Secora Innovation Methodology
SIM aids your business to increase market share and explore untapped market segments.
SIM helps enterprises gain market share by providing a systematic method to develop new products or services. SIM includes tools to simulate the product and service delivery system.



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The first stage of SIM involves determining the needs of customers. Secora uses interviews, focus groups and surveys to gather data. Kano Analysis helps Secora prioritize these needs. Secora then translates these needs to measurable parameters, using Quality Function Deployment.

Once needs are identified, preliminary designs will be developed and alternatives evaluated, using methods such as Axiomatic Design and TRIZ.

Secora then develops a detailed design, creates a simulation to predict design performance, and finally prepares control plans to identify potential design flaws.  Design of Experiments, Taguchi Methods, Tolerance Design and Response Surface Methodology are used in developing and refining the detailed design.

Finally, Secora pilots the new design, confirms that customer requirements are met, and implements the new process, product or service.

Case Study - Logistics

Secora was engaged by a major logistics organisation to review and optimize the business processes surrounding the management of third party contractors within its IT Department.
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Case Study - Laser Welding (Automotive)

A Tier 1 European automotive supplier had major issues on a newly launched product: Failure to meet customer volume requirements; Failure to meet customer quality requirements; Massive cost overrun. Using the SLIM (Lean) Methodology Secora helped the client to solve its most prominent operational effectiveness issues and reduce internal manufacturing cost to below the original target costing, without capital investment or design change.
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What Makes a Good Project Charter?

The main output of the define phase within the DMAIC methodology is the project charter. Without having a completed project charter starting the measure phase makes little sense. Even so the DMAIC methodology gives us our project path, the project charter is responsible for where the path is to lead us.
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