Product Description

The Lean Design Guidebook describes eighteen powerful and practical tools for product development teams that enable dramatic manufacturing cost reduction. The emphasis is on team activities that can create breakthroughs in material, labor, and overhead cost, while maintaining the highest quality and value for customers. An integrated approach to the application of these waste-eliminating tools is described, along with proven methods for training and deployment within a single team, or an entire organization. This is a highly readable book for practitioners in all fields related to product design and development, including design team members, team leaders, managers, and organizational improvement champions. The book makes extensive use of graphics (over 150 figures and diagrams) and is rich with real-world examples and step-by-step descriptions. A bibliography, a comprehensive glossary, and an index are provided.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225516 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 320 pages

About the Author
Ron Mascitelli, PMP (Project Management Professional) is a recognized leader in the development of advanced product design and development methods. He presents his workshops and seminars internationally, and has created company-specific lean product development training programs for a number of leading firms, including Parker Hannifin, Harris Corporation, Goodrich Aerospace, Hughes Electronics, Rockwell Automation / Allen-Bradley, and Applied Materials.

Ron served as both Senior Scientist and Director of Research and Development for Hughes Electronics and the Santa Barbara Research Center. His industry experience includes management of advanced product development projects for the Department of Defense, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, NASA, and the Department of Energy. In addition to his product development experience, Ron served as both program manager and technical director for several manufacturing technology (Mantech), producibility, and flexible manufacturing initiatives.

Ron Mascitelli has worked with over sixty companies in ten countries to improve their product development performance and product-line profitability. In addition, he has published more than twenty papers and technical articles in major journals and trade publications, including the International Journal of Technology Management and The Journal of Product Innovation Management, and is a contributing author for IEEE’s Technology Management Handbook. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, Building a Project-Driven Enterprise: How to Slash Waste and Boost Profits Through Lean Project Management.

Customer Reviews

A truly comprehensive and practical book.
I am so impressed with this book! The author covers, in a logical and integrated way, eighteen practical and immediately deployable tips and tools for the cost reduction and value enhancement of any product. I particularly love the "Twenty-Cost-Lever" tradeoff tool; we are already using this to great advantage in my division. I was also impressed with the level of detail and the very readable, step by step directions for implementing the tools. The author clearly is an experienced practitioner and understands just what the reader needs to know to achieve success. I highly recommend this book!

Waste of My Time
I find the material to be a minimalized version of the true tools based in quality lean material. As a practicing continuous improvment specialist i expected more than I got in this trivial account of what should be considered a very important event in a corporate life cycle.
Designing products requires exceptional detail. Likewise I expect someone writing a book on the topic to provide exceptional tools and details. This book is superficial at best and points you in a direction, unfortunately it is the wrong direction.

A great reference, a real value
Already affordable as a management/technology reference, I had also found the publisher's website and ordered 5+ copies for my team at a 50% discount.