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Lean can improve engineering efficiency and reduce product development cycle times, resulting in extra product development capacity that you didn’t know you had. While not an unknown concept, many struggle to understand and integrate the full capability of Lean in the Product Development Process. In order to implement Lean successfully, experts tell us it’s essential to address the 7 areas of waste in product development: Overproducing, Waiting, Conveyance, Inventory, Processing, Motion, & Correction.
Most people understand these areas of waste in terms of manufacturing. But how do they relate to Product Development? These terms are not commonly associated with Engineering which adds to the difficulty many people have in applying lean to product development. To simplify, Dassault Systèmes identifies waste in the following areas:
When these areas contain activities that do not add value for your customer, then they contain waste.
Dassault Systèmes offers a wide array of PLM options to address the waste in your product development processes. These PLM solutions have provided significant savings to our customers while addressing some of their more serious business issues:
- Maximize Design Abilities - Reduce design manpower requirements by 70, 80, even 95 percent while ensuring that the design process takes full advantage of the designs, standards and corporate intellectual property that defines your company.
- Protect & Control Intellectual Property – keep intellectual property safe while optimizing the use of corporate knowledge, improving collaboration & reducing wasteful search time
- Reduce the Risk of Product Failures - identify the best innovative options to meet and exceed customers’ expectations and dramatically reduce the risk of product failures
- Ensure Manufacturability of Designs - define, monitor and control the manufacturing process and expand Lean Product Development savings; improve product manufacturability and reduce the cost of prototypes
- Supplement Design Capacity to meet Project Needs - increase design & analysis capacity while protecting vital intellectual property
In some cases, application of Lean Principles has provided a 60-70% reduction in product development time which allows the company to reduce development costs and improve time to market¹. Our customers have experienced this magnitude of benefit and more through the application of Lean via Dassault Systèmes’ V5 PLM Solutions for Lean Product Development.
Eliminating costs, reducing time to market and designing products that meet or exceed your customers’ needs is the means to creating a lasting competitive advantage – and building Competitive Durability.
Imagine what a reduction in development time from 20 man days to 1 could mean. Or, reducing response time to Requests for Quote by 50%. Or a 25% design time savings multiplied by 1000 parts. These are real savings that Dassault Systèmes customers have realized through the application of Lean Principles via PLM V5 Solutions.
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To learn more about the principles of Lean Engineering:
 
¹ Clifford Fiore, Accelerated Product Development, Productivity Press, New York, 2005
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