I think that a good strategy could be to select a different coating from the same supplier as a short term solution to reduce sourcing risk while keeping the project on track and not causing any delay...

At my company, we recently updated our design control procedures, and in the updated procedure there was a clause that said that this procedure update applied to newly chartered projects or projects w...

As tn58 mentioned that there are three types of nonconformances: minor, major, and critical, I would also say that another huge factor that determines the type of nonconformance is when the nonconform...

I agree that small companies would most likely hire an outside contractor to perform an audit if they do not have the resources to do their own internal audit. However, sometimes even larger companies...

Similar to aij5, I have had quite a bit of experience working on ECO's (my company calls them CCFs (Change Control Form)) for a product that my company acquired and it was already on the market. Unfor...

In this simulation we are learning about ways to boost sagging sales. In my company, we are a large OEM that sells directly to the customer, and when we have sagging sales, the first thing we do is an...

I have worked on another project where it failed because of issues that it was having in the field. Our company acquired the product from another small start up company, and since the product was alre...

I agree with all the posts above explaining the value of metrics, but I do think there can reach a point where a company can over-track metrics to a point that it becomes burdensome on the project. If...

Many of the posts above mentioned that often rather than killing a project, it is just placed on hold until circumstances permit it to continue, and I think this is very true, but I also liked how tha...

From my experience in industry I have seen several product failures, and one of them was particularly interesting. The product was a spinal implant with unique fixation features. During development of...

One of the biggest hurdles my company has overcome in order to drive more innovation was similar to the point Dr. Simon mentioned in his lecture, about how companies often try to drive their innovatio...

As a company launches more and more products and their portfolio becomes larger and larger, it can become very cumbersome to manage such a large portfolio. Several of their products may be in the decl...

I wouldn't necessarily say they are the most important parts of the entire project, but I would agree that these are very important aspects of the executing phase of a project. Having poor communicati...

I think those were very good points mentioned by cs22 and msc52njit-edu. Although I do agree that it can be more beneficial in the long run to delay the project in order to fully resolve an issue, I d...

In addition to the factors mentioned by msc52njit-edu that can negatively impact the SV of a project, from my experience working on medical device projects one of the factors which often had a negativ...