Our client wanted to aggressively improve its new product development process. The goals were to improve product reliability while developing new products more quickly, efficiently, and at lower cost.
Consulting Services
ITI was asked to assist with the program. ITI provides a full spectrum of new
product development consulting services.
This program tapped ITI's expertise in the following areas:
Concurrent Product / Manufacturing Process Development (CPPD®) to improve
efficiency
Systems Engineering / Analsys Leads Design (SE/ALD™) for simulation-led
development
Reliability Growth and Design for "X" (DFX) to enhance product quality,
reliability, and performance
Results
43% Time Savings
42% Cost Reduction
56% More Reliable
As expected the client achieved breakthrough levels of improvement in the
following areas:
Time to Market slashed from 48 to 27 months
Product Cost reduced by 42%
Engineering Changes reduced by 80%
Part Count reduced by 51%
Product reliability increased by 56%
Introduced globally managed collaborative environment, including parts
reduction tracking