Reading Comprehension (RC) | Manufacturing technicians and engineers favor product teardowns, the

[align=justify][box_out][box_in] Manufacturing technicians and engineers favor product teardowns, the time-honored practice of dismantling products-their own firm's and its competitors'-to spark fresh thinking. Yet few manufacturers get the full value that teardowns afford. Many senior executives discourage the practice, and by viewing teardowns as unsupervised exercises for engineers or cost-cutting tactics for the purchasing department, they retard creativity and leave the ideas generated in teardowns unexplored.

Not so for a medical products company that used teardowns to improve its electronic medical device. To foster new ideas, the company's senior executives invited employees from the purchasing, marketing, engineering, and sales departments to compare their product to rival products. Seeing the products together allowed the purchasing department to quickly identify simple design changes that, while invisible to customers, significantly lowered manufacturing costs.

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