The Final Step
DFSS Professional Master Black Belt Certification
A Master Black Belt Certification is the final step needed to completely internalize your DFSS training program. This program is essentially a train-the-trainer seminar.
Curriculum
Curriculum is highly individualized. We assess your education, industry experience, scope and quality of precedent DFSS training to arrive at a curriculum best suited to your needs and industry demands.
Custom DFSS Programs
Are you planning to launch your own DFSS Program or need help implementing your current program? In either instance we can help. Precission has the expertise to fully realign your existing DFSS program for each product development group individually or across the company’s entire spectrum of products – providing custom DFSS programs for each. We can also design a program from scratch to meet your needs.
Steps to Success
Precission will assess your New Product Development Process across all related functions. This is a holistic assessment purposed to understand your key focal areas and align these areas with DFSS methods and tools. It forms the foundation of our recommendations for a strategic approach providing the most value and one that is strategically on target.
The Champions’ Workshop is a 2-day session designed to bring those in charge of implementation into a common process and outcome perspective. Its elements consist of:
- Introduction: orientation and expected outcomes
- Voice of the Customer (VOC) Lite
- Strategic Approach
- DFSS Project Planning with NPI Task Summary Matrix
- Overview DFSS Practices/Tools
- Wrap up with Questions and Discussions
Any program without a plan of implementation (strategy) has a highly predictable outcome: failure.
A strategic implementation plan is an indispensable step toward achieving success.
There are three DFSS Mindsets. We may recommend a concentration on one or some combination of all three.
- Value Innovation: Innovative Product Designs that better align to customer needs. A mindset that results in higher revenues.
- Probabilistic Thinking: More robust products with higher probabilities of success. A mindset that results in a reduction in customer quality issues.
- Design For Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA): Only the more capable and lean designs go into production. A mindset which results in less scrap and lower costs.
The Implementation Strategy, among other aspects, will address:
- Person(s) in charge: responsibility, authority, and organizational support
- Timeline(s): target deployment timeline
- What NUDs are present (New, Unique, or Difficult issues)
- What additional resources are needed, if any
- What downline training is needed, if any
- What tracking metrics are needed for responsibility and accountability
The Implementation Strategy will likely recommend an IDOV rather than a DMADV approach. Our experience is that IDOV offers the following advantages:
- Better integration into existing R&D process with less effort
- Greater scalability that is proportionate with the size of the product
- More flexible engineering solutions
- Faster product-to-market timelines