Changing Product Development Culture

Challenge:

An Asian automotive OEM is Number 8 in sales worldwide. The CEO of the company announced it is targeting its position to become No. 5 worldwide by 2010. In order to accomplish this objective, the company's executive VP of Engineering recognized a need to change its engineering culture to produce high quality and reliable automobiles.

ASI Solution:

ASI Consulting Group conducted full 4-week project oriented Design for Six Sigma Black Belt training, with all sixty technical directors of the company. DFSS projects were carefully selected, and assigned to each of the Black Belt candidates.

Achieved Benefit:

After the first wave of projects was completed, the average cost saving per project was approximated as $1.0 million. Besides substantial cost reductions, the company rapidly developed a DFSS culture within its engineering community.