Challenges
Today’s product development environment is filled with external business pressures and internal development challenges.
Market demand is for lower cost and feature rich products. Products and processes are more complex and required integrated design practices. Regulatory compliance pressures are increasing. Design changes occur frequently. Design for manufacturability is required for successful manufacturing. Work force attrition is high. Lack of visibility of decisions impacting risk, quality and delivery and costs undermine margins.
Development teams need effective underlying design, engineering, project management and production launch processes and sustaining systems to coordinate across multi-disciplines design, engineering and manufacturing teams, as well as suppliers.
Solutions
The Mervyn Group incorporates a fully integrated and optimized multi-disciplinary approach to deliver the product to market faster, and meet cost, quality and revenue targets, as well as shorten the development cycle to address these challenges.
Services
The Mervyn Group New Product Introduction Services include:
- Research and Development controls
- Engineering design requirements, controls, DfX (design for parts/ supply chain, manufacture, test, service, repair)
- Design risk assessment and management
- Supplier or subcontractor identification, qualification and controls
- Product certifications
- Regulatory compliance
- Prototype build planning and management
- Verification, test, and validation
- Production launch planning and management
- Optimizing sustaining manufacturing using modeling
- Contract manufacturer qualification and selection
- Supplier qualification and partnering
- Purchasing strategies and tactics
- Budgeting and costing for prototype, launch and production
Our experience includes research and development, mechanical, electrical, materials and software firmware engineering.
We assist product owners and OEMs in selecting the design engineering and/ or manufacturing firm and managing projects by
- Developing or responding to requirements, the scope of work, and request for quote,
- Streamlining existing new product introduction systems,
- Establishing and implementing design and engineering and project management systems, and
- Managing the project to ensure technical and budgetary constraints and commitments are met, changed is planned and managed.
Benefits
Our approach ensures
- Accurate and complete requirements and specifications and scopes of work and budgets are developed.
- Process and product introduction are streamlined to optimize profitability, quality and on time delivery.
- A complete and accurate design is delivered on time and budget, that meet the customer and regulatory requirements.
- Production launch is planned and managed to ensure the product is on time and budget and meets the technical, quality and regulatory requirements.
- Manufacturing systems, infrastructure and processes are optimized to minimize cost and improve quality and delivery.
