The R&D, engineering or product development function represents only 2 to 5% of a companies\u2019 costs. As the start of the entire operations chain, it can lead to its success as much as it can cause issues and disappointment. In a context where operations are constrained to meet market requirements, controlling R&D is a key performance issue.<\/span><\/p>\n All sectors, from small series industry (aeronautics, defence, railways, etc.) to mass distribution and luxury, are motivated to meet three major customer expectations: adjusting quickly and efficiently to innovation and customisation demands, accelerating the pace of product renewal and to reducing production costs.<\/p>\n Innovation, with contributions from digitisation, leads to a broadening of the range of skills required and increases the complexity of products and associated services. To meet this new need for skills, a reflection on corporate strategy (core\/non-core, extended company, career management, recruitment, organisation\/grouping\/localisation) must make it possible to maximise the added value of the R&D function without increasing its costs.<\/p>\n Complexity (system of systems, connectivity, digitisation) and personalisation are similar in that they require a rethinking of the design approach to maintain product expertise at a human level. The organisation, processes and secondly the \u201ctools\u201d of R&D must be adapted to these new constraints.<\/p>\n Finally, the acceleration in pace and the search for savings are based on the planning and control of the design and industrialisation processes, as is the Lean Six Sigma approach in production on the execution and excellence of the supply chain to forecast and plan activities.<\/p>\n Argon & Co supports its clients in several ways:<\/p>\nHow we can help<\/b><\/h2>\n
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