Die Woche - Zeitfresser in der Konstruktion abbauen

VDMA 2011
164 pages

ISBN 978-3-8163-0610-8

The design departments of mechanical and plant engineering companies are faced with a major challenge: on the one hand, they are required to design customized products in ever shorter timeframes and, on the other hand, to act as a source of information for many other departments to ensure that order processing runs as smoothly as possible.

At the same time, demographic trends show us that in the coming years, more experienced designers will retire from active professional life than young engineers will be trained by universities.

Against the background of these developments, the VDMA Design Working Group developed measures and options that would lead to a more efficient use of existing design capacities. The results were published in the form of a non-fiction paperback by VDMA-Verlag.

The story described in this book is set in a fictitious mechanical and plant engineering company that is highly recognizable to many mechanical engineering companies. However, it not only describes the typical day-to-day business, but also develops ideas and solutions for simple organizational measures to reduce time wasters in the design department and recover valuable design capacities. In addition, suggestions are made on how to improve the transparency of the management of a design department and which rules can be used to shorten throughput times in design.

A novel from the world of design. A textbook on the design and management of a contemporary design department that actively engages with the implementation of the lean philosophy, and an entertaining read for designers and their superiors with a multitude of suggestions for implementation in practice.

Author:
Hans- Wilhelm Leyendecker