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RUUNNING
HEAD:
Evaluating
Tools
for
Improving
the
New
Product
Development
Process
Evaluating
Tools
for
Improving
the
New
Product
Development
Process
Kyle
Jones
IT-515
Innovation
in
Information
Technology
Professor
Syed
Southern
New
Hampshire
University
June
4,
2023
Evaluating
Tools
for
Improving
the
New
Product
Development
Process
2
Developing
a
new
product
to
bring
to
market
is
an
expensive
and
arduous
process
that
takes
considerable
time,
money,
and
resources.
There
are
tools
available
that
can
help
facilitate
decision-making
when
working
through
a
project,
the
Stage-Gate
Process,
Quality
Function
Deployment,
Design
for
Manufacturing,
Failure
Modes
and
Effects
Analysis,
and
Computer-
Aided
Design/Engineering/Manufacturing.
The
Stage-Gate
Process
is
a
tool that
involves
having
the
team
break
the
project
up
into
stages
that
are
separated
by
gates.
At
each
gate,
a
decision
must
be
made
whether
to
continue
with
the
project
or
to
kill
it,
also
known
as
a
go/kill
gate.
Stage
1
involves
scoping
the
project,
stage
2
is
research
justification,
stage
3
begins
design,
development,
and
testing,
stage
4
is
more
testing
along
with
validation
of
the
project,
ending
with
a
launch
at
stage
5.
The
HYPERVSN
holodeck
project
would
be
a
great
candidate
for
utilizing
the
Stage-Gate
Process
as
it
can
easily
be
broken
down
into
steps
that
fit
the
stages
well.
For
example,
stage
1
would
be
a
discussion
on
the
feasibility
of
adopting
the
HaptoClone
project
as
the
technology
for
integrating
with
the
holodeck,
then
a
discussion
on
further
research
to
pass
gate
2.
Then
onto
further
research
on
how
to
adapt
the
HaptoClone
for
use
in
the
Holodeck
customer
experience
project,
and
so
on
from
there.
The
next
possible
tool
for
helping
develop
the
Holodeck
project
is
the
Quality
Function
Deployment
tool
or
QFD.
The
QFD
is
a
matrix
whose
aim
is
to
weigh
the
goals
of
the
project
against
customer
requirements.
At
the
intersection
of
each
goal
and
requirement,
a
weight
is
given
to
represent
the
strength
of
the
relation
of
the
customer
requirements
to
that
attribute,
and
below
the
matric,
an
importance
is
assigned
for
each
requirement.
The
QFD
is
a
possible
tool
to
use
for
the
Holodeck
project
only
if
the
QFD
is
used
from
the
beginning
of
the
project.
If
used
at
Evaluating
Tools
for
Improving
the
New
Product
Development
Process
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the
beginning,
it
would
be
more
useful
to
help
facilitate
the
decision
on
which
technology
to
go
with
for
the
holodeck,
rather
than
determining
the
technology’s
fit
with
the
project.
The
Design
for
Manufacturing
tool
defines
manufacturing
guidelines
for
a
cheaper
and
more
streamlined
manufacturing
process.
When
considering
the
manufacturing
process
at
the
beginning
of
the
product
design
process,
abundant
costs
can
be
saved
from
the
onset.
One
example
of
a
manufacturing
guideline
is
documenting
the
allowable
tolerance
for
a
product.
When
knowing
the
goal
tolerance
for
the
manufacturing
process
ahead
of
time,
time
and
money
can
be
saved
by
meeting
the
tolerance
goals
starting
with
the
prototype.
It
is
possible
that
there
will be
some
manufacturing
involved
adapting
the
HaptoClone
to
work
with
the
Holodeck
project,
so
it
may
have
some
merit
to
incorporate
the
Design
for
Manufacturing
tool
when
planning
out
the
design
process,
however,
the
other
tools
may
hold
more
value
to
the
project.
Failure
Modes
and
Effects
Analysis
or
FMEA,
is
a
design
tool
that
puts
risk
at
the
forefront
of
the
design
process.
Potential
failures
are
identified
and
documented
along
with
their
likelihood
of
occurrence
to
obtain
a
risk
factor
for
each
potential
failure
identified
by
multiplying
the
severity
of
the
risk
by
the
likelihood
of
occurrence.
Once
a
risk
matrix
has
been
created
for
the
project,
design
features
that
address
the
risk
in
order
of
their
risk
factor
are
prioritized
in
order
to
address
said
risk.
Designing
in
such
a
way
can
help
reduce
the
likelihood
or
impact
of
a
resulting
failure
because
it
was
prioritized
directly
in
the
design
process,
rather
than
as
a
reactionary
measure
to
a
catastrophe.
It
is
possible
that
the
HaptoClone
integration
project
may
benefit
from
FMEA.
However,
similar
to
the
Design
for
Manufacturing
tool,
it
would
likely
benefit
more
had
it
been
used
at
the
beginning
of
the
Holodeck
project
as
a
whole,
rather
than
for
the
integration
project.
One
example
failure
for
the
holodeck
may
be
technical
failures
in
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Tools
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Improving
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Product
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holographic
displays.
A
possible
operational
contingency
may
be
backup
displays
or
maintenance
on
site.
Computer-aided
Design,
Engineering,
and
Manufacturing
(CAD,
CAE,
CAM)
is
a
design
process
that
leverages
computing
to
aid
in
the
design,
engineering,
and
manufacturing
process.
Workers
skilled
at
using
CAD
software
are
able
to
fully
model
products
virtually
to
come
up
with
design
ideas
and
prototypes
with
exact
measurements.
Utilizing
CAD
and
CAE
would
be
a
great
benefit
to
the
HaptoClone
integration
project
as
the
HaptoClone
will
likely
need
to
be
adapted
in
order
to
be
commercialized
for
the
Holodeck
project.
Designers
and
engineers
can
design
and
test
on
computers
to
generate
the
most
viable
product
before
ever
going
to
the
manufacturing
step.