The Lean Design Guidebook:
     Everything Your Product Development Team           Needs to Slash Manufacturing Cost
               by Ronald Mascitelli

ISBN: 0-9662697-2-1, Price: $44.95
Publication Date: May 2004
320 Pages, Double Spiral Bound, 8.5” x 11”

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction - About this Guidebook

Part I – The Business of Lean Design

     1.1 Ground Rules and Basic Tools
     1.2 What’s “Lean” Mean?
     1.3 When is a Product Profitable?
     1.4 Screening for Profitable Projects
     1.5 Defining a Target Cost
     1.6 Twenty Key Levers for Product Cost

Part II – Consider Cost from the Very Beginning

     2.1 Capturing the Voice of the Customer
     2.2 Prioritizing Customer Requirements

Part III – Reduce Cost Through Cross-Product Synergy

     3.1 The Product Line as a “System”
     3.2 Platforms Come in All Sizes
     3.3 Modular, Scalable, and Mass Customizable

Part IV – Cost Leverage Is Greatest During Conceptual Design

     4.1 Value Engineering and Analysis
     4.2 The "Quick-Look" Value Engineering Event
     4.3 Sponsoring a Design Challenge

Part V – Preparing for Production: The “3P” Process

     5.1 What’s a Lean Factory Look Like?
     5.2 Overview of Toyota’s 3P Process
     5.3 The “How’s it Built?” Review
     5.4 The “Seven-Alternatives” Process

Part VI – Attack Direct Costs During Detailed Design

     6.1 What’s a Process Capability?
     6.2 Six-Sigma / Robust Design
     6.3 Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)
     6.4 Achieving Continuous Cost Improvement

Conclusion – A Word about Lean and Green

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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