Concurrent Engineering Definition
Quality Function Deployment
How Toyota’s product design and development process helps find the best solutions and develop successful products. Advertisement Toyota Motor Corporation is an industry leader in product development lead time while using fewer engineers than its U.S. It has also shown remarkable consistency in market share growth and profit per vehicle, which led to cash reserves of $21 billion, exceeding those of the “Big Three” automakers combined. Adobe illustrator cs6 free download. The Toyota Production System (TPS), dubbed “lean manufacturing,” has been critical in these accomplishments, but we believe that Toyota’s product design and development system is also an important contributor. While Taiichi Ohno and others have meticulously described the TPS, the Toyota development system has not been well documented. Indeed, Toyota does not use many of the practices often considered critical to successful concurrent engineering and associated with Japanese manufacturers.