Product Management

 

If your company is involved in the supply of electronic products, systems or components and needs assistance/advice in any of the following areas, then The Rayworth Consulting Group can assist you

Ensure that your product portfolios are complete and supported by a suitable range of ancillaries, whilst identifying product items which are reaching end of life, or require replacement.

Find, assess and control OEM sources for those items not manufactured in-house.

Understand and minimise costs of; product variation, “product ownership” and product supply/procurement.

Optimise return on development investments through sound strategic direction. Interpret customer requirements and write specifications of new products/features.

Create Product Documentation, both technical (eg data sheets) and commercial, paper and web-based.

Analyse competitor products.

With direct experience of managing complex development projects, research projects and product introduction programmes in the electronics industry, The Rayworth Consulting Group has a wealth of experience to draw upon.

This includes projects: with budget sizes from 1 person to over £3.00m per annum. involving all departments of a company. with multi-company international collaborations. in highly regulated technical areas (e.g. designing professional radios for safety critical use). in all stages of the product life cycle, specifically: research, development, production-introduction, product technical support and facility relocation projects. with (or that need to have) ISO9000:2000 compliant processes. that have used a variety of planning and reporting tools and techniques including MS Project and Artemis Prestige, triple estimation, risk assessment, Gannt charts, Pert charts and even simple techniques using spreadsheets. with teams in different locations, as far apart as UK-Australia.

The Rayworth Consulting Group can assist you with any requirements you may have for technical project management.

Please feel free to contact us to discuss needs such as: Planning and organising a new project.

Ensuring that an existing project is being effectively monitored.

Risk assessment, and assistance in planning, mitigation and reduction of risks.

Technical auditing of internal or external projects to address specific concerns, maybe for a key project that is not running to plan?

Designing process improvements to ensure and improve efficiency, implementing effective monitoring and identification of corrective actions.

Resurging a project – either by providing skills or recruiting a suitable team.

Bridging the culture-gap that can sometimes develop between different departments/locations of a company.