Product Development

The process of creating or improving a product or service

• production scheduling

• product development

• custom manufacturing

• applied research

Research that studies existing product problems or possible design improvements for current products

• CAD- Computer-aided design

• applied research

• consumer panel

• pure research

Planning the quantities of material, supplies, and finished products required to meet customer orders

• inventory management

• applied research

• pure research

• product development

Group of people who offer opinions about a product or service

• pure research

• consumer panel

• computer-aided design

• applied research

Form of production in which raw and semi finished materials are processed, assembled, or converted into finished products

• repetitive production

• manufacturing

• production scheduling

• continuous processing

Process in which all manufacturing systems are designed and managed using computers

• CAD Computer aided design

• Computer-integrated manufacturing

• production scheduling

• continuous processing

Assuring product quality by developing standards and measuring results against those standards

• Applied research

• repetitive production

• quality managment

• custom manufacturing

Identifying the steps required in a manufacturing process, the time required to complete each step, and the sequence of the steps

• repetitive production

• production scheduling

• quality management

• product development

Manufacturing process that uses short production runs to make predetermined quantities of different products

• intermittent processing

• quality manageent

• repetitive production

• continuous processing

Research done without a specific product in mind

• pure research

• applied research

• consumer panel

• product develpment