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January 2005

For Immediate Release

New Book Reveals Key Elements For Improving Product Development Process

New York…In the current high-stakes business environment, a company's profitability lies in its ability to provide products to the marketplace quickly and cost-effectively. Successful companies now respond by looking beyond the factory floor to make improvements and maintain a competitive advantage.

Accelerated Product Development — Combining Lean and Six Sigma for Peak Performance, by Clifford Fiore, is the first book coupling the proven concepts of Lean and Six Sigma with engineering processes dealing with product development outside the shop floor. The text is based on proven strategies and methodologies that enable a company to significantly reduce the time necessary to develop new products, dramatically reduce product cost, improve product quality and combat problems inherent to the product development process. Companies that have applied these concepts have achieved dramatic results — reductions of 60-70% in product development cycle times have been achieved.

Highlights include:

• Material presented in a sequence, creating a "roadmap" for implementation that will maximize the benefits for a company
• Key concepts outlined in different chapters
• Strategies supported by case studies and examples that the reader can easily relate to and understand
• A glossary of key terms
• Reliable reference material that practitioners will want to retain and use periodically

Business, engineering leaders and practitioners of product development, engineering and supply chain will find Accelerated Product Development invaluable. The book is also aimed towards vice presidents and supply chain managers.

List price is $45.00. Complimentary review copies are available to media contacts by calling (212) 216-7865 or by e-mailing: leon.carter@taylorandfrancis.com.

For more information on Accelerated Product Development , or any of Productivity Press’ other titles, call 1 (888) 319-5852 or email info@productivitypress.com.

About the Author

Clifford Fiore is a certified black belt and lean expert. Employed by Honeywell International for the past 18 years, he is an industry leader in implementing concepts that reduce product cost and development cycle times. Accelerated Product Development is an extension of his first book, Lean Strategies for Product Development: Achieving Breakthrough Performance in Bringing Product to Market. Fiore has an MBA in Technology Management and a senior level certification from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in Geometric Dimensioning Tolerencing.

About Productivity Press

Founded to provide world-class guidance for every level of an organization, Productivity Press is unrivaled in publishing high-quality material on lean manufacturing and business improvement.  Our books, learning tools and newsletter, Lean Manufacturing Advisor, are designed to help educate and support organizations in their efforts to implement the advanced management and manufacturing methodologies required to compete in today’s global business environment.