Management And Optimization Of New Product Development Process

Management of new product development process has been one of approaches to increase competitive power of manufacturing enterprises, while both the ideas of management and the tools of management can't satisfy the needs of most of them at present. The primary object of the thesis is new product process, and its main contents are as follows:At first, after the existing state of the approaches and methods of new product development process in manufacturing enterprises is introduced, the whole architecture of process management theory (including Concurrent Engineering, Business Process Reengineering and Project Management) is concluded. A typical new product development process is taken as a concrete example and optimized by employing the advanced ideas of management mentioned above, as traditional functionalized organization management is transformed into process-oriented management and post control is transformed into planned control, to improve the quality of product development, shorten the period of it and satisfy the needs of customers more.Then the author describes an architecture of a new product development process management supporting concurrent collaboration, which integrates project management and workflow management, and surveys its component objects, attributes and their relations, with the function including project management, workflow management (examination and approval flow> change management) and collaboration control (collaboration, concurrence and version control). The architecture realizes the integration of product development process, product information and product development organization so that the entire flow of new product development can be managed in both macroscopic view and microscopic view, and provides a platform that can support collaborative development of new product, optimize the process entirely and improve the process continuously.To verify the feasibility of the architecture, the key technologies to realize the two main functions are explored: in project management, project plan and progress control tools are investigated, and the principles of work breakdown, Gannt chart and the automatic-generated algorithm of AON are discussed specially; in workflow management, the WFMC reference model and the network process model based on activity and status are introduced.At last, taking LG-PDM and the process management system of designing institute as the examples, the author presents the cases and the effects of the process management system of new product development (mainly project management and workflow management) to verify the above research.