ABTF Area of Expertise:
Development & Design
In the field of development, we support our clients from the initial idea through to a market-ready solution.
Our interim managers support you in
- product development (components and systems),
- process development,
- organizational and corporate development.
In this way, we accelerate innovation and strengthen your innovative capacity.
Integrated Product Development – Holistic and Market-Oriented
By integrated product development, we mean the entire process that begins with the systematic identification of all requirements:
- Customer requirements
- Market and competitive requirements
- Economic conditions
- Technical requirements
- Specifications from standards and regulations
- Aesthetic aspects, provided they offer added value
With a methodical, proven approach, we guide you through all phases of product and process development, from inception to market entry and beyond. This results in solutions that are compelling both technically and economically. Our structured methodology ensures that development times and costs remain within budget and that defined goals are reliably achieved.
Experience, Methodology, and Passion
With our extensive and in-depth experience in product and process development, we quickly achieve decisive improvements across a wide variety of organizational structures. Driven by a passion for better solutions, we also support you in optimizing your development organization.
We know the key levers for bringing products to market faster and making development processes more efficient and effective. Even in the early stages of product development, we set the course for faster time-to-market and optimal utilization of development resources.
Our Support for Your Success
We assist you in managing complex development projects:
- Establishing and leading temporary development teams Is your market analysis forcing you to pursue product developments for which you lack available capacity? Do you only want to create temporary development capacity?
- Leading product development teams Do you need the broad experience and deep understanding of external experts? Do you lack a suitable candidate within your own ranks? Is your client forcing you to replace the current team leader? Do you lack the expertise for standards and certifications?
We also support you in optimizing development and business processes:
- Manufacturing processes: Are you unable to identify where your bottlenecks lie? Is it unclear which work steps involve the greatest waste? Can your shop floor be optimized? Do you want all manufacturing steps to be part of a continuous and measurable improvement process?
- Development processes Are you making the transition from small to medium or large-scale production runs? Has your development process “grown” and now requires a clear structure? Do you see room for improvement in your decisions regarding whether or not to launch a development project?
- All other business processes Do you usually have the wrong items in stock? Are you struggling with supplier issues? Would you like to systematically leverage incoming complaints?
Typical Projects / Case Studies: Development & Design
Case Study
Development Project for a Mid-Sized Supplier
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Our Industry Focus
We specialize in management roles in the automotive, mechanical engineering, and defense industries.
Our range of services covers manufacturers and suppliers from the following industry segments:
- Passenger cars
- Motorcycles
- Commercial and specialty vehicles, including defence
- Aviation technology, including defence
- Rail technology
- Suppliers from the mechanical engineering, metal and plastics processing, mechatronics, and electronics industries, as well as software development