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Product and related manufacturing process/system development requirements are changing rapidly in most discrete part manufacturing industries. In most industries today, new products must be designed and developed to be intelligent "smart" products -- starting from very early Multi-Generation Product Planning and Multi-Generation Technology Planning and Maturation development stages.
New processes, new implementation methods, new integration and infrastructure systems and new collaborative capabilities are required for software and electronics embedded within intelligent products, as well as for the multi-physic development of new product hardware and systems.
Throughout each industry the development of new products is unique. For example, power and transmission design and development are very different in vehicle industries compared with cellular telephone or printer industries. While different, new upfront engineering, target cascading, systems engineering, analysis leads design and other related processes and implementation methods for new product development are essential in most industries to achieve "Breakthrough Improvement" objectives. The same is true for new intelligent "smart" product control systems and wireless and cabled interface systems, as well.
For most industry leaders new product development requires world-class capabilities in all six (6) product development disciplines outlined in the Product Development Overview slide above: