| Product Life Cycle
Stage gates and collaboration within the project team
Project management, roles and responsibilities and control systems
End of life considerations, costs of re-tooling, etc. |
| Product Portfolio and Strategy Definition of the product platform, design re-use, and life cycle definition
Financial implications of development strategy – investment vs. return
Identify the right product, at the right volume, in the right timeframe |
| Business Process Transformation Provide analytical insight into a complex evolving structures
Enable predictive analysis based on explicit rules and discernable past trends
Address localization issues by normalizing heterogeneous aspects of the model |
| Secure Collaboration
Partner selection and relationship definition
Protocols, business integration, and security management |
| Innovation and IP IP management and leverage
Define a culture of collaboration and innovation |
| Time to Market (or Closure) Cycle Time Improvements - up to 50%
Performance to Schedule - 95% (up from an industry average of 50-60% |
| Costs ROI Typically Realized in 12-18 Months
Better use of engineering capacity |
| Quality ( First Pass Yield out of Engineering)
First Pass Yield - up to 90% (up from as low as 10%)
Reduction in Number of ECO's - up to 25% (Cycle Time - 60% Reduction)
Manufacturing Scrap and Rework Reduction - up to 15% |
| Elimination of Rework and Redundancy NVA % Reduction - up to 60%
Reduction of New Part Number Introductions - up to 10%
Reduction of New Part Number Introduction Costs - up to 20% |
