Lean Design
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Lean Design Juan Manuel Jauregui-Beckera* and Nicolas Perryb a Laboratory of Design, Production and Management, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands b I2M – Mechanical and Engineering Institute of Bordeaux, Art et Métiers ParisTech, Talance, France
Synonyms Lean design; Lean engineering design; Lean development
Definitions Lean design is a term increasingly being used by both academics and practitioners to refer to lean principles applied in the context of design. However, as this context is not uniform, the meaning of lean design is not either. Lean design can be used as a synonym of lean development (which refers to leaning the processes required to be undertaken for translating a market need into a manufacturable device, as it is used in Ward and Sobek (2014), Ōno (1988), and Bauch (2004)), as a verb (referring to having the process of designing being performed in a lean fashion, as it is used by Baines et al. (2006)), and as a noun (referring to an object that fulfills a set of desired functions by being lean, as it is used in Johansson and Sundin (2014), Dombrowski et al. (2014), and Gautam and Singh (2008)). All three definitions are intrinsically founded upon the principles of the lean philosophy: eliminating non-valueadding activities (for a process) or sub-functions (i.e., subpart or components for a product) relatively to the needs of the end customer. From the perspective of the consumer of the product or service, the value refers to the expected functionalities of the product or process, according to the amount the customer is willing to pay for. Lean approach preserves value with less work or resources involvement. Based on this, the following definitions can be drawn: Definition 1: Lean Product Design (synonym of Lean Product Development). Is a product development process characterized by reacting to information continually as it is being generated, keeping product options open longer and enabling the engineers’ continuous (re)action on new information about customers, markets, suppliers, and production capabilities. Lean product development, as described by Morgan and Liker (Ward and Sobek 2014), refers to the management of (1) skilled people, (2) tools and technologies, and (3) information and decision-making during the phases of product development process (e.g., problem analysis, concept design, layout design, detail design, testing and prototyping, and finally, production ramp-up as described by Ulrich (Ulrich et al. 2011)). Definition 2: Lean Design (verb). Is a design process that focuses on continuous customer value maximization while minimizing all activities and tasks that are not adding value. Lean design deals with a subset of methods and tools of lean product development, targeting the conceptual, layout, and detail design phases. Definition 3: Lean Design (noun). Lean design can be seen as minimal (lean) functions that fit to the customer’s needs, maximizing added value with minimizing materials, energy, and overfunctionalities.
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