Design Group’s Lean Manufacturing Consulting aims at improving efficiency and productivity of clients’ manufacturing process through structured elimination of non-value added activities. We leverage our diverse Engineering and IT consulting experience to deliver successful Lean implementations and transform clients’ manufacturing value chain.

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Design Group provides Retrofit services which add features and functionalities to an existing machine or product for addressing challenges such as less than optimal performance, non-compliance to industry safety standards, or technology obsolescence.

New products eventually lose their market position with rising competition from products with competitive pricing or additional features. Consequently, product managers must find ways, like lowering prices or improving quality, to maintain their market share.

Design Group provides Value Engineering (VAVE) services that facilitate material cost reduction in an optimal, design-conscious way which preserves the product quality while sustaining features and functionality. We follow a structured framework right from identification to realization of VAVE benefits, addressing the entire value chain - Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply Chain.

With over two decades of experience in the Engineering Services market, Design Group specializes in customized Sustaining Engineering solutions that address product enhancements, development of competitive product variants, and address quality issues from products in use. Design Group’s Sustaining Engineering solutions include:

• Engineering Change Order (ECO) Management
• After market support
• Creating model line variants of an existing foot print
• Addressing quality issues from field through design revisions
• Design modifications to accommodate changes in bought-out parts

In addition to engineering design and development services, Design Group also provides sourcing services for manufacturers. Our services include identifying and procuring high quality machined and fabricated parts and assemblies. Our Supply Chain Management professionals follow a DFMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) approach to ensure usage of the right process at the right cost for maximizing the cost savings for clients.

Key benefits of our sourcing services are:

• Reduction in material cost by almost 30 to 70%
• Reduction in manufacturing lead time by almost 20 to 40%
• Option to address warranty issues, if any while re-designing for cost optimization

Design Group offers Technical Publishing and Language Translation services for authoring a variety of technical documentation like user manuals, operating instructions, installation manuals, part catalogue etc. for machinery and products. Our consultants leverage in-house engineering experience, technical writing skills  and machine-building knowledge to produce ‘first-time-right’ results.

We utilize a variety of content management tools like Adobe CreativeSuite (InDesign, PhotoShop), FrameMaker, PageMaker, QuarkXpress, , AutoCAD, 3DVia, SolidWorks, Creo, RoboHelp to convert client inputs for publication and documentation.