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Design-in
Collaboration between customer and supplier to design a component and its production process.
See : Resident Engineer.
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Lean Product and Process Development
A business system focused on eliminating waste in product and process development through the generation and application of useful knowledge.
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Set-Based Concurrent Engineering
An approach to designing products and services in which developers consider sets of ideas rather than a single idea.
See : Trade-off curves.
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