num_pages: 358
description: Use Six Sigma to achieve and sustain excellence in product development and commercialization!   To sustain growth and profitability, companies must tightly align product development and commercialization to fast-changing customer requirements. In this book, Clyde Creveling identifies the four process areas most crucial to doing so–and shows executives and managers how to optimize each of them.   Creveling introduces a Six Sigma-enabled workflow that encompasses strategic product/technology portfolio definition and development, research and technology development (R&amp;TD), tactical design engineering processes for commercialization, and operational production and service support. He presents tools, methods, and best practices for selecting the right projects, prioritizing them, and executing them rapidly, consistently, and successfully. Foreword by John Boselli  xiii Preface  xv About the Author  xxi   Chapter 1: Introduction to Six Sigma for Technical Processes  1 Chapter 2: Scorecards for Risk Management in Technical Processes  21 Chapter 3: Project Management in Technical Processes  35 Chapter 4: Strategic Product and Technology Portfolio Renewal Process  51 Chapter 5: Strategic Research and Technology Development Process  95 Chapter 6: Tactical Product Commercialization Process  163 Chapter 7: Fast Track Commercialization  275 Chapter 8: Operational Post-Launch Engineering Support Processes  293 Chapter 9: Future Trends in Six Sigma and Technical Processes  317   Glossary 323 Index 351
language: English
title: Six Sigma for Technical Processes: An Overview for R&D Executives, Technical Leaders, And Engineering Managers
titlecomplete: Six Sigma for Technical Processes: An Overview for R&D Executives, Technical Leaders, And Engineering Managers
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Pearson P T R