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Product-Driven Process Value Analysis

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The paper describes a methodology to support business process re-engineering by mapping product requirements to product development phases in order to analyze their contribution to value creation. The methodology has been already validated by the authors in different industrial sectors through real case studies [1], that were all characterized by well established business processes, needing improvements to preserve their competitiveness in the marketplace. In this chapter the effectiveness of the methodology in identifying process criticalities is tested with regards to industrial processes experiencing under capacities in satisfying the market demand as well as concerning not yet established business ideas. The task is performed by considering the wood pellet production process as a case study.

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Abbreviations

BPR:

Business Process Re-engineering

BSC:

Balanced Scorecard

CR:

Customer Requirement

EMS:

Energy, Material, Signal

ETO:

Engineering To Order

IDEF:

Integration DEFinition

LHV:

Lower Heating Value

POS:

Phase Overall Satisfaction

POV:

Phase Overall Value

PSSs:

Product and Service Systems

RES:

RESources

TQM:

Total Quality Management

TRIZ:

Theory of Inventive Problem Solving

VA:

Value Analysis

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Borgianni, Y., Cascini, G., Rotini, F. (2011). Product-Driven Process Value Analysis. In: Bernard, A. (eds) Global Product Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15973-2_38

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