Product development-a changing paradigm
The days of large corporate laboratories with tremendous human and equipment resources developing several new alloys/products a year,have long gone.In these earlier times,a scatter-gun approach to product development was often employed which lead to inventors developing alloys with interesting properties first and looking for an application afterwards.In recent years,most metals companies have learnt to live with much leaner research & development (R & D)Organizations during a time when greater emphasis has been on a much needed drive for operational excellence.The challenge for technical leaders has been to keep their organizations relevant and motivated in the face of this change and indeed to embrace it and use it to evolve into more focused,targeted R & D.This has involved the use of computer modeling and other tools to accelerate the development cycle and also building key partnerships and collaborations with customers,research institutes and sometimes even competitors to enable targeted product development which is aimed at fulfilling specific needs in an industry.This approach requires a deep understanding and knowledge of the technologies and challenges facing these industries and an ability to fast-track commercial acceptance of new products.This paper will talk about some of these challenges and give specific examples of recent new developments from special metals such as INCOLOY(R)alloy 945,INCOLOY(R)alloys 864 and 865 and INCONEL(R)alloy 740 which illustrate our approach.
product development R & D computer modeling INCOLOY(R) INCONEL(R) MONEL(R)
Shailesh J Patel
Special Metals Corporation,3200 Riverside Drive,Huntington,WV 25705,USA
国际会议
上海
英文
789-793
2008-09-26（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）