About us

Product Development Consultants:

Product Development Consultants is a management consultancy specialising on the processes needed to develop new goods and services. It conducts consulting assignments, provides training services and can supply a range of standard process manuals to business customers. Our customers are generally in the UK but we operate globally as needed.

Our standard processes have been developed from a robust engineering background taking a product centric viewpoint. We believe that all goods and services follow a generic development or creation process. We simply want to make our process capability available to ALL the sectors of business.

Product Development Consultants is focused on supporting clients to turn great product ideas and current products into something that will contribute to your business finances and market positioning. We specialise in achieving excellence in new product development, new product introduction and product management. Product Development Consultants can help you avoid the inherent problems in the product development process.

Our operating principles:

  Research and understand the external business environment
  Listen, watch and understand the internal business situation
  Use the local knowledge and our engineering process background to find the weaknesses
  Work with those operating the process to develop solutions. No pre-set solutions
  Create and document processes that work for the client 
  Place people at the heart of the solution. The process operators should want the solution
  Ensure value for money is maintained at all times
  We have an open style. No self-importance or arrogance
  We place the interests of the client at the heart of our business, at all times
  We offer long term support if required

Our experience:

We have significant experience in the product development field, most of this from the engineering viewpoint. We have worked through the whole product development process from idea creation right through to volume production and support. Delivering projects large and small on time and to the desired quality standards. Our breadth of experience and knowledge can ensure your product development processes let you deliver your goods and services as intended.

Our collective experience:
  18 years automotive experience with five different auto makers
  17 years aerospace experience
  4 years website creation and internet retailing experience
  Product creation and development processes
  Software quality assurance
  ISO 9001 auditor experience including TickIT
  Business process mapping and re-engineering
  Business process capability assessments (CMMI)
  One to one mentoring and coaching
  Design FMEA and process FMEA methodologies
  8D problem solving methodology
  Six sigma methodology
  Project management methods
  Internet retailing and mail order selling
  Supplier and customer management experience
  Electronics and software development
  Low volume manufacturing and high volume manufacturing
  Cost sensitive products and luxury products
 

 Find out how we could help your business. Please contact us if you want to find out more.

Alternatively call us on +44 (0) 7979 212205.
 
 
Free on-line self assessment tool
Home