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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.
Sébastien Grilli, Partner
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