Lean Product Design represents the application of Lean techniques to the design area.
The focus is on identifying Customer value and converting it into functional requirements and product specifications that meet real market needs while simultaneously reducing design and production costs and thereby increasing product profitability.
In addition, the application of the Lean Product Design approach enables Development Teams to focus on value activities by fostering skill growth and engagement levels.

Lean Product Design is a set of methodologies and tools inspired by the Lean Thinking approach that bring value for the Customer and the reduction of waste.

This approach, applied to the development of new catalog or contract products, as well as to the redesign and improvement of existing products, provides answers to many of the typical needs of companies, such as:

Knowledge enhancement and dissemination

✓ Ensure the availability of comprehensive information for project development;

✓ Develop shared knowledge of raw material, component and product standards;

✓ Enhance skills on design and industrialization criteria according to performance limitations and constraints of production technologies.

Specification Management

✓ Link functional and technical specifications to the real needs of the Customer, i.e., perceived value;

✓ Improve the definition of product requirements and minimize specification changes during the more advanced stages of design.

Product costs

✓ Ensure product margins in line with business expectations;

✓ Have reliable and robust standard reference costs;

✓ Ensure progressive control and refinement of product costs during different stages of the development process.

Development logics

✓ Avoid the proliferation of codes by encouraging the reuse of existing ones;

✓ Introduce and implement logics of modularity and configurability of products;

✓ Increase the standardization of products;

✓ Reduce Time-to-Market.

L'Integration of artificial intelligence in knowledge management represents a fundamental evolution of Lean Product Design, exponentially amplifying the potential for creating, sharing and applying business know-how.

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