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Companies are always looking to new disciplines to improve their product development processes. Today, practices such as Engineering Productivity and Lean Product Design are no longer confined to the world of manufacturing and operations. Both disciplines focus on eliminating waste and inefficiencies in all forms.
Recently, companies have begun to apply these principles to new product development processes and achieved impressive results. By applying lean product design, engineering productivity principles, and continuous process improvements, some companies have been able to attain:
Up to a 90% reduction in process cycle times
More than 80% reduction in queues
Up to a 95% reduction in non-value added activities
However, manufacturing best practices do not always exactly align to typical steps in the product development process. For example, in product development, the definition of “waste” is oftentimes hard to decipher. It may be difficult to understand what constitutes a wasted idea or a wasted prototype. Also, in manufacturing, it is easy to apply a lean design to repetitive operations, but how does this relate to product development where fewer activities are repetitive?
Kalypso’s expert team can help you to determine how to best apply these principles to your organization. Our consultants are well-versed in these management disciplines and can help you to perform a preliminary assessment of your product development processes against the standards of lean design and engineering productivity. Working with executive management, we can help you decide how to:
Implement principles and process changes to your existing system
Create clear measurement and project review processes
Construct value stream maps to evaluate value- and non-value-added activities
Involve suppliers and partners earlier in the development cycle to improve collaboration
Identify future opportunities for continuous process improvements
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