We’ve got two stories today that illustrate ways of taking cost out of building cars but they come from very different parts of the auto market. One is about making high-volume, low-cost cars at Renault. The other is about high-end, low-volume electric cars from Tesla. The Renault story comes from the Wall Street Journal (Renault Takes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘design’
Two ways to take cost out of cars
Posted in Auto Industry, design, Manufacturing, Operations Strategy, tagged Auto Industry, design, Manufacturing, Operations Strategy, Renault, Tesla on April 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Carving or printing replacement parts
Posted in Customization, design, Operations Strategy, tagged 3D printing, Customization, design, Operations Strategy, replacement parts on October 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
How do you get replacement parts? In a developed country the answer is pretty simple. For some things (e.g., car parts), you may need to go through a dealer or specialized retailer. For others, you may be able to just stop by a general hardware store. But what if you are in a developing nation? [...]
Saving pennies on pants
Posted in Apparel, design, Manufacturing, tagged Apparel, design, Manufacturing on June 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Some eye candy from Businessweek (Cost-Cutting Is Rampant in Fashion, May 26). So the question is what does it take to save money in apparel? With material costs rising, pennies matter. Eliminating a few features to simplify assembly can make a significant difference in the profitability of the product. Because only so much can be [...]
A Quirky business
Posted in design, Operations Strategy, Product Development, tagged design, Operations Strategy, Product Development on August 9, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A little while ago, we posted about Made.com, a firm that let customers vote about what furniture designs it should produce. Now we get Quirky, a firm that takes crowd sourcing to a different level.
A round up of updates
Posted in Auto Industry, Contracting, design, global operations, Integration, Operations Strategy, Services, Supply Chain, Telecommunications, tagged Auto Industry, Customer Service, design, global operations, Manufacturing, Netflix, Operations Strategy on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last few months we have written on a wide variety of topics and the last few days have seen a number of updates on many of them: We have written about net neutrality, particularly with reference to iPhone bandwith issues. Now a federal court has questioned whether the FCC has the authority to [...]
What about design?
Posted in Contracting, design, Manufacturing, Six Sigma, tagged Boeing, design, Six Sigma on September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
One aspect of operations we have yet to touch on in this blog is design. Within operations it is clearest to focus on how to build products or deliver services. But there is an initial question of how do you decide what the specifications of the product are or what the characteristics of the services [...]
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