Process

Innovative processes, spanning product concept to end of life, are needed to realize a sustainable future. Product Development is one of the most complex human endeavors. It is no wonder that numerous books on the subject have attempted to provide retrospective insights into how successful products make it to market. Most of these books, however, are written by authors who have no direct experience of how products actually get conceived, developed and delivered to the marketplace. This is especially true of those that are renewable.

Dr. Elter has personally led the ecological design, development and delivery of highly complex and innovative product platforms that have generated over $40B in revenues. He has experience with large Fortune 100 companies as well as small start-up efforts needing an agile approach to product and customer development.  Let Sustainable Systems help your organization set up sustainable and innovative work processes. These processes will yield clearly defined product platform concepts that help the team stay focused on critical success factors. Work with us to establish a world class product development process that is customized to your company’s size and culture; a process that enables rapid decision making, eliminates needless and wasteful activities, fosters strong collaboration and teamwork among the functional groups, and embeds sustainability work practices into its structure.

Sustainable Systems believes strongly in processes that emphasize creativity and engineering excellence.   Excellence involves technology and design readiness, defined and measured along the path to production readiness. We can teach your organization this process, along with other world class quality processes such as Critical Parameter Management, Quality Function Deployment, Taguchi Robust Design and Ecological Design for Cost, Manufacturing, Service and the Environment.

Contact Sustainable Systems and let us help you learn and use processes can be that customized to your organization. We will do this by means of assessing your current situation and then recommending improvements that will help your organization achieve its quality, cost and delivery goals.