Consulting

A clear product structure will make it easier to configure the product. Taking production and logistics into account helps to describe the product and create the right documentation from sales to installation. As experts we have decades of experience in product development and engineering.

A simple product structure makes things simple.

Consulting i3D configurator

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Mechanical engineering service

Product Management consulting

Product structure consulting

Product development consulting

Product management workshop

Mechanical engineering service

  • Do you struggle to turn your ideas into reality?
  • Do you need help to define the maximun span length?
  • How to calculate the snow load in certain area?
  • How to take wind load into account when glazing a balcony?
  • What was the minimum distance to the anchor bolt hole in concrete?

Information about the product

We are experts in mechanical engineering and have a long experience in industry and construction business. In the configurator, the dimensions must be given permissible and deny prohibited values to ensure that the final product is compliant and safe to use. The configurator can also be used to tabulate the results of the strength calculation of the structure, so that the program extracts the allowable value for the parameter based on the values entered.

Product management consulting

  • Do products appear in the collection without anyone deciding on them?
  • Is the warehouse full of “leftover” goods from customer projects?
  • Is it unclear who decides on the collection?
  • Is it difficult to terminate old products?
  • How many products there are in our collection?

Information about the product

Product management is a strategic function that controls the entire life cycle of a product, from its conception to the end of its life cycle. It focuses on understanding the needs of the market and customers, defining what product to develop, why and for whom. The aim is to maximise the value and success of the product in the market, in close collaboration with various stakeholders such as product development, marketing and sales.

We can assess the current situation and then make a proposal on how your company should start managing its products. From experience, we know how to start and what mistakes to avoid. As a tip, quite often it’s about decision making.

Product structure consulting

  • Why is modular structure so important?
  • How to manage material item designation in Solidworks?
  • Do I need to design “unnecessary” subassemblies?
  • Do planning and production speak the same language, i.e. do they use the same codes?
  • Would a spreadsheet drawing help us?

Information about the product

A product structure is a hierarchical list of all the components, sub-assemblies and materials, and their quantities, needed to make one finished product. It accurately describes the composition of the product and the relationships between parts, usually including part numbers and units of measure. The product structure is an essential tool for production planning, material management, procurement and cost accounting.

We can assess the current situation and then make a proposal on how your company should arrange your product structure. From experience, we know that simple structure helps everywhere while complex product structure makes things complicated at every level, from sales to installation and invoicing.

Product development consulting

  • Why are the drawings so different between engineers/factories/countries?
  • Why is there no assembly drawing of this for production?
  • Why doesn’t the supplier know we want to buy them welded together?
  • Why no one told that the product must still have this feature?
  • Why there is no tolerance marked on the drawing and now the whole batch is unusable?

Information about the product

Product development is the process of creating a new product or improving an existing one, covering the stages from idea to market launch. It typically includes ideation, definition, design, prototyping, testing and preparation for production. Product development requires collaboration and aims to create successful and commercially viable products that meet market needs.

We can help organise your company’s product development to a new and efficient level and create rules of the game within product development and with other departments in your company. Product development should be managed like any other organisation and not be its own isolated island within the company.

One-day consultancy package

  • Product strategy
  • Collection analysis
  • Road map of products
  • Needed data for new product decision
  • Decision making
  • Product structure
  • Product development

Information about the product

Our one-day consultation will help you clarify your company’s product strategy and create a clear roadmap for your products based on the analysis of your collection and initial data. During the day we will also go over the product structure, the role and processes of deciding on the collection and product development in your organisation.

After the day you will have a vision how to manage your product and how you should organizate product development.

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Product management consulting
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