Munro's powerful Design Profit® 5.0 is an industry leading software that allows you to quantify and track every aspect of your design and re-designs. It includes the power of Munro's patented Lean Design ® and Quality Reprt Card® and it builds the business cases that guide your product development for maximum value, quality and profit.
Design Profit® Executive Overview:
Lean Design ® & Quality Report Card® Methodologies
As the Munro Shadow Chart illustrates, product design is where most of a company’s potential for productivity and profit lies. Munro & Associates developed the Design Profit® suite of tools Lean Design ® & Quality Report Card® to attack poor Quality and excessive cost at the root cause; design. Munro will address other forms of waste however the design will always be our prime focus because of the immense leverage attainable. Why wait to reduce waste cost and poor Quality after spending money and resources on tooling, floor space training etc when it can be eliminated up-front on the CAD tube? Why expend resources to optimize the assembly of a part that should be eliminated in the design, along with all of its assembly time, material cost, fabrication time and tooling, Quality and logistics costs? The true power of any manufacturing organization to drive profitability lies within the walls of the Engineering organization.
Lean Design ® is Munro & Associates’ signature process. No one in the world has had attained more success or acclaim than Munro when it comes to refining products. Our processes consistently net higher profit and customer satisfaction than all other techniques combined.
Lean Design ® identifies all the manufacturing inhibiters such as Poka Yoke problems & ergonomic issues before they become a problem on the floor. Lean Design ®, coupled with our internal software program TechTransfer™ will reduce costs from the concept through detail design phases. A Key objective will be to integrate as many functions into the fewest parts as economically viable. By combining, not eliminating, functionality and features and delight customers with less manpower, fewer parts and greatly reduced quality issues.
Quality Report Card® (QRC®):
In our quest to capture and thereby influence all Profit drivers, Munro & Associates realized that no tool adequately quantified Quality with a meaningful metric – one which had a $ sign in front of it, allowing quality to be included in the business decision making process. To fill this void, in 1994, Munro & Associates, Inc. created the predictive tool Quality Report Card® (QRC®).
Dr. Ed Deming, the Quality Master who helped the Japanese achieve world class Quality, stated, “Quality improves as variation decreases” and Sandy Munro had often said “all variation comes from the design”. The QRC® provides a new tool for data-driven management methods that rely on the gathering and quantification of Quality data to develop new product designs, prioritize process improvement activity, and drive toward Best in Class ‘First Time Right’ rates.
QRC® is designed to be used at the design phase as well as on the factory floor.
Munro utilizes these two techniques on new product development, to establish its customers as World Class Quality Manufacturing companies. They set the standard for everyone else to try and follow.
TechTransfer™ “technology differentiation to ensure market domination”
To assist in providing a wide variety of solutions to the problems identified in the Lean Design ® & Quality Report Card® analyses, Munro has created a vast library of technical information and data from varied industries including aerospace, defense, medical, automotive, heavy industry, etc.
We are able to take this information and cross-pollinate our customers’ products with new and innovative materials and process solutions for product improvement from other industries. For instance, by using a well-known aircraft technology, we helped the automobile industry reduce weight by 30% on an instrument panel; then reversed the process to bring automobile technology to the defense industry to reducing a missile price by 40%.
A selection of new manufacturing process, material, and application technologies are readily available for reviewed on any type of application. Munro & Associates maintains a Technology Transfer Center and a proprietary software package (TechTransfer™) to assist in the implementation of new design and manufacturing solutions. By utilizing cutting edge techniques from cross-industry sources our customers are able to leap frog all competitors stuck with old, costly, poor Quality techniques.
"Munro® services and techniques have provided DICKEY-john® a demonstrated pay back in terms of higher margins through reduced parts and operations of our agricultural and off-road products. The software provides an essential tool during Lean Design ® events and subsequent design analysis. Munro® software personnel have supported us very well from the earliest releases to today, implementing new features that have significantly enhanced the effectiveness of our events. These enhancements include but are not limited to new reports, customizable analysis tools, and file sharing features. The 5.0 release provides the most significant enhancements to date. We look very forward to supplementing our events with the new features and with better quality analysis using the QRC® functionality."
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QRC® is a registered trademark of Munro & Associates, Inc.
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