The Study And Implementation Of Agile Development For OEM Based Mode Of Refrigerator

As the most essential concept of agile manufacturing (AM), agile virtual enterprise (AVE) is not only an enterprise organising mode but also a cooperating mode for enterprises to achieve the competitive advantage in the 21st century.Targeting to the real requirements of refrigerator production in the strong competition of the current globalised marketplace, this thesis introduced the principle of the agile virtual enterprise into new refrigerator development project to meet the diverse needs of customers. Based on the idea of concurrent engineering (CE), new product development must be taken into consideration in order to adapt the rapid marketing change, to obtain agile responsiveness and reduce the time to market, to achieve lower price and better product quality and high chance to hit target. So new products development must introduce the mode of agile development.The main works conducted in this thesis and academic contribution to knowledge as well as research results achieved are as the follows:(1) Established the improved work flow for new product development and design under OEM Based mode.(2) Through the combination of concurrent engineering idea and agile virtual manufacturing (AVM) principle, the both OEMs and its own company can achieve the success.(3) The workflow and method of OEM products' design was defined, this directly leads that the time to market was shorten for new products and a lot of manpower and manufacturing resource were saved. This is also helpful to improve the quality of products and meet the needs of customer.(4) The concurrent engineering ideas were introduced into the development of new products and the model of work flow for concurrent development was built This leads that not only is the product development speed improved but also the time to market reduced.(5) The new approach has been validated under the testing experiments and the result under the technology with virtual development mode can be used to support the decision making for refrigerator development and designs, marketing position as well as enterprise strategy.