Motorola Solutions uses Design for Assembly software to benchmark designs and measure improvement in its global product portfolio
How good are our product designs? Are they better than past versions? How do they compare with those from other companies?
With competition in the global economy fierce, management at telecommunications-giant Motorola Solutions wanted to know the answer to these questions. It was up to Rich Darrell, engineering manager at the company’s Holtsville, NY, design center, to provide the answers. “Senior leadership challenged us to come up with a methodology for measuring whether our designs were improving,” says Darrell.