A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Why is Change Process Speed Important?

Why is Change Process Speed Important?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
5 November, 2009 | 2 min for reading

Picture 38Have you ever thought how important is speed of the process? Thinking about a potential implications of change process speed-up, I got to the conclusion that this can be a very good idea. I will try to explain why. Think about typical change you are making in the product you currently designing and/manufacturing. I’ll try to simulate questions you need to ask yourself and your colleagues to brainstorm and discover to unlock potential of process speed-up.

1. How fast/slow is “the typical change process” in your organization?–> About 20 days
2. How many hours you need to really proceed with this change? –> Abut 4-5 hours
3. How fast process should be in your view? –> 2-3 days
4. What your organization is doing during 18 day left? –> Queue….

This is sounds like obvious, right? However, let’s continue with additional questions that will help you understand what happens in your organization during 18 queuing days.

1. Your suppliers are doing work that probably needs to be returned, reworked or scrapped
2. Your manufacturing facility is making product that needs to be reworked or scrapped
3. Your assembly and test facility is doing unnecessarily tests
4. Your production line down or potentially down for extra 18 days
5. Your organization is shipping product that potentially needs to be fixed or factory returned
6. Your customer is probably waiting extra 18 days.

Now try to calculate worth of all this topic I just mentioned for your organization. I’m sure you got  a very good number to justify your tomorrow’s thinking about why your PLM system is still not managing the overall change process in you organization.

So, what is the conclusion? You need to speed up processes. Period.This is the main role of PLM system that connects organizational dots and makes life blood of your organization to move faster. I’d be very interested to hear about your (or your customer’s) experience.

Best, Oleg

 

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
11 November, 2013

PLM and cost. The topic is important and heavily debated among vendors, customers and industry pundits. Major established PLM vendors...

8 April, 2015

Cloud adoption is growing. There is almost a synergy about cloud and PLM. All PLM vendors are signaling about leveraging...

29 September, 2019

Agile software development was a popular thing for the last 20 years.  If you lived under the to rock check...

25 March, 2015

I’m in Warwick today getting prepared for Develop3D Live conference, which will be tomorrow. The full conference agenda is here....

9 June, 2014

Silos is an interesting topic in enterprise software. And it is a very important topic for product lifecycle management. Why...

22 June, 2010

I’d suggest to have some fun in the beginning. What is PUI? Do you think this is a new PLM...

11 October, 2014

PIM. Product Information Management. Sorry for brining yet another three letter acronym into discussion today. PIM stands for a discipline...

17 January, 2010

Last week I had chance to read Forbes’s article (Listen To Competitors — Not Customers), which made me think more...

5 November, 2021

As COVID hit the world, the PLM industry, like many other industries, made an interesting trajectory from traditional (physical) events...

Blogroll

To the top