Releasing a new product is not a task to take lightly. If the product does not sell as planned, it is a wasted investment in advertising, inventory costs and manufacturing. To avoid this scenario, it ...

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This is a one (1) unit course. The ability to develop new products and bring them successfully to market is a critical capability for all companies. Often there is insufficient attention paid to the ...

While Lean principles have been known and applied in a variety of manufacturing processes, the applications in product development have been slower to come. Several companies have also applied Lean to ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Working on a new product is always an exciting and risky process, even when you have all the data suggesting that the product is a win.

Product development, no matter the industry, is both an art and a science. Bringing a concept to life requires intensive research, ingenuity, risk-taking, iteration, testing, and a little magic. More ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

In industrial engineering, digital twins—computer models of systems or processes—let scientists try out ideas before finalizing designs. In addition, on the factory floor, twins can model processes in ...

New cloud techology aims to reduce costs and speed vehicle product development by bringing software collaboration earlier into the process. This may be the era of technology-laden software defined ...