Getting new stuff out the door smoothly.
IpX helps you ensure that every step of your new product introduction is outstandingly orchestrated, providing a personalized approach that fixes what needs fixing.
Whether you operate in a highly regulated industry—like our clients in aerospace and medical devices—or require a light and lean, flexible NPI process, IpX Services is here to support you. We help you make informed decisions and manage risks effectively, ensuring that your design and manufacturing capabilities are robust and reliable. Our expertise in CM2 change and configuration management ensures that every step of your product introduction is meticulously controlled and documented, giving you the confidence to innovate and succeed in any market environment. Let us help you navigate the complexities of product development with a tailored approach that meets your unique needs, giving you the confidence that all requirements are being met—be they customer, business, regulatory, or technical.
In the early stages of New Product Introduction (NPI), it’s essential for the process to be light, lean, and nimble to foster innovation and rapid iteration. This flexibility allows teams to engage, explore, test, learn, and respond at a rapid pace. However, once the project reaches the “money gate”—the point where substantial investments are committed—changes become more expensive and time-consuming. At this stage, managing the rigor of the process appropriately is critical. Ensuring thorough documentation, stringent change control, and meticulous risk management helps maintain project integrity and and meticulous risk management helps maintain project integrity and fidelity to financial commitments. Balancing agility with rigor at the right phases ensures a smooth transition from concept to market-ready product, optimizing both efficiency and quality.
Ensuring a level of design maturity commensurate with the project stage objectives means your dataset release supports a smooth and efficient development process. Releasing the right datasets at the appropriate level of maturity and at the right cadence ensures that each dataset is marked and utilized correctly for its intended purpose at each phase. This approach helps in maintaining clarity and consistency, preventing the rush to formally release all documents at the last minute before production launch.
By managing dataset releases effectively, you can level load resources across different phases, reducing bottlenecks and ensuring that each team has the information they need when they need it. This not only enhances the quality of the final product but also ensures that all deliverables are released, reviewed, and right.
Establishing clear decision criteria for managing risks ensures that projects stay on time, on scope, and on budget. This requires a delivery framework where key performance indicators and risk factors are continually monitored and evaluated. And it requires a culture where saying “no” early and often is encouraged; and risks and issues are raised and addressed before they escalate to impact schedule, scope and cost. By making informed decisions based on well-defined criteria, organizations can deliver on their NPI portfolio promises with confidence.
Our NPI process is seamlessly integrated with the CM2 change and configuration management standard, ensuring that every change is controlled and documented throughout the product lifecycle. This integration provides:
By leveraging CM2, we ensure that your product development process is robust, efficient, and compliant with industry standards. This integration helps in maintaining data integrity, improving collaboration across teams, and accelerating time-to-market.
We excel in New Product Introduction (NPI) because we hold the intellectual property for CM2, the gold standard in change and configuration management. As veteran practitioners, we understand that change management is essentially program management on steroids, requiring meticulous planning and execution. Product changes and improvements should be managed as the portfolio of projects they are, with appropriate attention to detail and resource allocation. Our expertise in CM2 ensures that change management and NPI deliveries are seamlessly integrated, each tailored to their specific scale and risk profile.
This holistic approach allows us to manage both large-scale programs and incremental improvements effectively, ensuring that every change is controlled, documented, and aligned with your overall project goals.
