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Product Analysis

A lean product is one with minimum number of parts, requires minimum number of manufacturing processes, requires minimum number of inspections and easy to recycle, reuse, or remanufacture. Product must be robust (ratio of sigma to average) with respect to functions it is intended to perform.

There are several tools to do this analysis: QFD, value engineering, part count reduction, elimination of fasteners, design for manufacturing, design for assembly, design for inspection, design for transportation, TRIZ, aesthetics (by applying the science of beauty), target costing, design to cost, axiomatic design, modularity, robust design, design of experiments, Taguchi's loss function, analytic heirarchy process, design for six-sigma, and reliability analysis.   

What We Can Do?

The following are general steps of our methodology.
  1. We will study your products
  2. Apply value engineering to develop a functional map
  3. Select right product features for product differentiation
  4. Eliminate parts or reduce part-count without affecting functionality
  5. Reduce weight, size, and check tolerances of every spec, do design audit
  6. Apply axiomatic design to achieve uncoupled design (CR-FR-DP-PV Process)
  7. Reduce the number of manufacturing processes, inspections required
  8. Apply modularity to reduce the manufacturing lead time
  9. Design the product to achieve "one-piece-flow" in production on the U-lines
  10. Apply "assembly line balancing" and redesign the product, if required
  11.  Conduct reliability study to achieve robust design

Design Process Analysis

What We Can Do?
A lean product design process is one that takes minimum time for "concept-to-launch". The percentage of value addition time in the entire design process is very less. There are many tools to quicken the product design process. Some of which are: D-VAT analysis, design structure matrix, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, concurrent engineering, critical chain project management (CCPM), and collaborative design platforms. 
The following are general steps of our methodology.
  1. We will study and map your product design process
  2. Apply D-VAT tool to know value-addition time versus non-value addition time
  3. Analyze feedback loops
  4. Analyze how engineers talk to one another
  5.  Develop strategies to reduce the "non-value addition time" in the design process
  6. Analyzing "right time to market"
  7. Analyzing "right product cost"
  8. Apply appropriate tools to compress "concept-to-launch" time