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CBS assists technology companies throughout their total life cycles with a focus on ‘Time-to-Market’, operational and supply chain planning, execution, and performance improvement.

New Products

Planning and deploying new products is a risky endeavor. The future of the company depends on your ability to continually launch products and services that anticipate what customers will value. Every technology company exists because there were early successes in beating the competition. With growth, the ‘can-do’ and innovative culture often feels stifled and frustrated. What used to take days and weeks to develop, now takes months or even years. Instead of instantly knowing a customer’s reaction, you find out your target customer isn’t satisfied with your product because they already bought from your competition. You are even more shocked when you learn that your competitor’s technology is no better and sometimes even more inferior than your own!

CBS provides clients with the practices and support tools that enable speed, efficiency, and effectiveness in new product development. The creation of new products has a unique set of counterbalancing forces. Higher innovation brings increasing unpredictability. Yet, success in the market means setting and meeting expectations in a predictable manner—doing what we said we would do. CBS reconnects clients with the most significant practices that enabled early successes. At the same time, CBS introduces new processes and support tools that can retain these critical attributes in a larger and more complex company environment.

CBS New Product Solutions

  • Product Development performance improvement in cost and ‘time-to-market’
    • Design Process Improvement through applications of Lean 6 Sigma concepts
    • CBS WorkFlow™ for Program and Product Development
      • Program Analysis and Improvement with the CBS Program Analyzer™
      • Work task coordination with the CBS Program Production Controller™
  • Product Development capabilities
    • Design for Reliability
    • Design for Serviceability
    • Design for Manufacturability
  • Operations, Supply Chain, Aftermarket support strategic planning
  • Operations, Supply Chain, Aftermarket support operational and financial planning
  • Operational Performance Improvement