This paper on "Manufacturing Process Design Based on Technology Model Verification" was presented at the NAFEMS World Congress on The Evolution of Product Simulation From Established Methods to Virtual Testing & Prototyping - 24-28 April 2001, The Grand Hotel, Lake Como, Italy.

Summary

What capabilities are required for a design/manufacturing firm to dominate its respective market in the future? Will design or manufacturing companies be able to generate the ideas that detail new or high leverage concepts for capturing market share as well as develop the technologies required to bring about the capabilities envisioned? To support this goal, an operational analysis was conducted to identify high value system concepts and their enabling technologies in a way that was objective, traceable and robust. This analysis determined which of the systems concepts showed the greatest potential for enhancing future design/manufacturing capabilities and which of the embedded technologies bad the most leverage in making the value system concepts a reality.
A model, which reflected the overall values held, was developed to quantify and compare different system concepts' contributions to prospective design/manufacturing capabilities. This model offered a potential new framework for future design/manufacturing doctrine and can easily be modified (broken into separate models) by management for use in their business plan development process. Thus, the model presented is an aid to current and future decisionmakers concerned with expanding their design/manufacturing competitive advantage gap.