New Product Introduction

Today's competitive markets demand innovation and speed. When the market takes off for your company's new product, will your manufacturing organization be ready to move?

For over 13 years, MRI's team have been helping companies in the automotive, energy, consumer products, and government industries move from prototype to high-volume production. Our output often takes the form of a production readiness plan. This plan provides enough detail to define the product "should costs" based on a clearly-defined manufacturing strategy.

In developing the manufacturing details, we start from process flow sheets, detailed component drawings and even sketches of R&D prototypes. To create valid cost models based on process plans and routings, we often recommend "proof of process" steps where parts are fabricated to the production process routings in "production" shops rather than in "prototype" shops. Throughout our involvement, we continually feed back to the engineering and management team design change ideas to improve producibility and reduce cost.

Other steps in the advising process may include:
 Operational analyses;
  Producibility studies;
  Process development;
  Risk assessment;
  Capacity analyses
  Capital planning;
  Staffing assessment;
  Plant layouts designing; and
  Product launch support.