Success story | Reshaping product development in a highly dynamic semiconductor market

RESHAPING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN A HIGHLY DYNAMIC SEMICONDUCTOR MARKET

CHALLENGES

In a highly dynamic semiconductor market, developing advanced products while preparing for serial production is essential to gain a first-mover advantage and secure market share. Especially, in cost-intensive countries, time is of the essence to differentiate a company through fast developments and market introductions.

SOLUTIONS

To optimize critical product-related processes:

• We compared the client’s Product Development and Engineering Change Management processes to best practices from other industries
• Afterward, we categorized identified potentials based on the fit with the client’s specific business model and transformed them into actionable project measures for implementation
• We developed the PLM strategy from an IT perspective according to the client’s new processes

KEY DELIVERABLES

• Implemented Product Dev. Process: process description to increase product development performance in quality & efficiency
• Implemented Engineering Change Mgmt. process: process and IT steering tool to standardize and track engineering changes in series
• PLM strategy and implementation support: PLM target picture and roadmap and support during client’s implementation

CUSTOMER BENEFITS

• 1 global standard process for product development and engineering changes
• More than 40% FTE efficiency increase for engineering change management
• 2 new product introductions enabled through scalable processes

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