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Playbook of services


Perry Parendo Perry Parendo

You can choose from three core product development services: Solving new product challenges, assembling active product development teams, and training personnel for New Product Development.

 

What do we do with you
Understand quickly and execute with focus

We start by confirming your need for our services. Continuing our work with you, we quickly evaluate options and perform the critical analysis to narrow to the best solution. This includes creating plans to understand how a product works and to identify root causes. The earlier this work is performed the better, including in start-up organizations. For short projects this has consistently saved months on the project schedule and shaved years for larger projects. There is a corresponding cost savings as well as the schedule benefit. It creates a dual benefit of reduced development costs as well as the true production costs reflected in inspection, rejection and returns.

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High Stakes Situations to Resolve
Why wait any longer to address these needs?

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Projects
Fast, complete

Most companies could use more experienced problem solvers. If a capable one exists, that person is often not available either because they are too busy or because they work in another department. The ability to perform risk analysis, develop test strategy and provide timely solutions are vital for organizations. Many companies could benefit from a resource who can resolve competing requirements, address a persistent yield concern and improve through put. Our typical project provides a cost avoidance of $600,000 and the same is possible for your project.

In a recent situation, we guided a company though an "impossible project". Several times questions came up about cutting the project. Even though the technology advance would be an important change for customers, maybe this idea was not realistic. Early on, after simplifying the measurement process, we recommended a redesign which solved critical performance concerns (in one case, a 40% performance improvement). Later, manufacturing concerns were studied and addressed with process adjustments and more design modifications. Our work continued to quickly optimize the new features. The project is now considered a success technically and from a market perspective. Do you need a confident and timely solution or root cause analysis?

Is your measurement system acceptable for your situation? You can quickly obtain the answer.

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Category Situation Result
Design Improvement Project Product accuracy needed improvement for competitive reasons. Various strong opinions made a clear and confident path to resolution impossible to obtain.
  • System performance analysis performed to determine internal or external solution direction.
  • Further study indicated design parameters key for evaluation and technical improvement.
  • Initially over 20 potential input variables were narrowed to 3 priority areas. This data driven decision provided a path for the team to execute and resolve.
Root Cause Analysis Project Long term customer product complaints were not being resolved. Could impact future orders and future development contracts.
  • Using a retainer set up, gathered inputs from the various organizations involved in the product realization process. Data gathering and initial testing allowed a detailed test plan to address and resolve each key complaint.
  • Solution space narrowed to optimized conditions for technical and business needs. With 4 key suppliers involved, able to narrow to critical aspects for each participant.

Program management
Proactive, Predictable and Accountable

Sometimes an organization will have a new idea for a product offering and they need a new team to help pull it together. How do you find a team of people who can work together, who you can be confident in and can be assembled in a short period of time? During these periods of focused design work, we can create a temporary team using your people and our expert network. Focus is on the outcome of the program and creating a market success.

We have developed and coached teams in multiple environments while creating product development speed records in several of them. Once a three year project was completed in 1 1/2 years. Another time an 18 month project was finished in 11 months (while also cleaning up an old project to improve manufacturability). In a third project, we virtually eliminated field issues on a new product release using FMEA and test strategy techniques at start of a project. In each case, team morale was high and requirements were met, including cost targets. Would that be a great end result for your next project?

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Category Situation Result
Product Development Program Management Product redesign desired improved communication and accountability for development team
  • Design decisions, vendor selection and schedule trade offs coordinated.
  • Framework for team communication and decisions to ensure nothing gets lost in the cracks is sustainable.
  • Progressed from idea to first prototype.
Program Management For New Idea New product needed technical organization and justification for how to move forward.
  • After supporting key decisions and providing direction on technical aspects, team and suppliers selected capable of remaining execution.
  • Progressed from feasibility parts to ready for validation testing.

Training
Practical with Immediate Return on Investment

Companies need training and work related coaching with applicable information, efficiency and practical implementation. Often times training leaves a huge gap between presentation and reality. Some will use toys to teach, which may be fun, but it does not bridge the gap to practical application. Real projects and real data bring the concepts to reality and allows comfort when dealing with new situations.

The focus of all classes is on decision making, and understanding when to use the right tool at the right time. As an example, through our training, we have coached over 223 DOE projects and saved an estimated $9,193,400 (not including 10 outliers that were considered "too high", which would more than double the savings). This means a class of 10 people can create a $400,000 benefit for your organization during the training! How would that impact you with your next training class?

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Category Situation Result
Development Tool Training Audit findings identified need for improved decision making during product development. Desire for improvements during next major development program.
  • Created courses to cover decision making process, statistical tools and test method development, prioritized for each functional group.
  • Used real time work data for examples in class, to ensure benefit for existing project responsibilities.
  • Elevated team meeting conversations and rationale for design testing, as small group discussions were a prototype for expectations.
Project Management Training Management desire to align development team communication and advance project execution. Remove known barriers while identifying and removing items discovered during training process.
  • Implemented best practices and small group discussions to address and resolve current barriers for higher level success.
  • Topics introduced include systems engineering, innovation, project management (requirements, risk and schedules). Equiped team members to take initiative and increase professionalism with management and customers.
  • Periodic training sessions allowed material to be learned and used, without being overwhelmed.

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Phone
651-230-3861
Mail
1556 131st Ave NE
Blaine, MN 55449