Comments on: Why is Change Process Speed Important? http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/ Product Lifecycle Management by Oleg Shilovitsky Wed, 30 May 2012 21:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: olegshilovitsky http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2939 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:04:26 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2939 Conrad, Thank you for your comment. Indeed, 10-15 years ago, when most of manufacturers had no concerns about competition, price and time to market, issue of speed wasn’t so important. Today, it is crucial. Best, Oleg

]]> By: conrad http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2938 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:21:16 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2938 Some products evolve, others are discarded and replaced by new products. The discussion around the value of speed of change depends on the type of product you are working with. But I agree there is always value in quicker change. The phrase “time is money” does apply here.
In fact the more we move to Concurrent Engineering and Production, the more important the speed of processing change matters and becomes an enabler of new ways of doing business.
Of course, it is not a replacement for striving to get it right the first time. The issue is that “right” is temporal in many industries by the complex nature of some products and the changing market requirements.

]]> By: olegshilovitsky http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2925 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:16:20 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2925 Chris, If you have market opportunity, but you need 40 days to make a change, you will loose. This is my perspective. Probably, I’m not getting your classification of “hard dollars” vs. “soft dollars”… sorry. Could you explain it, please? Thanks, Oleg

]]> By: olegshilovitsky http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2924 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:13:14 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2924 Chris, I’m sorry if I confused you. But how you can completely separate design from other activities? In the organizations I had chance to see, design from scratch is something that rarely happens. On the other side lots of new features introduced for existing product models/configurations or customer-driven changes/configurations happens. So, in this case “change” and everything related to design-to-manufacturing process… Does it make sense? Best, Oleg

]]> By: chris http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2923 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:22:39 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2923 Oleg I agree that opportunity cost is important and time is critical in that measure. But my impression is you were going after hard dollar cost in your post as you never mentioned anything about market opportunity. You cannot lump design, post design, hard dollar and soft dollar together and wave your hands around. If that is this esence of the post you could have stopped at the title and just said “doing things faster is important”.

]]> By: chris http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2922 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:18:14 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2922 Brian the original post is about change post design. Certainly during design you want to itterate quickly. But this is not what the post was about. You cannot lump design and post design together.

]]> By: Brian http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2919 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:04:16 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2919 Chris, The $12M scrap would, over the long term, be reduced by having a better & faster change process throughout the entire design/manufacturing cycle. Of course if you have reached high volume manufacturing or have already committed large dollars to tooling then use up Vs scrap will save you money.

A faster change process will not save much money if you have an inherently flawed design process. If the design process is driven from Clear, Concise and Valid requirements at all stages and all levels of the design then you will end up with less scrap at the later stages. However, in order to keep these requirements up to date you do need a fast change process. Getting it right the first time does not mean that you only have one iteration through the design loop. It should mean that the definition of success is well understood before you start work and you reach something approaching that defined success the first time (ie. at product release to customer). The design process should (must) be iterative and be supported by a fast change process.

Cheers,
Brian.

]]> By: olegshilovitsky http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2916 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:34:03 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2916 Chris, Take a look. A little bit old, but impressive historical review on role of time in building competitive advantage.
Time – The Next Source of Competitive Advantage
http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~baum/workshop/Stalk%20–%20Time%20HBR%201988.pdf
In the end of the day it is all about ability to manage change faster.
Just my thoughts. YMMV.
Best, Oleg

]]> By: chris http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2911 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:06:57 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2911 I honetly would say you are wrong.

]]> By: olegshilovitsky http://plmtwine.com/2009/11/05/why-is-change-process-speed-important/#comment-2909 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:52:58 +0000 http://plmtwine.com/?p=3542#comment-2909 Chris, I think, if you’ll notify manufacturing about change faster – less stuff will go to scrap. Am I wrong?

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