Abstract: Part 1 Agile manufacturing: a 21st century paradigm - agile manufacturing agile manufacturing - four core concepts. Part 2 Agile manufacturing and change management: the change implications of agile manufacturing the traditional management accounting paradigm the traditional organizational control, technological and design paradigms. Part 3 Agile manufacturing enterprise design: agile manufacturing enterprise design the enterprise design process for agile manufacturing interdisciplinary design management accounting and investment appraisal for agile manufacturing. Part 4 Skill and knowledge enhancing technologies for agile manufacturing: skill and knowledge enhancing technologies design of skill and knowledge enhancing technologies for machine tool systems. Part 5 Agile manufacturing - the future: agile manufacturing - issues, problems and future developments.

Abstract: Agile manufacturing requires an intelligent engineering design support system that can provide rapid evaluation of engineering designs and design changes. Often this process results in modified products that require adjustments and retooling of the manufacturing processes that produce the product. This paper discusses the requirements for an intelligent concurrent engineering design support station that will allow the design engineer to evaluate design modifications while concurrently examining suitability for manufacturing. >

Abstract: IDEAL—the Interface Development Environment and Analysis Lattice—is an interactive tool environment that supports user-centered interface development activities. Specifically, it supports activities such as: • task analysis, user interface design representation, and usability goal specification that occur before formative usability evaluation sessions with users. • qualitative and quantitative data collection during formative usability evaluation sessions, and • cost/importance and impact analyses, other data analysis techniques, and redesign that occur after formative usability evaluation sessions.

Abstract: Sandia National Laboratories has undertaken the Agile Product Realization for Innovative electroMEchanical Devices (A-PRIMED) pilot project to develop and implement technologies for agile design and manufacturing of electrochemical components. Emphasis on information-driven processes, concurrent engineering and multi-functional team communications makes computer-supported cooperative work critical to achieving significantly faster product development cycles. This report describes analyses conducted in developing communications requirements and a communications plan that addresses the unique communications demands of an agile enterprise.

Abstract: Product developers are typically faced with small budgets, tight schedules, and over-committed resources. To deliver high-quality products under these constraints, developers need an understanding of basic design principles, techniques that allow them to work effectively with materials on hand, and a development process that is built around the use of such techniques. This tutorial explains how low-fidelity prototyping and usability testing can be used in a process of iterative refinement in order to develop more usable products.

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