Handbook of Management Scales/Product design simplicity

Multi-functional employees

Items

• We make an effort, in the design process, to list only the specifications that are really needed.
• There is a strong customer focus in our design process.
• The emphasis in part design is on minimizing the part count.
• Our engineers make an effort to simplify our product designs.
• The parts we produce are designed for ease in manufacturability and assembly.

Extent to which we have simplified and reduced parts counts in main product over the last five years.

Source

• Flynn/Flynn (1999): Information-Processing Alternatives for Coping with Manufacturing Environment Complexity. Decision Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1021-1052.