COMPUTER AIDED VALUE MANAGEMENT: IMPROVING THE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT BY VALUE MANAGEMENT

摘要

Market-oriented product development is an important task to fulfill the company objectives of gaining highest possible returns and profits from product selling. Successful products must match the needs of the customer and must have high economic efficiency during the product life cycle, i. e. in production and product use. The following article describes value management methods for developing successful products. To support the value management process more effectively, we developed a Computer Aided Value Management System. It includes tools to rationalize several tasks of the Value Management process and a database to hold, select, consolidate and analyze the requested data.