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We are International Product Consultants.
What we do...
Product Development and Business Management
From concept, and the outset of product design, the product manufacturing requirements must influence and be an integral part of the product development process. Product revenues often fall below forecast because a product is not consistently buildable, cannot realize cost effective production, has excessive field failures, and/or is not effectively supported in the marketplace.
The product design and engineering goals and process must achieve a quality, cost effective, and consistently buildable product (manufacturability). Too often these critical attributes become the responsibility of manufacturing, thus burdening production engineering with tasks that they are ill equipped or less than fully skilled to accomplish. This can result in costly engineering, lost time to market, and a less than complete product.
The complete and timely "handover" of the product design to manufacturing and the productive and cost effective ramp up to production are therefore critical to achieving full product development and a successful product. Involving TECHMAN/KANATA in the product development will help assure that the client achieves its manufacturing, operational, and financial goals. Over the years, TECHMAN/KANATA , has become known as the skill and experience "between a design and a great product".
For critical "time to market" products, Bill Evans and his international colleagues provide the technical and program management for the product development from concept into secured manufacturing. Prior to undertaking product development clients should consider alternative means to bringing product to market, such as licensing and joint ventures. If licensing is the means to market we provide license planning, product make ready, licensee search and qualification, contract negotiations, and ongoing support.
With over 30 years of product experience, Bill assembles a highly competent team of professionals to achieve the client's global product requirements. These teams often include other product development firms, production technical experts, manufacturing and distribution consultants, and marketing and sales professionals, industrial designers/engineers, software and systems engineers, and regulatory engineers and experts.
Bill focuses the team and resources on product manufacturability from the outset of development. This results in a design that can be cost effectively produced with minimal time to production. The various phases of the overall development program are devised and executed to meet a detailed plan that includes the required manufacturing outcomes. The team remains in place until the process is complete and the manufacturing goals are met.
For all the industries we serve we provide manufacturing outsourcing and product cost reduction. Proper execution of outsourcing requires a detailed plan of action. This implementation plan must be devised from a careful review of the factors contributing to requiring outsourcing and account for all the implications, including organizational, financial, new product development, management etc., of outsourcing. This plan is only complete if it is based on a thorough first hand knowledge of the manufacturing contracting industry. TECHMAN/KANATA has extensive international contracting industry experience.
Careful analysis should be done before undertaking this move. Often companies don't realize their uniqueness and ignore or are not aware of the true industrial circumstances or capabilities both offshore and onshore. The frequently encountered and very costly (in direct and overhead/lost opportunity costs) consequences of production start up, contractor management, new product development/product changes, regulatory issues, market delivery and support, parts and technology supplier control and management, quality impact/control, etc. should influence the decision for and process of outsourcing.
Moving offshore should be to gain more than immediate manufacturing cost reduction. Being offshore should be to draw on the technology and human capital that is part of this lower cost environment for product engineering and development, operations, and distribution. Being there should also be to open up markets or to sell into growing markets. Onshore outsourcing can be to capture similar benefits.
Product cost reduction or re-engineering can be a key element to quality betterment, more productive manufacturing, and cost effective procurement of parts and services. Often we are asked to cost reduce a product in production. This requires applying the client's and our consulting technical and engineering skills to the program and in effectively managing the process. Determining the needed technical skills and matching these with the product type, market/applications, production processes and related technologies is critical. Often major cost savings are found in the product support and parts procurement functions and in the non-technical aspects of the product or production process. Product cost reduction/analysis is also a discipline that needs to reside in the Product Development organization. TECHMAN/KANATA works to maximize the savings with minimal disruption to the client and it's operations.
Bill Evans' business and senior management background also affords clients experience in complex contract negotiations, vendor reconciliation and management, and technology/product/operations acquisitions.
The product design and engineering goals and process must achieve a quality, cost effective, and consistently buildable product (manufacturability). Too often these critical attributes become the responsibility of manufacturing, thus burdening production engineering with tasks that they are ill equipped or less than fully skilled to accomplish. This can result in costly engineering, lost time to market, and a less than complete product.
The complete and timely "handover" of the product design to manufacturing and the productive and cost effective ramp up to production are therefore critical to achieving full product development and a successful product. Involving TECHMAN/KANATA in the product development will help assure that the client achieves its manufacturing, operational, and financial goals. Over the years, TECHMAN/KANATA , has become known as the skill and experience "between a design and a great product".
For critical "time to market" products, Bill Evans and his international colleagues provide the technical and program management for the product development from concept into secured manufacturing. Prior to undertaking product development clients should consider alternative means to bringing product to market, such as licensing and joint ventures. If licensing is the means to market we provide license planning, product make ready, licensee search and qualification, contract negotiations, and ongoing support.
With over 30 years of product experience, Bill assembles a highly competent team of professionals to achieve the client's global product requirements. These teams often include other product development firms, production technical experts, manufacturing and distribution consultants, and marketing and sales professionals, industrial designers/engineers, software and systems engineers, and regulatory engineers and experts.
Bill focuses the team and resources on product manufacturability from the outset of development. This results in a design that can be cost effectively produced with minimal time to production. The various phases of the overall development program are devised and executed to meet a detailed plan that includes the required manufacturing outcomes. The team remains in place until the process is complete and the manufacturing goals are met.
For all the industries we serve we provide manufacturing outsourcing and product cost reduction. Proper execution of outsourcing requires a detailed plan of action. This implementation plan must be devised from a careful review of the factors contributing to requiring outsourcing and account for all the implications, including organizational, financial, new product development, management etc., of outsourcing. This plan is only complete if it is based on a thorough first hand knowledge of the manufacturing contracting industry. TECHMAN/KANATA has extensive international contracting industry experience.
Careful analysis should be done before undertaking this move. Often companies don't realize their uniqueness and ignore or are not aware of the true industrial circumstances or capabilities both offshore and onshore. The frequently encountered and very costly (in direct and overhead/lost opportunity costs) consequences of production start up, contractor management, new product development/product changes, regulatory issues, market delivery and support, parts and technology supplier control and management, quality impact/control, etc. should influence the decision for and process of outsourcing.
Moving offshore should be to gain more than immediate manufacturing cost reduction. Being offshore should be to draw on the technology and human capital that is part of this lower cost environment for product engineering and development, operations, and distribution. Being there should also be to open up markets or to sell into growing markets. Onshore outsourcing can be to capture similar benefits.
Product cost reduction or re-engineering can be a key element to quality betterment, more productive manufacturing, and cost effective procurement of parts and services. Often we are asked to cost reduce a product in production. This requires applying the client's and our consulting technical and engineering skills to the program and in effectively managing the process. Determining the needed technical skills and matching these with the product type, market/applications, production processes and related technologies is critical. Often major cost savings are found in the product support and parts procurement functions and in the non-technical aspects of the product or production process. Product cost reduction/analysis is also a discipline that needs to reside in the Product Development organization. TECHMAN/KANATA works to maximize the savings with minimal disruption to the client and it's operations.
Bill Evans' business and senior management background also affords clients experience in complex contract negotiations, vendor reconciliation and management, and technology/product/operations acquisitions.
