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New Product Development

New Product Development  (NPD) is a structured and proven approach of developing and launching new products and services in the market  “first time right” .  Our approach for New Product Development spans from understanding the needs of the market to designing suitable processes and the structure, to successful launching for targeted revenues. Crashing  “time to market” is the key driver for the New Product Development process. New Product Development:  Training and consultancy to clients to develop new products and variants of the existing products using concurrent engineering and scientific techniques to understand and meet customer requirements with greater reliability, while reducing development cycle time, cost and errors at early stages. Understanding customer requirements and effective utilization of QFD for deployment at various stages of New Product Development. Good New Product Development process: Requires upfront Voice of t...

The Importance Of Data Collection For The Six Sigma DMAIC Approach

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Six Sigma aims at achieving innovative improvement by reducing variation and defects; the most popularly used approach being the DMAIC model. DMAIC stands for Define – Measure – Analyze – Improve – Control. Define  – This involves identifying the problem, opportunity for improvement, goals, and customer requirements. Measure  – This involves measuring the performance of the process. Analyze  – This involves evaluating the process to determine the root causes of variation and defects. Improve  – This involves improving the process performance by eliminating those root causes. Control  – This involves controlling and maintaining the improved process. Although all the five stages of the DMAIC model are important, and neither one can be performed without the other, today we will speak about the Measure phase, which is the lengthiest phase of the model. The Measure phase includes data collection, wherein different types of data are collected and the...