... Product and Cycle- Time Excellence, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, 19 92. Miyakawa, S., Ohashi, T., and Iwata, M., The Hitachi new assemblability evalua-tion method (AEM), Transactions of the ... subproblems, and thus becomes an approach to the management of the ever-greater complexity of design (Kusiak and Larson, 19 95). Furthermore, the study of individual design tasks can be an effective approach ... 17 12722_C007_r02.indd 17 1 11 /30/2005 1: 46:29 PM 11/ 30/2005 1: 46:29 PM© 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC While this latter approach has already been discussed in Chapter 3, the fi rst 17 0 Product Design for...