Examples of BFA Consulting Services
BFA support to organizations spans multiple phases of product engineering involvement, beginning with early product planning and continuing through program execution, product launch and continuous improvement.
Contact BFA to discuss your needs and review how BFA can help you reach your goals.
Lend Experience and Background to Your Leadership Efforts
Elevate Your Organization’s Capability
Improve Execution of Your Programs
- Technical Coaching – Basic through Detailed
- Market Assessment
- Strategic Product Planning
- Current Product Growth and Application Expansion, including Globalization
- Manufacturing and Supplier Strategy Development
- Product Quality, Reliability and Durability Improvement
- Product Cost Reduction
- Field Logistics and Product Support
- Training and Coaching – Basic through Advanced: Systems, Sub-Systems, Components
- Coaching in use of Best Engineering Practices and Standardized Work
- Benchmarking and Reverse Engineering Processes
- Integration and Interface Management Processes
- Analysis & Simulation Techniques — Levels 1, 2, and 3
- Development and Validation — Physical, Virtual and Hybrid
- Expert Deep Design Review Process
- Engineering Throughput Improvement — Speed and 1st Time Quality
- Communication Targets and Processes
- New Product Development
- Opportunity Identification
- Setting Key Requirements, Targets, Specifications
- Concept Generation and Concept Selection
- Full Scale Engineering / Design, Development and Validation
- New Product Release and Production Launch
- Current Product Improvement
- Rating Increases, New Features and Expanded Applications
- Quality / Reliability / Durability Improvement
- Cost Reduction: Unit Cost, Warranty Cost, Life Cycle Cost
- Program Management to Assure Product Design Quality, Schedule and Project Cost Balance and Control
BFA is highly flexible relative to commercial arrangements, typically able to quickly align with your organization’s policies and practices. Costs are competitive with North American executive consultancies, reflecting minimum overhead and internal allocation needs.
Commercial arrangements range from Firm Fixed Price through Cost Plus Time and Material arrangements — all based on mutually acceptable approaches driven by scope, objectives, timing, and minimum administrative burden. BFA is comfortable with industry-typical information protection agreements.
Likewise, BFA is experienced operating with U.S. Government protocols such as ITAR and EAR.