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Jun
Tips for Generating Innovations in Electronic Product Development
Successful organizations, world-wide, realize how important it is to their success to nourish creativity and innovation. Innovation is after all, the vanguard to increased competitiveness. Yes, competitiveness, that all important factor, for companies to be able to weather storms like current economy, globalization as well as rapidly evolving and disruptive technologies. My years of experience in the development of innovative electronic products, innovation challenges have necessitated the gathering and practice of techniques from many arenas.
Here are a few ideas that we have developed in my company. I hope you enjoy the following suggestions, and that they help expand and enable innovation in your organization, too.
Environment for Innovation
To build an environment good for innovation there must be an organizational climate that encourages, supports and rewards innovative effort. Executives must say and show, through incentives, rewards and recognition that the organization needs and will listen to the ideas of every one of its people.
Add Urgency
Capturing markets is urgent for companies – pass it on. Adding a sense of urgency to and making innovation a key to the company’s security and growth can generate great new ideas.
Embrace the Obstacles.
It could mean your ideas aren’t yet groundbreaking enough to invigorate the organization, let alone capture a market if there is nothing in the way of a new idea. Keep pushing; it is frequently a new approach to major obstacles that ends up resulting in real innovation.
Create Your Own Evaluation Tools.
Create simple tools such as a list of 10 questions of factors to vet your innovations. Have everyone one on the team participate. This lets everyone get in on the action and have buy-in while keeping evaluation costs down. Chances are you’re making the evaluation process too easy if more than 1 or 2 out of 20 ideas make it through the gamut.
Find Ways to Nurture Volunteerism.
Many people are willing to give up some of their time for great ideas. Find ways to nurture willingness, it is a powerful asset. Sometimes that means giving volunteers a project they have been interested in, or re-delegating tasks in order to free-up their time so they can help a project that could use their expertise and other times it is as simple as giving them kudos in the company news letter.
Promote it
within the organization, keep it out in the open instead of a secret project or “skunk works”. Secret projects run counter to the idea that everyone can have great ideas. Innovation rarely happens behind closed doors.
Innovation Pipeline
Innovation is not magic. Peter Drucker has called it “hard, focused, purposeful work.” Make innovation a permanent part of the everyday process. Build it in to checklists for everyday efforts and carve out time in strategic planning specifically for it. Use tools like an intranet to keep people current on what’s new and exciting so that they can contribute too. The company that competes through innovation is one that has made the process of innovation a part of its daily operation.
Begin With Self-Appraisal
It’s not enough to wait for others to act; individual initiative is must to initiate the process of innovation. Gather data on what must be changed in order to stimulate innovation and establish priorities, outline actions to build the innovative process in your organization and start! Re-evaluate your innovation outline every year.
Get Outside Help if Necessary
There are plenty of professional groups whose main business, like Advantage Electronic Product Development, is the development of new and innovative products.
Look Right Underneath Your Nose
Every time a team or company believes that its device is about as good as possible, someone else comes out with a better idea or product. Many overlooked discoveries were right beneath their noses. Key discoveries that are frequently overlooked are not necessarily difficult, so question every assumption and look again with a fresh pair of eyes.
Simplify
Keep in mind that technological elegance is simplicity, not complexity. Review ideas and innovations specifically for ways to simplify. Then, consider this simplification idea throughout the full life cycle of the product, manufacturing, upgrades and so forth.
Set Goals For It
People accomplish more when they’re trying for goals which are challenging, (even “impossible”) and clear, than they do when trying for any other type of goal. Goals drive action directly by affecting what people pay attention to, how hard they work, and how long they work at something. Assigning creativity goals is as effective as other types of goals, such as productivity goals.
“Re Package” Borrowed Ideas
The insufferable cocklebur inspired the idea for Velcro for the space program. Pringles Potato Chips were conceived after seeing wet leaves, which stack compactly without being damaged
Questions like these should be part of any innovation process:
“Where can I find an idea?”
“What ideas can I modify to fit my problem?”
“How is something similar done in nature”
“What else is like this?”
“What have others done?”
Brainstorm
Brainstorming is considered a group technique, but an individual can brainstorm alone. A small group, with 10 or 12 members is recommended. The most effective way to brainstorm is to have everyone leave any though of criticism at the door. Even preposterous ideas have later been groomed into fabulous innovations.
Substitution
Identify the key characteristics, or attributes, of the product. Then think up ways to change, or improve each of these, (called the “Substitution Method” in design engineering). ”Disassemble” a product into its various characteristics for example, it functions, physical characteristics size, shape, color. Make a game out of inventing alterations for each of these characteristics and carefully address obstacles.
Innovation doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. Care needs to be taken to ensure your creative strategy evolves in a way that will fit your organization. Then your organization can achieve its creativity objectives. Developing and improving good ideas can net breakthrough advances and the reward these efforts.
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Installing a Floppy or Cd/dvd Drive .. Step 10 of 21 in Building your Own Computer
If you’ve been following along with my series you may find after tackling the motherboard and all its intricacies this step should be breath of fresh air.
Choose which drive bay you want to install the drive to and remove the face plate off of that bay. It’s not really important which bay you use. I generally place it lower on the case face because that’s where it’s always been for me. If you’re installing a zip or CD/DVD drive simply pick the bay you wish. I have both a floppy and CD/DVD drive as I use both mediums to transport data.
Do you know why it’s called a floppy?
It is called floppy because it flops if you wave it. Seriously, do you remember the old 5 ¼ disks and how if you flailed them around they would almost bend double.
Now, slide the drive into the bay from the front. If your particular case has a drive rack, then you may need to remove the rack from the system and then screw the drive into the rack separately from the actual case. Otherwise, screw the drive into the case itself. Before doing so, make sure the front of the drive is flush with the front of the PC.
If you are using brackets to hold the drive in place, secure them now. You may need to temporarily disconnect the cables. Once in, tighten the drive in place. Double-check the connections, also checking the connections for other drives to make sure you didn’t bump one out of place.
This wasn’t necessarily the hardest step, but in my humble opinion this particular piece of computer hardware is vital. Try loading a new operating system or a needed document without either drive.
I’m the type of a boy who is close to my uncles. One of my uncles works in a health company. He works as the production manager in that company. Because he works as a production manager in that company, he is responsible for the company’s production cycle and also effective. I have visited his company and look into his job at his company. When I looked into his job, I realized that his job is not easy. He is not a supervisor so that he doesn’t watch their employees or labors work finely, he just look into the scheme, bookkeeping and also the cash flow audit to ensure that all the things run well.
There are several things that my father must make a good decision to make all the things run smoothly. As I mentioned earlier, my uncle works in a health products company. A health products company must product several types of health products that require high level of sterilizations and also good packaging. That’s why it is all my uncle responsibility to make a deal with reputable medical device packaging company. It is very difficult to choose the most reputable medical device packaging company because of the huge number of existing medical device packaging company and a lot of parameters my uncle should compare to ensure that the company is reputable.
When I asked him about the partner that he finally chose, he said that he chose American Printpak Company. He said that he had been comparing several medical device packaging and comparing all of their products such as coldseal packaging, paper bands, medical tubing, healthcare products packaging and many others. After knowing this thing, I asked my uncle about the effectiveness of the production in his company right now. He said that the effectiveness of the production in his company is very good and also reliable.
Jun
Lean Accounting Perfect fit with Ultriva’s Electronic Kanban
A traditional profit and loss (P&L) statement illustrates sales, cost of sales based on standard costing, labor variance, material variance, overhead variance, and labor rate variance. None of these data provide actionable responses in a lean accounting environment. In lean accounting, manufacturers look at the variable costs each month and decide which cost categories should be the focus for continued process improvement.
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Lean accounting cost management provides a fresh way to look at accounting for operations in manufacturing companies. Lean cost management provides the tools that help staff to understand the changing physical operations in the plant. Traditional accounting is not spoken by the staff on the shop floor yet these are the people who have to use the information to improve. Accounting information must be translated, easy to understand, actionable, and timely.
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Manufacturers determine the operational elements in the value stream to track. Those elements are shown in the top half of the scorecard; in the bottom half of the scorecard financial performance is shown. This includes common elements such as sales per employee, inventory turns, variable margin, and gross margin.
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Operational items are displayed on the top of the scorecard because it is where people have to focus. If the operational scorecard is improved, the financial scorecard will also improve. To test the efficacy of the operational parameters, improvements are made on the operational side that do not improve the financial picture were the wrong operational parameters.
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â??The central hallmark of demand driven supply chain is a digital kanban system which achieves savings in several key areas,â? according to Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva, (www.ultriva.com).
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â?¢ It reduces the need to build inventory. All production is initiated based on the immediate needs of customers. Inventory turns for digital kanban parts are optimized (a definition of lean accounting.)
â?¢ Time spent by customer service communicating on expedited parts issues is practically been eliminated through a demand driven supply chain. Often customer service staff members spend 40% of their time expediting part orders prior to electronic kanban implementation.
â?¢ Sales have increased with the benefit of the e-kanban program because the copper manufacturer no longer uses capacity to build parts without an order to buy NOW. 100% of production capacity is utilized to build parts that are already sold as soon as they hit the shipping dock.
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Laksham insists, â??Capacity is expensive and a demand driven supply chain via digital kanban provides lean accounting efficiency and elimination of waste.â?
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Business process efficiencies increase with digital kanban, since orders are no longer run through the scheduling department, cutting shop orders and batching them. Demand driven supply chain replaces a very long chain of events in the order entry and scheduling function. Customer needs are displayed in real time. Everyone, including the customer, can see the status of any digital kanban at all times.
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Ultriva’s flagship product, Ultriva Electronic Kanban, eliminates stock-outs while reducing inventory levels up to 75 percent. Ultriva Lean Scheduling complements demand-driven replenishment strategies by optimizing production schedules in real time around the most variable customer demand. Ultriva Supplier Replenishment extends the replenishment capabilities of Kanban to include schedule-based replenishment, discrete POs, min/max, consignment and VMI (vendor-managed inventory) replenishment methods. Ultriva’s products are in use in more than 100 plants worldwide, incorporating more than 4,000 suppliers, transacting over one billion dollars of inventory and reducing manufacturing costs for industry leaders such as AGCO, Emerson, Ingersoll-Rand, McKesson, Rexnord, and Timken.
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