Manufacturing Processes Documentation Improvement and Standardization for New Generation Blade Product

Abstract

The new product introduction process is the heart of every company that manufactures products. Its effectiveness will play a critical role to gain competitive advantage. There is a need to reduce the quantity of assembly and packaging defects during proto builds for a new generation blade product. It was demonstrated that in order to achieve this, standards methods are required to ensure products are assembled, tested, and packed around the world in the same manner. These processes need to be the best in class to guarantee high quality and that wastes are eliminated to attain the expected revenue. For this, the product preparation process was used to create the standard methods. The objective was achieved once the methods were implemented and used during the proto builds in the different worldwide manufacturing sites. This resulted in the required reduction of the assembly and packaging defects.Key Terms ⎯ new product introduction, product preparation process, proto builds, standard manufacturing methods.