Aligning design intent and the product development process.

At a time of rapid technological change, product development is often a fast, furious and unforgiving process. And with an estimated 83 per cent of all product defects introduced at the earliest stages of a project it’s perhaps never been more critical to ensure the original design intent and the product development process are aligned right from the start.

Errors and misalignments entering the product development process at the start can compound and become amplified over time, and for engineering organisations in all sectors the adoption of practices that mitigate these risks before they come to fruition is essential.

In this online panel session, held in partnership with QRA, we will explore some of the techniques, technologies and processes that engineers from different sectors and different organisations are using to address this challenge, to mitigate risks and errors before they have a chance to create problems further down the line, and to ensure that product intent and the product development process are aligned.

Key discussion areas
• Ensuring the product intent and development are aligned throughout the process
• Collecting and setting clear product requirements
• Accelerating concept design and testing
• Application of AI / Machine Learning & automation
• Digitalisation
• Delivering on the megatrends: e.g. The circular economy & Sustainability
• Achieving Visibility within the development cycle

More panellists TBC shortly.