ERG personnel have been involved in the development of many families of products, and have experience designing with an eye to the future development of products. We can help you ensure that your initial design has room for performance improvement and product enhancement during its life cycle, so that major redesigns can take place less frequently while remaining competitive and accommodating changes in technology that permit improvements in productivity.
Creating families of products with common features and parts using the same basic design arrangements can make service and support easier and less expensive, and limit requirements for inventory and spare parts. Proper management of inventory, prediction of required spares, and management of part ordering can limit excess inventory without creating shortages of spares or lead to conflicts between new build and support part requirements.
Dealing with the issues of obsolescence and support of old designs, and turning obsolescence into opportunity for spares sales and upgrade kits is another issue that can be managed to your and your customers’ benefits. From initial design to the end of manufacturing support, effective product life-cycle management is of immense benefit to you and your customers.