"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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