Impact of the synergy between technology management and technological capability on new product development:a system dynamics approach

This paper employs system dynamics to explore how the synergy between technology management and technological capability affects new product development.The results show that the synergy between technology management and technological capability has positive impact on new product development.Moreover, the leading synergy processes between technology management and technological capability in different new product development stages are different.This paper deepens the theoretical understanding of how to achieve new product development, and also provides useful guidance for firms to implement new product development.

A Study on the Activities During the Fuzzy Front End in New Product Development Projects of Korean ICT Firms

Although previous studies on Korean manufacturing firms have empirically analyzed the causal relationship between activities during the FFE(Fuzzy Front End)and success of NPD(New Product Development)of Korean manufacturing firms,no study has concretely focused on Korean ICT(Information and Communications Technology)firms and their FFE activities.The main aim of this study is to identify the activities of these firms during their FFE and provide managerial insights into the other ICT firms.The authors conducted a survey(106 valid responses)that their FFE activities on new product development project managers in Korean ICT firms.The results showed that even though new product development managers of Korean ICT firms did not search for ideas systemically,they communicated with those departments/divisions that had frequent interaction with customers for idea assessment,with the active involvement of middle-or higher-level managers.They thoroughly established initial plans in the pre-development stages and seriously analyzed competitors’products and direct and indirect customer interactions in their market survey activities.

Development of New Products——A Must for the Development of Enterprise

Jiangsu Feng Ming Group is a large and comprehensive provincial foodstuff enterprise group combining research, development, production and operation, trading and circulation and service. Over the past few years, on the basis of the processing of fruits and vegetables and taking its name brand products as the lead, the group has

Investigation Into the Market-Orientated New Product Development Performance

The effect that the market orientation brings to product innovation performance is reported and the degree of product innovativeness is explored. The interdepartmental integration inside the company is also investigated. A series of hypotheses were developed aiming at presenting a conceptual framework to clarify how market orientation contributes to product innovation performance-moderated by the degree of product innovativeness and affected by the interdepartmental integration. Survey data from 36 business units were analyzed based on the respondents in the research. The statistic results suggest a substantial positive effect of market orientation on product innovation performance. Under the condition of incremental innovativeness among the samples, the more innovative the product is, the more improvements in product innovation performance would be achieved. A variety of particular interdepartmental integration mechanisms have been certified to lend more supports to establishing market orientation and improving product innovation performance.

Selection Model of Optional Parts in Suppliers Involved in New Product Development

Quality function deployment (QFD),which can translate efficiently customer requirement (CRs) into technical attributes (TAs),is widely used in new product development (NPD) as an efficient customer-driven approach. After lots of QFD application is applied in manufacturing fields,it was proved that without considering suppliers involved,it is difficult to get precise and satisfying results in each process of QFD,particularly part deployment. The paper will address the issues of a model of optional parts selection in suppliers involved in part deployment process. Further,it has been applied to an ERP system reconstruction and updating problem as an illustration.

New development of whey protein products as nutritional food ingredients

Whey protein products provided ideal ingredients for nutritional food applications.Whey proteins are known to have high nutritional quality due to their high content of essential amino acids,high digestibility and biological value.Research in the past decades has shown that many of the whey protein fractions and peptides derived from them possess various biological activities.The technology developments in the last decade,such as those in the areas of protein fractionation technologies have made industrial scale production of fractionated whey protein products commercially feasible.The development in hydrolysis technology and the peptide analytical capability allowed production of whey protein hydrolysates with designed bioactivity and functionalities.People are continuously finding new biological activities of the various whey protein fractions or their hydrolysis products.Significant amount of research has also been carried out to study the clinical benefits of some of the whey protein fractions and whey protein derived peptides.Examples of these studies will be reviewed and discussed.

Exploring Barriers and Opportunities in Adopting Crowdsourcing Based New Product Development in Manufacturing SMEs

Crowdsourcing is an innovative business practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content or even funds by soliciting contributions from a large group of people （the ＇Crowd＇）. The potential benefits of utilizing crowdsourcing in product design are well-documented, but little research exists on what are the barriers and opportunities in adopting crowdsourcing in new product development （NPD） of manufacturing SMEs. In order to answer the above questions, a Proof of Market study is carried out on crowdsourcing-based product design under an Innovate UK funded Smart project, which aims at identifying the needs, challenges and future development opportunities associated with adopting crowdsourcing strategies for NPD. The research findings from this study are reported here and can be used to guide future development of crowdsourcing-based collaborative design methods and tools and provide some practical references for industry to adopt this new and emerging collaborative design method in their business.

Product development of Baosteel HFW 610 Mill

Baosteel's high-frequency electric resistance welded(HFW) 610 longitudinal seam mill(8 5/8″-24″, the yearly output 300000 t) and UOE 1422 longitudinal submerged arc welding(SAW) mill(20' -56',the yearly output 500000 t) are established in 2005 and 2008,respectively.Product specification covers whole of API 5CT standard and most of API 5L standard,terminating the history of manufacturing the medium and large size pipes at Baosteel.The yearly output increased from 1,200000 t to nearly 2000000 t.HFW 610 mill is oriented at mid size pipes,which are mainly linepipe and welded casing.The designed yearly output of HFW mill is 300000 t,including casing of 90000 t,linepipe of 180000 t,round structural pipe of 15000 t and rectangle structural pipe of 15000 t. The yearly output of oil casing line supporting the welding line is 120000 t,among which including welded casing and seamless casing of 30000 t.Baosteel's HFW 610 longitudinal seam mill was established on October 27,2005. After the equipment trial run In October,2005 - March,2006 and equipment function examination In April,2006 - June,2006,mass production started in July 2006.And in December 2006,monthly designed capacity was achieved,reaching to 30496.644 t in welding pipe and 28 349.939 t in finished pipe.The output of 2006,2007, 2008 and 2009 was 117 067 t,223 554 t,255 791 t,and 204 424 t,with the comprehensive yield ratio 79.4%, 87.8%,90.80%and 91.92%respectively.This study introduces Baosteel HFW 610 Mill which is the world class,energy conservation and environmental protection enterprise,including product orientation,process and new product development.

Focusing on NaiaTM to inspire new product development

Today, with the rapid rise of sustainable consumption concept, the combination of fashion and green will be a new way of product development that meets consumer demand. On July 4th, as one of the important contents of the 2019 China Textile Innovation Conference & Design Forum,“the 4th Member’s Day of Fabrics China Pioneer Plants & Naia^TM Cellulose Acetate Fiber Product Development Forum” were successfully held in Dalang Fashion Town, Shenzhen. With the theme of “Naia^TM cellulose acetate fiber product development”, the forum discussed how to integrate sustainable development concept with fashion trends to enhance the product development level and market competitiveness of Naia? and even the whole eco-textiles in accordance with the consumer awareness and market demand of eco-textiles.

Effective decision-making model for hi-tech new product development

In order to identify the effective decision-making factors at the individual NPD project manager level, a new effective decision-making model has been established by introducing the concept of decision-making effectiveness, analyzing the role of expertise, and identifying the major role of expertise and insight with respect to the interfaces between a new product, an organization, customers, technologies and regulations, for the study of the effective decision-making facilitators and inhibitors for a NPD project. The analysis of the unique task conditions for individual decision-makers shows that perceived complexity, uncertainty and time pressure have their negative effect on the effective decision-making process. It is concluded that the flexible, balanced and appropriate use of rational analysis, common sense and intuition is a key effective decision-making factor, and the psychologically ‘active attitude’ of a manager is also an important factor for successful dealing with the difficult task conditions.

The Relationship between Customer Knowledge Management and Performance of Agricultural Product Innovation

This paper takes an overview of the CKM and the performance of agricultural product innovation from contents of agricultural product innovation and customer knowledge management (CKM) ,the relation between CKM and agricultural product innovation. On the basis of the overview, it builds the theoretical framework of CKM and agricultural product innovation. It points out that enterprises can satisfy demands of customers through acquisition,share,utilization and innovation of customer knowledge,and improve performance of agricultural product innovation through speeding up agricultural product innovation.

An integrated laboratory experiment of realistic diagenesis,perforation and sand production using a large artificial sandstone specimen

Sand production is,a challenging issue in petroleum industry,mainly associated with weak unconsolidated formations.A novel testing procedure and a new apparatus were developed to conduct an integrated experiment of diagenesis,perforation and sand production on a single large cylindrical artificial sandstone specimen,where solid and fluid pressures can be independently controlled such that realistic reservoir historical conditions can be well simulated in the laboratory.Fluid injection can be performed in both radial and vertical directions,where both single-and two-phase flows can be implemented for study of sand production behaviors at different reservoir’s maturity stages.The equipment consists of an intensive instrumentation system to monitor pressures,displacements and material states continuously.The produced sand particles were filtered and monitored in real-time for the study of time-dependent phenomena.The experimental results showed similar patterns to that observed in the field and provided valuable insight for the development of prediction methods for sand production of similar materials.

Development of Educational Programs for System Creators and Business Producers in Future Strategy Design Based on Action Project Group Activities through Industry-University Cooperation

Our Japanese industry-university project group of Aoyama Gakuin University investigated and studied new educational programs to cultivate“future strategy design”human resources over several years.The purpose of this research paper is to describe two types of educational programs.The first program proposes the system creator,which is capable of new product design and innovative management that use advanced technologies such as internet of things(IoT),artificial intelligence(AI),and augmented and virtual reality.The second program proposes the business producer that is capable of platform service business modeling,product development and strategy,and customer service.The characteristics of these programs involve applying new educational methods to combine project-based learning(PBL)and active learning.

新质生产力系统:要素特质、结构承载与功能取向

每次人类社会大变局都蕴含着生产力的巨大革新,世界百年未有之大变局加速演进内在要求孕育形成新质生产力。新质生产力作为生产力发展的质变跃迁,是推动实现高质量发展的动力之源。从系统论视角来看,新质生产力是由相互联系、相互作用的生产力要素、生产力结构、生产力功能构成的“要素—结构—功能”系统。其中,新质生产力要素由新型劳动者、新型劳动对象、新型劳动工具、新型基础设施等构成,新质生产力在结构承载上表现为由新兴产业、未来产业等主导发展形成的现代化产业体系,新质生产力功能则凸显新发展理念、追求实现高质量发展、更好满足人民美好生活需要的价值取向。加快发展新质生产力,应扩大新型要素供给、以科技创新引领现代化产业体系建设、强化新质生产力系统功能取向,通过继续深化改革塑造与新质生产力发展相适应的生产关系。

新发展理念助力新质生产力加快形成:理论逻辑与实现路径

“新质生产力”的提出作为马克思主义中国化的新发展具有重要理论意义和现实意义。新质生产力的提出绝不是对马克思主义历史唯物论生产力概念的否定,而是新时代对生产力概念守正创新的重要发展。在加快形成新质生产力的过程中要坚定不移贯彻新发展理念,将创新理念作为加快形成新质生产力的第一动力,将协调发展理念作为加快形成新质生产力的内在要求,将绿色发展理念作为加快形成新质生产力的重要方向,将开放发展理念作为加快形成新质生产力的有效途径,将共享发展理念作为加快形成新质生产力的本质要求。新时代应坚定地以新发展理念推动新质生产力加快形成,为我国经济高质量发展赋予新动能。

高职院校助力新质生产力高质量发展探究

新质生产力是推动高质量发展的内在要求和重要着力点。高职院校人才培养与新质生产力的内在逻辑关系主要体现在新质生产力促进高职教育系统变革、高职教育是新质生产力形成的必要因子以及高职人才培养与新质生产力高质量发展是双向互动作用关系三个方面。但高职院校助力新质生产力高质量发展面临着宏观层面和微观层面的现实性挑战,制约高职院校助力新质生产力高质量发展目标的达成。针对上述挑战,需要以系统观念为引领,更新高职教育育人理念;拓展高职教育人才培养层次,构建多元化人才培养格局;立足“一带一路”倡议,引导和规范高职教育“出海”行为;树立服务意识,注重人才培养社会效益;多措并举,促进教师教学与科研能力双提高;推进职教招生考试制度改革,消除高职学生层次差异化。

新质生产力驱动高质量发展的逻辑与路径

作为生产力演进过程中的一种新型质态,新质生产力是“创新驱动”与“质量牵引”以及二者协同演化的生产力发展新模式,其基本内涵集中体现为应用新技术、重塑新动能、培育新产业。新质生产力代表着先进生产力的跃迁方向,符合新发展阶段经济高质量发展的内在要求,是推动经济高质量发展的新动力。新质生产力中新技术应用通过技术扩散、结构优化和“创造性破坏”效应,筑牢经济高质量发展的创新底座;新要素培育通过比较优势迭代和价值倍增能级提升,激活经济高质量发展的要素动能;新产业兴起通过技术吸纳、产业链溢出和竞争优势重塑机制,打造经济高质量发展的支撑主体。因此,未来遵循生产力发展的客观规律,需要从强化关键核心技术攻坚突破抓住发展机遇、加速新型数据要素融合渗透转换发展动能、培育战略性新兴产业和未来产业夯实发展基础、优化完善基础设施建设打通发展“动脉”四个维度加快培育和形成新质生产力,为新时期新征程上驱动经济高质量发展提供有力支撑。