Consulting Services
The process of achieving product development excellence is an exciting journey for companies that want to reach new levels of profitability and achieve a clear and distinct competitive advantage. Once the decision is made to undertake this journey, it is important that the company work with an organization that can help it achieve its goals quickly and cost effectively.
Why Partner With Us?
Accelerated Product Development’s practical, hands-on approach of combining Lean and Six Sigma principles for improving product development - represented as the
Accelerated Product Development System
- is the key to our success. Our experience, based on direct implementation, has a proven track record of achieving dramatic improvement across numerous industries. Examples of our results in partnering with companies include:
- Implementation of a new product development process resulting in a 61% cycle time reduction and $9M annual cost savings through a product reuse and part standardization approach.
- Established workflow by implementing a new process for the disposition of engineering drawing change requests. New process reduced WIP by 85%, reduced cycle time by 90%, and saved $6M annually in processing costs.
- Developed a new process to consolidate a company’s supply base through a part family implementation strategy. Resulted in a 70% reduction in suppliers and $13.1M annual cost savings.
- Assisted company in developing lean manufacturing cells structured around product families. Resulted in a 30% reduction in inventory and a 40% reduction in cycle time.
Our approach, experience, and record of success distinguish us in the industry and are reasons why you should consider partnering with APD for achieving your product development goals.
Our consulting services are represented by the ten components of the Accelerated Product Development System:
• Product Development Baseline Assessment
• Lean Product Development Principles
• Resource and Workload Management
• Reuse Concepts
• Design Strategy
• Knowledge Management
• Manufacturing and Supply Chain Integration
• Manufacturing Process Control
• Design for Six Sigma
• Cell Design for Product Development
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