Product Development

We can’t help our clients to succeed until we understand the market and competitive business issues that they face. That’s why we begin each engagement by conducting a thorough assessment that allows us to:

• Define and scope our clients’ future vision
• Assess the organization’s current-state capabilities
• Identify improvement opportunities
• Define the future state, supported by a multi-year PLM roadmap and business case

Using this process, we are able to leverage our unique, pre-configured and industry-tested platforms– DPLM and DMES–, processes, and applications to manage “gaps” (requirements truly needed by the company) against a proposed solution.

From inception to maturity and, eventually, replacement, all products have a natural lifecycle of usefulness and popularity. What was new and innovative when it was first introduced can quickly become—or become perceived to be—old and outdated in a short period of time.

The reasons for this are as varied as the products on the market: the introduction of new technologies, advanced designs, and features; competition from rival manufacturers; outdated marketing campaigns. The list is extensive, which is why one of the most important aspects of maintaining and growing market share is, for many companies, to constantly innovate.

Sometimes referred to as “planned obsolescence,” manufacturers know that constant innovation is the key to keeping their brands fresh and attractive to both their existing customer base and to potential new customers who are cross-shopping the competition. Companies that fail to innovate—or even update—their products to incorporate the latest technologies and trends can remain stagnant and, eventually, become left behind by more agile, and forward-thinking competitors.

It’s our job to help your organization stay in front of your competitors, rather than having to catch up with them down the road. Learn more about Deloitte Product Lifecycle Management Solution.

Similarly, we use our Manufacturing Execution System (DMES) pre-configured solution available through a wide range of engagement options to help you tailor implementation to your organization’s needs, culture, time frame, and budget as you progress in your digital maturity. DMES focuses on seven key capabilities with prebuilt process and data integration connections to other digital product development and real-time IoT production monitoring capabilities:

• Manufacturing process definition
• Production scheduling
• Production execution
• Tracking and traceability
• Production quality management
• Closing production unit
• Data collection and reporting

Together, these tools form the foundation of creating the digital thread that connects engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain with the rest of the business and is where most organizations are seeing the largest value in their business. Depending on our clients’ needs, we also rely on any number of proprietary accelerators or packaged services, including:

• Model-based Enterprise leverages the digital model as the single source of truth throughout the value chain, allowing our partners to eliminate redundant and disconnected steps in the product lifecycle while improving design quality
• Product Data X-Ray (DPDx) brings together digital technologies with Deloitte’s unparalleled industry knowledge to help organizations better understand their data, define data strategy, and accelerate unstructured data digitization
• Product Cost and Complexity Management (PCCM) analytics identify opportunities to reduce cost and improve quality through benchmark driven cost reduction and lifecycle product cost decomposition
• IndustryPrint™ (DPLM/DMES) significantly reduces implementation time (months, not years). We've found that 80% of processes within an industry are largely similar. For this reason, we developed pre-configured solutions to leverage industry best practices while focusing on client-unique content
• Assessment tools