Lean Product Development
Getting to market with a product or service that provides excellent value to the customer is the hallmark or successful companies. These endeavors are not accidental or without planning and forethought. Product success is a function of a great idea and hard work at making the idea come to life. Developing products and services that exceed expectations of customers leads to market leadership and domination.
Product Development is a formal process used to bring a product or service from an obscure idea to a successful product. The primary purpose of having a process is to carefully consider many factors which will have an impact on success. Factors such as cost, price points, quality expectations, marketability, and function are carefully considered and actioned with the customer’s ultimate satisfaction in mind. Due to the complexity and time constraints, product development has become time consuming with many opportunities for error and ultimately failure.
Lean Product Development provides a shorter, but more intense path to success for products and processes under development. Using discipline, process, quality and reliability tools, measuring risk as a substitute for potential failure, and working in a collaborative team, Lean Product Development provides a means to get to market faster with a better product. The roadmap for increased velocity to market, lower risk, and higher customer satisfaction includes processes such as Supply Chain Management, and APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) and tools such as Quality Function Deployment (QFD), FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis), DFM/A (Design for Manufacturing and Assembly), and DVP&R (Design Verification Plan and Report).
The QAI Lean Product Development process integrates quality and engineering into program and project management. QAI becomes part of your team at all stages of our 7 stage gate Lean Product Development process.
Our Gateways are as follows:
- Idea creation and research
- Planning and Definition
- Product Design and Development
- Process/Delivery Design and Development
- Process/Delivery Validation
- Feedback and Legacy
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