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Rapid Product Development (RPD) is a culture of manufacture which accelerates the development of new products, from the initial design stage through to completion and mass production, in the shortest timescales possible.
This culture uses new technologies to promote the reduction of time, including the utilisation of 3D CAD CAM, Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling and the use of Management Techniques which streamline the manufacturing process.
The utilisation of RPD not only allows companies to put new products into manufacture in short timescales, it also reduces the development costs for new products.
Companies across the world are finding these techniques to be extremely beneficial and they are being adopted at an ever increasing rate. From large Multinationals to small SME's, the benefits of RPD are striking.
The Rapid Product Development Group is dedicated to promoting the techniques of RPD to industry and via educational institutions to students.
The Group is unique in that it is able to provide the most comprehensive range of skills, equipment and technologies available anywhere in the UK. It can help companies to become more competitive by significantly reducing the time to market of new products by up to 70%, and is promoting RPD as a career and as a taught subject in schools, colleges and universities.
At the Group's official launch in October 2001, the Minister for Science and Innovation, Lord Sainsbury, joined businesses and industry representatives to discuss how the Group promotes the techniques of super fast product development to industry and education institutions. Read the full article here. |
