The strategies of New Product Design system for Small Series Production

This paper addresses a need to increase competitiveness in design chains. Designers are focusing their efforts in the reduction of a number of factors: product development time, engineering change costs, and pilot run time. The approach in this study provides flexibility of New Product Design for Small Series Production. The work focuses on the use postponement design to enable quick response and cost effectiveness. The field studied is luggage design. An evaluation procedure is proposed which will adjust component specifications to increase their degree of availability and substitution. Practical simulations are applied in a luggage design center. The contribution of this work is to shorten the lead-time of design operations and to thereby reduce costs and increase competitiveness.