Lawrence D. Miles

Thinkers1904 to 1985Engineer

Works

  • Techniques of Value Analysis and Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1961

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A General Electric engineer who in 1947 devised value analysis, the origin of value engineering. Its core move is to describe each part of a product by the function it performs, in a verb and a noun, and then to look for the lowest-cost way to perform that function reliably.

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