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NPD Process-in-a-Box™

PD-Trak™ provides an NPD Process-in-a-Box™. This new product development process is based on 270 best practices and the experience of many major companies that the developers have consulted with over a twenty year period. The NPD process embedded in PD-Trak™:

  • Utilizes a stage-gate process
  • Incorporates design reviews for verification
  • Focuses on understanding customer needs as a basis for product specifications
  • Emphasizes establishing and achieving target costs
  • Incorporates good project management practices
  • Is oriented to compliance with quality management practices
  • Emphasizes collaboration of a multi-functional product team

This process can be adopted as-is for a company that needs to overhaul and improve its development process or elements of it can be adapted to the organization's current development process.

NPD Process-in-a-Box™ consists of the following elements:

  • A defined set of stages and gates shown below
  • A task breakdown and deliverable documents associated with each stage (Task Plans)
  • A set of templates for the deliverable documents to support the process along with guidance how to prepare each document
  • A set of Product Development Tools to support the development process including Bills of Material, Quality Function Deployment, Target Costing, Design for Assembly, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, and Control Plans
  • Two project management planning and statusing alternatives
  • Agendas and guidelines for gate reviews and design reviews

NPD Process-in-a-Box™ Stage-Gate Process

For further information, please contact us at: info@pd-trak.com or at 925-484-8436.

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