Tvärfunktionell produktutveckling
- En utredning på Scania om samverkan mellan konstruktörer och produktsamordnare
The role distribution between designers and product coordinators and the system support between these roles are adapted according to the method of working that product models primarily are created for production and after sales market. At the same time models are also created to support a cross-functional way of working. This means that product structures exists on paper and as CAD-models before they are created in Scanias PDM-system environment which leads to unnecessary work and to information not being shared as early as it should be possible.A theoretical study has been performed with the purpose of understanding the problems and to create a foundation for improvement suggestions. Representatives from both roles have been interviewed together with other individuals with insight in the collaboration. A minor study concerning the roles of interests? collaboration at Volvo CC was also performed to be able to relate the study to another company. The interviews and theory was reworked and analyzed in several steps with the purpose to strengthen the extent of the study.In this report the bottlenecks and problems that have been identified in the study are presented together with other recognized improvement areas. A model which describes a general workflow pattern has been created together with a proposal of how a future workflow could be designed.Based on the analysis, an establishment of a cross-functional improvement group with representatives from all affected parts of the collaboration is recommended. This study could be used by the improvement group as a springboard and should evolve the suggested improvement areas suggested in the chapter conclusions and recommendations. Identified areas that need attention are divided under the areas redistribution of assignments, increased understanding, improvement of IT-support and cross-functional work.