TITLE:
Autonomous Vehicle Design in Lean Product Development Processes for Value Stream Map
AUTHORS:
Fuat Ali Paker
KEYWORDS:
Automotive Industry, Lean Product Development, Design Management, Autonomous Vehicle Design, Value Stream Map
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Transportation Technologies,
Vol.12 No.4,
September
30,
2022
ABSTRACT: The
global automotive industry is giving a difficult and common test in order to
create advanced life models in the near future plans or scenarios that include
current autonomous vehicle technologies. Therefore, the main purpose of the
research is to comparatively evaluate the impact of autonomous vehicle
technologies, which are newly included in the automotive manufacturing industry under sustainable competition, on lean
product development processes, value
acquisition and preservation, in different organizational structures in the approach. Although mergers or brand acquisitions in the global automotive
industry create joint R & D (Research Development) or joint new P & D
(Product Development) process structures for the development of autonomous
vehicle technologies, heavy competition continues in the market. These new
processes create different needs for the merger and partnership of the renewed
traffic infrastructures under national and international regulations, and for
the implementation of the new autonomous life model. Firm and brand marriages,
mergers or acquisitions in today’s automotive industry have ensured the high
diffusion of lean product development processes under the stream of value
creation or preservation carried out specific to the company under competition.
Brand mergers in automotive industry companies struggling to survive under high
competition create new work disciplines, professions, and engineering flow
steps in lean product development processes. However, lean product development
processes driven by technological innovation under simplification have resulted
in the integration of parts and systems within the autonomous vehicle design
structure, as well as creating new interdisciplinary value streams or different
stakeholders. Therefore, the research revealed the significant effects of lean
product development processes on the value stream in the automotive industry,
on the mixed and lean product development process structure formed by new or
existing vehicle systems (conventional vehicle) under the penetration of each
existing and new discipline. This research
compares the efficient operation steps of the process stakeholders in
the autonomous vehicle design parts or systems containing innovation and new
technology together with the value stream in the lean product development
process, and the new process stakeholder’s business-oriented global and local
automotive industry companies. New autonomous vehicle technologies, together
with their unique software, hardware and development analysis, have been
involved in the lean product development process with their interdisciplinary
studies or expertise. Therefore, the study firstly focused on the technologies
in environmental use together with the new basic features of autonomous
vehicles, and then examined in depth the new or existing disciplines and interdisciplinary basic structure that
these innovations affect under the value stream in the lean product
development process. In addition, micro-level results and recommendations were
shared, shedding light on how autonomous vehicle levels will create changes in
the new product development process.