How Long Should R&D Take?
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How long does it take to bring a new product to market?
As Lean Consultants, we work with across all business sectors to analyse information flow and product flow as a series of processes.
Each step has to be finely tuned to create frictionless transfer, reducing the opportunity for error and shortening the overall lead time.
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Research and Development in most companies spans a complex series of interconnected processes. In our experience, re-work, downtime, design loops and supplier delays all contribute to adding friction to the overall process and lead to extended lead times.
Whether it’s ensuring a tighter specification at client briefing, applying rigid design for manufacture criteria or ramping up from pilot to series production, Lean principles apply. For example, scheduling regular Go / No-Go review sessions during Concept Development ensures effort is best channelled towards the products most likely to be successful. Meanwhile scaling up from pilot production to volume manufacture requires a systematic approach to component sourcing, sub-assembly build steps, line feed, manufacturing layout – all of which are text book Lean principles.
Tim Scurlock, Founder of Applied Lean Consulting will be sharing experience of working with R&D teams and will demonstrate how the application of Lean principles can be used to shorten lead time, reduce ambiguity to create a more effective Research and Development process.
Contact us at ALC for more details on how you can ijmprove getting getting your product(s) to market.
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