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Overview

Our client, a leading tier 1 automotive supplier, wants to reduce its development cost by optimizing activities and hours.

KEPLER deploys its extensive experience in Lean Engineering and agile methodologies to improve customer competitiveness.

Context

Market pressure & cost reduction demands from OEMs to significantly reduce development hours and costs within an ambitious timeframe
The company must enhance its development competitiveness to counter growing competition from external design offices, the trend of OEMs re-internalizing development activities, and aggressive strategies from international competitors seeking to expand their market share in Europe

Objectives

Engaging all development stakeholders into a company dynamic to reinforce the competitiveness and increase development activities’ profitability through:

Identifying cost and time-saving levers while considering project complexity and specificities
Implementing quick wins and structural action plans to reach the ambition

Top-down constraint and bottom-up solutions are key enablers to succeed in a lean engineering transformation.

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