"An unplanned launch delay costs £40 million per day."
Senior program stakeholder, large OEM
The mission:
Maintain BoM completeness and accuracy between design release and initial build to avoid £40m per day cost of unplanned launch delays.
PDM in action: BoM health and validation
A specialist team of expert BoM analysts completing final validation on the production Bill of Material prior to final launch readiness:
- Created rapid release process to expedite BoM fixes and finance calculations, drastically reducing change throughput time whilst ensuring change data quality.
- Owned authoring and approval of BoM fixes, ensuring engineers could focus on launch and spend more time on engineering activities.
- Developed a unique toolset and specialist feature complexity knowledge to drive consistent and accurate information across multiple programs.
- Checked service attribute elements in parallel to ensure a correct SBoM ahead of launch. Rectifying elements often incorrectly applied by product development engineering was key to maximising on-the-road time for Ford customers.
BoM issues resolved
BoM issue resolution time
Launch delay cost
Direct cost saved
Engagement cost
Quality read
A data-driven path to better NPD
Drawing on two decades in automotive, but equally applicable to any complex engineering program, this primer lays out how data-driven organizations can enjoy substantial engineering efficiency gains to mitigate current skill shortages and accelerate complex program delivery.
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