Open AccessRedesigning a product: Strategy for alignment to mass production
Author(s) -
Pedro Agustín Ojeda-Escoto
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal-business administration and business economics marketing accounting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2531-3002
DOI - 10.35429/jbab.2020.7.4.12.19
Subject(s) - consolidation (business) , concurrent engineering , manufacturing engineering , architecture , new product development , product engineering , product design , production (economics) , product (mathematics) , quality (philosophy) , engineering , computer science , finite element method , systems engineering , industrial engineering , engineering drawing , process engineering , process integration , mathematics , business , art , philosophy , geometry , accounting , structural engineering , epistemology , marketing , economics , visual arts , macroeconomics
Today, companies dedicated to the design and manufacture of products seek to improve processes and procedures to provide better services. In addition to this, the development of products designed to meet specific needs plays an important role when feedback is obtained, in terms of design and functionality, from the end user for the consolidation of a product. Looking for such consolidation and identifying improvement opportunities, in the present paper a redesign was made based on specific criteria to align manufacturing to mass production. The theoretical framework is established taking the bases of Concurrent Engineering (CE) and Lean Manufacturing (LM), which allows to base the redesign of a scissor wagon (case study). The proposed design was structured under the approaches of cost reduction, quality improvement and characterization of geometry to reduce weight, allowed to define an architecture capable of being aligned to a mass production. The complete procedure to perform the redesign of the wagon and the analysis criteria used to conform such architecture are reported. Finally, the strategies defined for the inclusion of the new product to production and the geometry optimization results obtained by finite element analysis (FEA) are presented.