Product Development Assessment

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Product Development Assessment

Product Development Assessment (PDA) methodology is used to benchmark and assess your organization's development process against 260 best practices for product development. This assessment serves as a benchmark and identifies the highest impact opportunities for further improvement. The assessment is typically one to three weeks depending upon the organization's size and the complexity of the development process. Prior to conducting the assessment, we would review your organization chart and any other descriptive material you provide and discuss your product development environment by phone. Based on this, we would typically conduct four to ten days of interviews, walk-throughs, and process reviews. Twenty-eight product development dimensions are addressed:

Business and Product Strategy

Product and Pipeline Management

Technology Management

Management and Leadership

Early Involvement

Product Development Teams

Organizational Environment

Process Management

Process Improvement

Understanding the Customer

Requirements and Specifications Management

Development Process Integration

Supplier/Subcontractor Integration

Product Launch

Configuration Management

Design Assurance

Project & Resource Management

Design for Manufacturability

Product Cost Management

Robust Design

Integrated Test Design and Program

Design for Operation and Support

Product Data

Design Automation

Simulation and Analysis

Computer-Aided Manufacturing

Support Technology

Knowledge Management

At the conclusion of this review, we will sit down with you and other members of your management team to offer specific recommendations as well as debrief you using our assessment forms. Where necessary, we would explain certain IPD concepts to your management team so that they would understand why a recommended improvement was appropriate. We can discuss priorities based on gap analysis (weak rating versus a strong importance of the dimension), dimensions that seem out of balance, and our experience. We can then help develop a preliminary action plan to close the gap and improve in areas related to the company's critical success factors. We will leave a copy of our Product Development Best Practices and Assessment software with you so that you can perform on-going self-assessments in the future. Training in this benchmarking and assessment methodology is also available.

This feedback identifies specific opportunities to improve the product development process, yielding significant reductions in development/modification costs, product costs, and engineering changes as well as improved product quality and time-to-market. This assessment and the subsequent improvement efforts can pay for themselves many times over.

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