[design]COMM
For managing end-item engineering from bill of material
to prototype development and testing
- Manage product &D through sourcing I one central command
- Improve the management of your activities from solicitations through testing
- Improve visibility & control of design and engineering processes
- Manage bill of materials within your requirements
- Collaborate and manage qualified vendors
- Increase the productivity of product development, sourcing and logistics
- Access complete product data information anytime, anywhere
INTEGRATING DESIGN MANAGEMENT WITH PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT IS THE NEXT CHALLENGE
With DesignCOMM, product development and sourcing is elevated to a collaborative partnership between members of the acquisition lifecycle. DesignCOMM brings together people and information and supports key acquisition lifecycle stages and processes.
Lifecycle Stages:
- Product Research & Development
- Product Material Sourcing
- Product Pricing
- Product Testing
- Product Prototyping
- Product Manufacturing
- Product Logistics
- Product Fielding
[design]COMM Features:
- Manages product development across multiple vendors, colors and bill of material structures
- Real time collaboration leveraging the web through the DesignCOMM Portal
- Supports the visualization of end-items throughout the product development lifecycle
- Manages the complexity of product requirements, testing and prototyping
- Manages product and material specification and testing
- Supports product libraries with powerful search capabilities
- Systems architecture that supports the distribution of work among distributed facilities
- Management of engineering and product development results
- Well-defined product folders that can be viewed by all authorized personnel
[design]COMM Benefits:
- Rapid return on investment
- Rich design management features for products
- Robust configuration management of design activities
- Customer friendly software as service subscription
- Rapid technology updates of existing products
- Decreases costs of clothing and equipment product development
- Increases control of acquisition, RD&E and sustainment activities
- Rapid deployment and configuration
- Flexible Configuration options
- Intuitive user interface