Service Product Development Program Management
 
Policing, controlling and leading vehicle development in terms of timing, budget and QCD(Quality, Cost and Delivery) targets are the missions of program management group for the ultimate goal of successful product development.
Program management staffs who are totally mission-oriented and well experienced in OEM's mass production vehicle developments and program management procedure which accommodates many kinds of know-how ensure successful product development by effectively managing project schedule, material cost, weight, budget and design quality and so on.
 
  Program management group carry out the total program coordination on OEM site for effective development process between OEM's R&D group and other group. Program management group provides the program status report to program manager and top management and supports decision making to program direction in the view point of risk control, cost reduction and timing control.  
 
Program management group supports OEM's program manager and his group for any kinds of project timing issues such as
monitoring and control styling, detail design, prototype, production timing. interface
risk control for activities on critical path
Development timing interface between OEM and engineering groups
 
 
From initial development stage, program management group makes product planning according to the direction of OEM's marketing group and top management
Product specification definition and simplification support
Product Program Submission (PPS)
Product Description Summary (PDS) release
 
 
Reasonable material cost setup in very early stage of vehicle development and continuous and systematic monitoring it during the development process is done through our material cost tracking methodology and know-how.
Cost target set up per system & cost BOM generation
Vendor selection support
Material cost reduction program coordination to meet target cost
Co-work with OEM's R&D, manufacturing, purchasing, supplier
Cost control by following up design change
 
 
Vehicle weight target and its system and component level cascading is another important activity for successful product development and can be supported or done by our experienced staff, procedure and enough database of other vehicles.
Our profound engineering knowledge and experience also enables to track systematically the vehicle weight and generate idea continuously for weight reduction and finally to achieve the optimized vehicle weight.
  
 
Program management group supports to set up the procedure for engineering release by considering OEM's R&D process to monitor and control the engineering data release status.
  
 
During the prototype development stage, program management group carries out the followings:
Coordination between design team and prototype shop (maker)
Prototype planning
  - Vehicle build specification / part condition / budget reduction activities
- Prototype development timing control and status follow-up
- Prototype BOM generation
- Build report follow-up
- Prototype inspection and quality control
- Concession and deviation
- Design change follow-up
- Cut-off timing control according to design change level and timing
History control of prototype part and the history backup support