The Product Wheel Handbook is a guide to the Product Wheel design process which has been used successfully by companies like Exxon Mobil and DuPont.  

What does this book cover?

The Product Wheel Handbook: Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations looks at the PW design process’ ability to minimise changeover costs, free up more of your organisation’s capacity and generally optimise your design processes. It includes several real-world examples of product wheels in use, as well as a very detailed case study.

The Product Wheel Handbook will give its readers a much deeper and more nuanced understanding of:

• The steps you’ll need to take before you can implement a ‘product wheel’
• What changes you’ll need to make to your manufacturing metrics to ensure that they don’t interfere with effective use of your product wheel
• How you can develop the kind of workplace culture that can really take advantage of the PW design process

About the Authors

Jennifer S King has worked in operations analysis and research with the US Department of Defense and several large government contractors. She has written several textbooks as part of ExploreLearning. Peter L King runs the Lean Dynamics LLC consulting firm. He worked at DuPont for more than 4 decades as well as the Lean Center of Competency.

The Product Wheel Handbook is a great way to improve your product development process with a disciplined structure.