Collaborative product development
APTEC has a proven history as a leader in collaborative product development processes. Our simple application service provider model will quickly get your team collaborating securely via the internet. We provide the expertise for a positive collaboration experience and all of the hosting hardware and software. Its easier and more cost effective than you think to start realizing the benefits of collaboration product development today!
The APTEC product development portfolio is a unique and modular collection of bundled services forming a complete package of performance resources. Our business process approach combines talent from every discipline required for a program from marketing, industrial design ideation and embodiment to the rigors of electro-mechanical design and international tooling supplier and manufacturing facilities development. We can deliver a simple one off hand sketch or high end Moldflow analysis, or we can scale up to take a concept through to mass production in mainland China if that’s the kind of performance you need. The current business climate is in the midst of a dramatic change driving the best run companies to focus on their core competencies and outsource the rest. APTEC is a solution meeting the need to do more than ever with less resources that can be increasingly stretched around the world. Unlike traditional design resources, APTEC focus is analytical and manufacturing based as opposed to abstract and concept based. We develop desirable and highly profitable products through a structured and proven development process as well as offer breakthrough product ideas to our clients.
Our service offerings are based around three primary groups each can be delivered in stand alone services or combined to deliver complete performance:
The iCom Collaborative Product Development Suite Proven, award winning and internationally published, the iCom web enabled tools and technologies are one of the secrets to our extraordinary success in never before possible delivery performance. Collaboration is used by teams that are geographically dispersed , proactively incorporate important information, and expertise (customers, suppliers, and contractors). Use different technology tools.Collaboration is used most effectively early in the design process, where changes are least expensive to make. (design reviews, data and results reviews)
iSystem – The ultimate business process for product development Business focus and absolute discipline are among the ingredients that make iSystem the main stay of everything we do. Teaming great people with state of the art technologies requires this kind of focus. iSystem is how we run our business making it tough and proven and its how we run your program making it a complete and unparallel success.
A more powerful approach to product development is to put the focus on developing profits; that’s what makes the business process of product development a driving force for any fast growth company and why APTEC understands and serves our clients around the world who recognize the need for a performance resource that systematically delivers on the bottom line.Compelling innovation and stylish designs are only the beginnings of a great product. Having the discipline to convert your great ideas into a profitable reality is what fuels the future of your company. Compelling, innovative and stylish, that’s thinking big. Delivering them all six times as fast, with half the investment, that’s getting it done – APTEC style.
The Performance Resource for Fast Growth Companies delivers its unique brand of product development to our clients as a Strategic Business Process. Our focus is on helping clients improve the efficiency and results of their product development efforts, by utilizing a proprietary product development system (the APTEC iSystem) that integrates and leverages a culture of business focused innovation and speed to market success.Through a dynamic formula of people, methods & technology our integrated product development system delivers the ultimate performance with extraordinary results for our team and clients worldwide.Our philosophies and discipline were derived from the structured product development environment of the automotive industry.The majority of our team has spent many hours on the manufacturing floor and understands the importance of designing a product for manufacturing.
The APTEC client list is a roster of more than 150 companies representing most major industry sectors. We are extensively involved with work for automotive and consumer product OEM's, consumer and marine electronics companies, telecommunications companies and the alternative energy industry. Early on we focused on the back end of the product development process (mechanical design and manufacturing) to help improve the profitability of our clients. As we grew and evolved we acquired the front end (Industrial Design and concept development) and learned to integrate this aspect into our structured process. This is why we say we grew up a bit different than most engineering service firms.We believe that our people and the years of refining our product development system for consumer product markets are the fundamental reasons why APTEC is so successful at delivering highly profitable products to market with speed and efficiency anywhere in the world for our clients. Our mission is to provide OEMs with creative and dependable product development expertise to rapidly deliver ideas to market.
Please take a moment and browse our site to see the proof of concept in some of the world’s biggest and well known companies and learn more about the unique tools and methods that we will apply to develop your idea. Then contact us so that you can leave the bottlenecks and baggage of your traditional product development resources behind, and let us help you think big AND get it done as your performance resource for fast growth.
