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Collaborative Product Definition

The extended enterprise is a fact of life in virtually every industry segment that depends on highly engineering products. In the aerospace industry, for example, prime contractors have opted to focus on systems integration as a core competency. As a result, they have made a conscious decision to shed capacity and place more responsibility on the members of their supply chain. This has in turn created the need to enhance requirements flow and improve communication at every level of the supply chain, particularly during the critical period of product definition and design.

Renaissance Services can apply its methodology and bring together the necessary tools to establish a web-based capability for real-time sharing of design/process information at the characteristic level through every tier of the supply chain.

This capability will enable realization of multiple objectives within the extended enterprise, including:

• Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) - DFSS is a complex undertaking when the enterprise is under the same roof. In an extended enterprise environment, collaborative efforts, enabled by real-time sharing of mutually understood information, are essential.
• Integration of source controlled systems and components - Build-to-print components require a supplier to have a clear understanding of the prime’s design intent, while source controlled parts present a more subtle challenge. For source control parts or “black boxes,” input/output parameters and key interfaces must be clearly communicated and understood if system capability is to meet design expectations.
• Alignment of process capability with design intent - Renaissance has successfully demonstrated the capability to apply its methodology and tools to align design intent with process capability at any stage in the product lifecycle. In addition, these tools have documented the relationship in real-time, established Cpk values, and enabled changes that led to enhanced alignment and the realization of DFSS objectives.