Lean Product Development

Post date: Oct 15, 2009 6:51:36 AM

PROBLEM: Late deliveries were the norm in this Automotive sector Technical Centre. Late designs led to dissatisfied O.E.M. customers, botched production launches with poor product quality, over budget production costs and disorganized supply chains.

SOLUTION: Lean "Business Excellence" principles were applied to identify and structure the division's product development processes. Creative and nebulous product development activity was re-designed "waste free" to enable laminar work flow to eliminate"looping" back to rework tasks.

RESULTS:  Product development times were reduced by 30% and productivity was improved by over 40%. Product Launches became flawless and resources previously deployed "trouble shooting" production ramp up issues were deployed to pursue new business to strengthen the bottom line.