No Mock-Up
After everyone on the team gave their thumbs-up, the data for the parts were electronically transferred directly into computer-aided manufacturing systems at the various suppliers. The NCR designers were so confident everything would work as intended that they didn’t bother making a mock-up DFM can be a powerful weapon against foreign competition. Several years ago, IBM used Brotherhood Hurst’s software to analyze dot-matrix printers it was sourcing from Japan-and found it could do substantially better Its Pro printer had 65 percent fewer parts and slashed assembly time b¥ 90 percent. Almost anything made in Japan insists Professor Brotherhood can be improved upon with DFM-often impressively
Question What development problems has the NCR approach overcome.
