3P Lean Design
A Practitioner's Guide to Production, Preparation and Process
Allan R. Coletta
Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, Bear, Delaware, USA
ISBN: 978-1-4398-7911-5, February 2012, 175 pp., Soft Cover
Written from an operations perspective, this book presents a systematic process for
developing new products co-currently with new operations in a way that fosters
innovation along with the collaborative input of process stakeholders. It explains
how the process works and why it works, enabling first-timers to be successful right
out of the gate. The text also challenges those experienced with 3P to consider
Evergreen 3P, a process for applying 3P to small-scale design projects for similar
benefits. It covers process evaluation criteria, selection of alternatives, and construction
of prototypes.