| dc.description.abstract | In today’s global competition, the number of successful new product launches has become major successful factor due to the profitability, leadership recognition and positioning that an enterprise can enjoy from new products. Possessing world-class New Product Development (NPD) processes in both business practices and IT support is critical for winning enterprises. Taiwanese enterprises are very competitive on areas like product design, prototyping, verification and validation, and pilot run. However, areas such as product concept design, mass customization, configuration and change management, seamlessly handling of frequent design changes (with collaborating vendors), and R&D knowledge reuse are all important for Taiwanese companies to further enhance in order to possess world-class NPD processes.
In Our Research, we will develop a information system, focus on the development of the quality function deployment (QFD), to support the automation of the NPD process, and the objective is to provide a solution about the challenge in NPD process. QFD is more complexity process in NPD and it will use the variety of product data in different phase in NPD, and our research will analysis the construct process of QFD and the application of the QFD in NPD. When we develop the information system, we must understand clearly that we need a static model to represent the product data completely and a system framework that can use the static model properly. So we will design a static model to represent the framework of the QFD first, and then start system design and system architecture development. And our research will also describe how to use the static model and the system architecture to implement the construction of QFD and relative application.
Finally our research use the product development project, Auxiliary Power Unit, as the example, to use our static model and system architecture and verify the support of information system. Although it need certain degree of user involvement in NPD process, but some mechanical work and task can accomplish by the support of information system, even achieve the goal of the automation, and shorten the time of NPD process to increase the efficiency. | en_US |