Small Business

Business Performance

The demands on small and medium size business are more challenging than ever. Great products are becoming exponentially more difficult to create due to increasing product complexity, globally distributed design teams, fragmented IT architecture and more stringent time, cost and regulatory requirements.

The key to success is to harness product development activities. Below are several ways in which you can create value for your company.

  • Optimize Performance
  • Design Reuse
  • Reducing Scrap
  • Collaborating
  • Virtual Prototypes
  • Cloud Computing

Optimize Business Performance

The key to make more money is to harness product development activities. Many companies have been able to boost their bottom line by examining and improving their own Product Development practices.

Increasing Design Reuse

Using the design of an existing part or for apparel, a garment, as a starting point can reduce development time and the risk of making errors.

The key to building better products faster is to adopt best-practice strategies around planning ahead by creating categories and indexes to build up a library.  This can be done by adopting FastFit360  a web based online software that categorizes by design, product or style number. Each upload libraries the product and with the advanced search tool in place it is ready for automatic information retrieval.

Reducing Production Scrap and Rework

Production scrap can come from anywhere. It can result from garments produced in the past or styles purchased that resemble the start of a new design to be placed into production. It can also result from parts ordered from a sub-assembly supplier that don’t fit into a finished assembly or it can be a physical prototype that was used and discarded.

The key to reducing production scrap is to digitally define all product information. With advances in design and manufacturing integration, full digital product representation is easier than ever.  This is especially true if the 360 degree studio is used to capture the design.

Collaborating with Customers and Suppliers

The demands on retail, apparel and manufacturing businesses are more challenging than ever before. Customers have high expectations for manufacturing businesses to deliver on time with consistent product quality and pricing. In order to meet customer’s expectations for consistent and high quality products, businesses need to focus on collaboration across project teams.

The goal for any company is to reduce the number of physical samples while maintaining the integrity of the product.

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