Managing New Product Development Projects

Course Number:  107-RS
Recommended Duration:  2 Days

Intended Audience: Project leaders

Course Overview
Manufacturing companies worldwide have recognized that their new product development process can be a competitive advantage or disadvantage. In this practical two-day course, you will learn the elements of a world class new product development process. The course will provide you with an overview of the critical tools and techniques needed by the new product development team. The course will take you through the entire product development process beginning with customer needs identification and moving to specification development and team building. The course then introduces a variety of DFX techniques including the various design considerations and the introduction of the new product to manufacturing, sales, and the customer support. The course includes the use of many checklists for different stages of product development.

Prerequisites:  Basic Project Management course or equivalent experience.

Topics/Objectives

• The new product development process

• Customer needs identification and benchmarking

• Program specification development

• Concurrent engineering

• Product line strategy and concept generation

• New product project team

• Product lifecycle and rapid prototyping

• Design for target costing, quality and service, manufacturability, and the environment

• Product certification

• Manufacturing, distribution/sales, and customer introduction