"The QR team has been absolutely pivotal in making this happen."
Body Interior program lead, global OEM
The mission:
Centralize planning, input, quality assurance and release of product data to facilitate a global OEM’s engineers spend more than the existing 40 percent of their time engineering.
PDM in action: centralized engineering data management
Program integration
- Part-level cost and weight tracking.
- BoM validation and prototype order.
- Regular governance established to find complete program bottlenecks and priority areas.
- Launch quality tracking and build support.
Engineering support
- Release & Purchase team:
- Creating and maturing product BoM.
- Targets agreed with Engineering.
- Structuring Production BoM.
- Change management.
- Working with wider supply base to author deviation documentation.
Time to engineer
Engineering resource
Improved change throughput
Release quality
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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