Design Process
Consultant/Trainer
Applying design process best practices to bring quality hardware products to market.
Rather than push a specific design tool or method, Ullman assesses the current product development situation, your goals, and limitations. He then suggests a path from the present reality to improved product quality and time to market using industry best practices.
Recent Experiences (2019 -2024) :
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An optical aiming systems manufacturer needed to align their hardware design process with the Agile process used in software development. Ullman helped the teams by providing Agile hardware design training and ongoing consultation, improving their ability to bring new products to market on time.
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A multi-national manufacturer of electric motors needed to improve their product design process in one of their European groups. Ullman spent a week with the group assessing and training them. He continues via the web with product reviews to improve their use of functional modeling, morphologies, and FMEA.
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An instrumentation manufacturer wanted to apply Agile/Scrum methods to the development of a new measuring device. Ullman spent a day assessing the situation at their facility, a day training the team and now meets with the team weekly over the web supporting their transition to Agile hardware design He was invited to do the same at a second site.
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A market leader in residential and commercial electronics had challenges getting products to market on time. Ullman spent a day interviewing engineers and managers and then suggested that they needed to get a better handle on their introduction of new technologies. This led to the development of new tools and an on-going effort toward the introduction of Lean and Agile hardware design methods.