由於產業競爭全球化之環境下，縮短產品的開發時間已成為伺服器產業重要的競爭條件之一，因此企業之間研發合作就變得很重要。而在協同產品開發之情況下，企業該如何對於研發成員（包含顧客與供應商）間之流程與資訊上作整合，以期能快速回應客戶及競爭者，更是實務上的重要課題。
縮短新產品開發時間，遂成為所欲追求之研究課題。本研究以 IDEF0 方法來分析 F公司的伺服器產品研發流程，將整個產品研發流程可分為五個階段，首先是產品構想規劃階段、第二階段則是設計
階段、第三階段則是樣品試作階段、第四階段為工程試作階段、第五階段則是試產階段。期使公司員工皆能對其角色定位有清楚的認知，以增進各部門間的溝通協調、減少工程設計變更（Engineer Change Notes：ECN）次數、縮短產品開發上市時間、減少產品後續維護費用，並使各部門資源得以妥善運用以團隊方式全盤考量各流程可能發生的問題，並在設計階段即將問題解決。藉以控制及改善新產品研發流程，提昇 F 公司市場競爭力。

Nowadays it’s a global competition environment. For Server industry, it’s very important and more competitive to shorten product development cycle time. Therefore, enterprises cooperation becomes very critical. Under such condition, there is a very practical and important lesson about how enterprises combine development process and information for R&D member (including customer and supplier) and expect to efficiently feedback to our customer and competitor.

Because of reason above, I choose my research topic-shortening new product development cycle time. At last, I would like to use IDEF0 to analyze F Company’s R&D development process for Server product. The process can be devised to total 5 phases. First, it’s product concept & planning phase. The 22d phase is design phase. The 3rd phase is mock-up and sampling. The 4th phase is engineering trial, and the 5th phase is trial run.

F Company expects to ensure all employees having very clear idea about their role and work position and improve negotiation capability between different departments. Also, by this good communication skill, F Company expects to reduce design change (such as ECN & ECO), shorten product development cycle time, lower maintenance fee, and arrange departments’ resource well.

As a team, F Company overall considers each possible issue which may occur in every process phase, and try to solve the issue during design phase. Based on this, it can control and improve new product design and development process and enhance F company competitiveness in marketing.

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