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Why: We want to increase our competitive edge in developing and producing so that we can stay relevant in years to come.
Reduce the time-to-market while keeping customer requirements in tact.
In a flash, here is how you do it!
Table of Contents
In Short
As a manufacturing company, we want to solve the following problems.
- Shorter product life cycles
- Increased market volatility
- Production cost pressure
Sequential but lean dev&production processes will not suffice.
1. Do It in Parallel
Using a highly iterative and integrated product and production process development (HIP3D) approach, you will benefit from a shorter time-to-market by developing products in parallel with the production system at a minimum cost with customers at its center.
Therefore, requirements for future industrialization are
- Enable parallel development
- Speed to agile iterative method
- Collaboration interdisciplinary
2. Process
Below is a graphic shows the interaction between prototyping and optimizing the production system.
The characteristics of this method
- Normative orientation
- Strategic aligned
- Operational viable
3. Investment Decision
Series production is prepared based on
- Product maturity
- Production degree of freedom
The risk is managed at each investment decision by balancing between product maturity and a production degree of freedom.
Conclusion
Take one step further from agile and lean. Now, we will do both product development and production preparation in parallel.
This will, of course, save both time and cost. The question is whether the company has such agile teams that would allow such collaboration.
Reference
Wlecke, S., Gützlaff, A., Schmitz, S., Mehler, J., Wutzow, K. U., Hermann, A., Schuh, G., Behrens, B.-A., Brosius, A., Drossel, W.-G., Hintze, W., Ihlenfeldt, S., & Nyhuis, P. (2021). Reducing Time-To-Market in the Highly Iterative and Integrated Product and Production Process Development (HIP3D). 601–609.