Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) Quiz

Kaizen promotes:

• Continuous improvement

• Sequential development

• Decreased productivity

• Increased waste

What does product development strategy aim to bring to the market?

• Old products

• Modified existing products

• Services only

• Unchanged products

An effective organizational structure for product development should:

• Isolate departments to focus on their tasks

• Encourage cross-functional teams for better collaboration

• Focus solely on top-down management decisions

• Discourage feedback from lower-level employees

Customer behavior analysis in product development helps in:

• Ignoring market trends

• Focusing solely on existing customers

• Understanding needs and predicting future trends

• Increasing product price

Which engineering approach is emphasized more in IPPD?

• Sequential Engineering

• Concurrent Engineering

• Linear Engineering

• Agile Engineering

Involving customers in the development process can:

• Increase confusion and delay the project

• Help tailor the product to meet customer needs more accurately

• Decrease product quality

• Limit innovation

In product development, the role of the process planner is to:

• Define and optimize manufacturing process plans

• Finalize product design

• Market the product

• Supply materials

What is the primary goal of Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD)?

• Increase product development time

• Decrease manufacturing costs

• Optimize design, manufacturing, and supportability processes

• Reduce customer satisfaction

A key benefit of competitor analysis is:

• Lowering marketing expenses

• Improving product differentiation and positioning

• Copying competitor strategies

• Reducing product quality

Integrated Product Development emphasizes on:

• Price-minus pricing

• Cost-plus pricing

• Value-based pricing

• Competitive pricing