Product Design and Development – Design Management

‘Leanness’ and Agile systems are not just for production processes. At the same time they affect Product Design and Development. Our senior consultants can help your organisation in improving Design Management achieving objectives such as:

• Design time and Time-to-market reduction
• Standardization of BOMs
• Design more ‘robust’
• Reduction of problems such as defectiveness or design changes once production is launched
• Developing of creativity for innovation and inventive design and problem solving
• A better interface with production machines and assembly lines

For achieving the above objectives we typically employ tools and methodologies such as:

• Lean office for Design Management (Lean Engineering) for reducing time and wastes in general
• Project Management for the time framework of the design
• SCRUM organisation for better managing day-by-day changes during the stages of the design
• Variety Reduction Programs for BOMs
• DFx (Design For Cost, Design For Manufacturing, Design for Assembly, Design for Maintainability)
• DFSS (Design For Six Sigma)
• TRIZ (Theory of inventive problem solving)
• APQP and PPAP processes