Quality Support for the Development Process of Newspaper Products

A newspaper has an extremely modular product structure, which permits it to be developed in parallel. Each module of the newspaper is quality independent of the other. In this study we analyzed the product development process of two different newspaper products with regard to the consequences of inexplicit work methods. The results imply that an already short production lead-time could be further reduced, if the product is fully evaluated and tested during the product development process. High product variety could be achieved if development teams of future newspaper products look beyond present constraints and instead design products that could fit different manufacturing processes and distribution channels.