A STUDY ON GRASPING THE FLOW OF INFORMATION IN INDIRECT OPERATIONS

Abstract

Nowadays, manufacturing companies have been competing for new product development under the unstoppable demands of the global market. Most of the manufacturing companies active today have shortened their product development period as well. This is especially true in the department of research and development, where patents are required for the development of new products and technologies. This study focus on the indirect operations defined by the manufacturing companies’ flow of information, here understood as the immaterial part of the operations and their product development cycle. As such, we have applied process analysis as its method study considering its main characteristic, which is determined by its simple rule that separates products from humans.