PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
Developing your products in the best way
It is not true that “it is enough to do it at the lowest
cost and as soon as possible, and that’s all”.
-setting a development plan that could be consistent with the product and with the size and structure of your Company
-supporting top management in the creation of product initiatives, both from the technical and economic side
-promoting a correct product target setting, identifying primary targets and transforming them in measurable technical targets as project basics identifying a set of key performance indicatoris (technical and economic) to be monitored through the development, in order to guarantee timing, costs, investments, quality and performance
-if needed, managing compromises between performances and evaluate any waiver, seeking the best solution for the company and for the success of the product
-conceiving detailed planning of activities, analyzing the possibility of stretching and parallelization, whether it is necessary to recover from unexpected or to anticipate
-managing the product also in the production manteinance phase, through the creation of product improvement and costs reduction plans
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Improving the quality of your products and processes
It is not true that quality is a cost.
-identifying measurable quality indicators, internal or external to the company (linked to the
performance of the product as contributor to customer’s overall performance) and use them to
set action priorities
-using the indicators reactively (to eliminate problems) or proactively (to prevent the potential criticality and avoid them to arise), in order to reduce the costs linked to “missing quality”
-making diagnosis on problems, identifying the root cause and the related corrective actions to be quickly implemented in order to limit scrap and rework losses
-on high-rate or high-complexity processes, if a non-conformity has been identified, implementing containment actions and identifying specific controls that could reduce the need of scrap or rework and the risks in customer perception
-support the company in the implementation of quality control standards or qualification of products/processes required by their customers (i.e. apqp, ppap)
-provide technical support to the company customer service in the management of complaints, and product liability department in the preliminaries of field actions (service / recall campaign) and legal claims
WHERE I COME FROM
NOT ONLY AUTOMOTIVE….
DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS
Largest automotive company or
small / medium-sized production
companies, same main business
processes: they all buy raw
materials, transform them, sell
semi-finished or finished products.
They all have internal and external
logistics flows, they all seek the
quality and excellence of their
product.
The difference lies in how explicit
are some procedures and in the
number of people involved in each
process (often we are speaking of a
few people); in any case, well
organized processes are essential
for a winning company.
DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW
Living everyday in a well-know world,
can get us a bit “addicted” to some
misbehaviours: taking for granted
some rules even when they are not,
seeing only problems instead of
looking for solutions, considering
things as unmovable, even without a
solid reason why.
Someone told “to get different results
you have to do different things”: being
helped by someone who push us to
see things from a new point of view,
can stimulate us in the search for new
paths; eventually , it will make us see
and reach the finish line… it was just in
front of us, but hidden from our view.
DIFFERENT EXPERTISE
The road blocks we cope with in
working life are often linked to
“human” factors,common to all of
us: we underestimate risks, we fall
in love with solutions, we feel
uncomfortable in questioning
ourselves and we often postpone
decisions.
This happens independently on the
productive sector in which we work
and makes it much more difficult to
gain the expected results.
Sharing the experience and
discussing openly is always an
opportunity for personal growth,
while the company will also
increase its value.
