development

Author(s):
Graebsch, Martin; Seering, Warren; Lindemann, Udo
Abstract:
Lean Product Development seeks to enhance the efficiency of product development projects by reducing and eliminating non-value-adding activities or waste, which can exist on every process level. The value stream through product development processes is a flow of information, and hence waste exists in interpersonal communication. The study elaborates the hypothesis that most information transfers do not add value to the product. It was further theorized that different means of communication are b...     »
Keywords:
Lean Development; Waste; Information
Book / Congress title:
16th International Conference on Engineering Design ICED'07
Congress (additional information):
28.-31.08.2007
Congress city:
Paris, Frankreich
Year:
2007
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