Operational Efficiency

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, companies often encounter challenges in research and development (R&D) that can hinder growth and success. These obstacles range from finding skilled professionals to keeping up with changing regulations and market demands. This article aims to shed light on these challenges and highlight how partnering with a reliable R&D solution provider can help overcome them.

To accelerate the transition from electronic to photonic integrated circuits (PICs), a breakthrough in cost and cycle time of the manufacturing process is needed. Etteplan developed an R&D solution which accelerates the process. The solution uses a simple and efficient block-based programming interface via a standard web browser to enable users to program the production sequences themselves.

Recently, everybody has become aware of how the global lack of critical components may halt the manufacturing of goods. However, missing components are not the only risk when developing and launching a new physical product. What sorts of product development risks need to be considered, and how could they best be avoided?

When you want to develop a cool new product, you must eliminate lots of risks before launch. To illuminate this, we picked five different risk areas such as balancing between hardware and software, maturity of technology, or estimation of costs. How can these affect a development project?

Does your company still publish manuals only printed on paper or as PDF? Or more generally, are you sure your staff and customers have the technical information they need, and that it really helps them? These are crucial questions, if you are interested in boosting productivity, revenue, and customer satisfaction, and optimizing investments by entering the era of smart digital.

For most companies to keep up with shifting customer demand and new technologies, it is crucial to constantly launch new innovative products. This is true in all industries. However, MedTech product development often consumes great amounts of time and resources as the requirements of such products are not only significantly higher but also strongly regulated. In practice, this means that the development process of MedTech products comes with a greater risk of setbacks. We will address some of the most common challenges to developing MedTech products and how they can be overcome.

For delivering well designed and reliable products, using what we already have and constant search for improvements are key. Every R&D project involves reusable pieces and repetitive actions that are easy to conduct but require time – here is where automation becomes useful.

Maintenance and installation services suffer from poor availability of technical information. Machine and equipment manufacturers hurt from low investments in producing, delivering, and managing technical content. To address these problems, we created a new service called Etteplan HowTo. What is it, and what benefits does it bring for every stakeholder, from end-users to manufacturers, vendors, and service providers?

In any profitable company, the key element to remaining so is keeping an eye on cost efficiency. This is an area which can always be improved but watching your spending doesn’t mean you need to be cutting down on the quality coming from your team.