Product Design and Development

November 25, 2024 sustainableiise Product Design and Development

Product Design and Development is the efficient and effective generation anddevelopment of ideas through a process that leads to new products. From an industrialengineering knowledge view, it is the processes and analysis employed supportingefficient decision-making

Designing a collaborative online transportation platform for sustainable regional food distribution

April 4, 2024 sustainableiise Agriculture, Goal 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts, Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, Goal 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation, Information Engineering, Operations Research & Analysis, Product Design and Development, Transportation and Warehousing

Abstract: Regional food systems offer the potential to improve agricultural sustainability and community resilience. However, regional farmers must find ways of expanding their market reach to a larger number of buyers to ensure the survival

Using Toyota Kata to Help Local Food Banks with Hugh Alley

November 2, 2021 sustainableiise Design and Manufacturing Engineering, Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere, Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, Lean / Six Sigma, Non-Profit/Non-Governmental Organizations, Product Design and Development

Our guest is Hugh Alley, an experienced lean practitioner and industrial engineer, who has experience with the Toyota Kata method of improvement. He has recently applied this approach to a nonprofit food bank in Vancouver,