Articles on Spontaneous Supply
Chains
Spontaneous supply chains Automatic Part Resupply with illustration of kanban
Availability of parts, materials, and processing equipment, see center
of Manufacture Research
Articles on Design and
Implementation Examples
How to Design
Ultra-Low-Cost Truss Structures →
→ → Half_Cost_Solar
with Case study on Concentrated Solar Power
Low Cost Machine Control with Linkages Read the ultimate case-study of a
greenfield BTO plant based on these principles for the
Hoffman Brand of
Pentair
Results
page that that shows the best client results in several categories.
Avoid These Counter-Productive Policies
"Changing time" article:
The
Case Against Offshoring;
and What to Replace
it with.
Why Companies Can't Innovate and how to
unleash innovation (Lists counter policies)
How_not_to_lower_cost with new warnings about product
development "processes that don’t even have a Product Design phase and
skip from "concept testing" to "prototype testing.."
7 Reasons Why "Cost
Cuttine " after Design Doesn't Work;
Low-bidding Offshoring
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These last three alone can drain away 2/3 of engineering resources!
(Cheap parts, bidding, & Offshring
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Exceed
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Commercializatio and
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