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If asked, almost everybody in industry today would agree that the Taylorist divide between those who plan and structure work and those who execute it has led to adverse effects. Similarly, there is now a broad consensus that the traditional sequential organization of the product development process, in which manufacturing is the last and least issue in the chain of activities, must be overhauled. The need to anticipate problems with the manufacturability of new products is now widely recognized, as is the need to involve manufacturing representatives in the early stages of the product development process so that they can voice their specific concerns. Only in this way will manufacturing be able to meet the ever increasing challenges of competition over costs, time, and quality.
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Jürgens, U. (1999). Anticipating Problems with Manufacturing during the Product Development Process. In: Comacchio, A., Volpato, G., Camuffo, A. (eds) Automation in Automotive Industries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59864-7_7
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