How can engineers rise to product development and supply chain challenges of the post-pandemic world?

Addressing the challenges and opportunities to product development and supply chain highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic will require engineers to work more collaboratively with their colleagues from other disciplines.

The coronavirus pandemic and our reaction to it demonstrated some of the limitations of contemporary supply chains, characterised by rapid changes in demand and supply disruptions. Whether it was with shortages on supermarket shelves, lack of PPE or supply of ventilators, the critical importance of this topic has come to the fore.

Equally, we saw many cases of what groups of creative people could achieve in what would normally be considered impossibly short periods of time by working together more ingeniously. The challenges and opportunities posed here were highlighted in our recent webinar Coronavirus, product design and the supply chain - prepare to think differently. Crucially the role that engineers can play in addressing some of these challenges has been highlighted.

As organisations start to settle into new patterns of working, how will you make sure that these valuable lessons are built on rather than being lost.

IMechE's Product Lifecycle training portfolio explores the underpinning principles of high performing product and supply chain development, and the processes required to enable engineers to work collaboratively with their colleagues from other disciplines across the end-to-end supply chain.  These courses have been designed to equip engineers to rise to the new challenges that organisations will be facing in the coming months and are now available for virtual delivery whilst maintaining the same high degree of delegate interaction that categorises these courses.

Design reviews
Understand how to improve the effectiveness and usefulness of the design review process, by exploring both technical and people aspects of preparing for and carrying out effective design reviews.

Design for manufacturability
Gain appreciation of how design impacts all aspects of an end-to-end supply chain. Includes additional material on manufacturing and new content on supply chain.

New product introduction
Implement practical improvements when bringing new products to market that are on time, at desired cost and to the required quality standard.

Supply chain management: Introduction
Optimise supply chain performance using key concepts and principles used in end-to-end supply chain management.

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