Consulting for product development
Reduce time to market, cut costs, and strengthen your organization
Manufacturing companies face increasing pressure to innovate. Long development cycles, rising costs, and complex market requirements are eroding competitiveness. Since 1986, TMG Consultants in Stuttgart has been helping industrial companies accelerate product development processes, reduce R&D costs, and make development organizations more efficient. We combine strategy, structure, and implementation to deliver measurable results from research and development through to production readiness.
TMG at a glance
Our services at a glance
Targeted optimization of research & development
R&D Consulting: Efficiently structuring Research and Development
Many development departments operate under heavy workloads but lack clear transparency regarding efficiency and management. With the TMG R&D Performance Check, we identify opportunities for optimization in organization, project management, and controlling.
We create structures that accelerate innovation and reduce costs.
Strategically align the product portfolio
Product Portfolio Optimization: Reducing complexity
An overloaded product portfolio ties up capital and stifles innovation. TMG Consultants analyzes your products, reduces variants, and develops platform-based strategies that lower costs and create focus. The result is a portfolio aligned with market needs and corporate strategy.
Targeted reduction of time to market
Accelerating Product Development Processes (PDP)
When new products reach the market too late, the company loses momentum and revenue. TMG Consultants designs your product development process to be efficient and transparent. With maturity models, agile requirements management, and simultaneous engineering, you significantly shorten development times and ensure quality. This turns innovation into predictable market success.
Your experienced partner
Why TMG Consultants?
For nearly four decades, TMG has been helping industrial companies improve their development and production systems. The consulting team brings extensive experience in product development and industrial engineering to the table.
TMG Consultants is a partner for companies seeking to strengthen their development organization, stabilize processes, and shorten innovation cycles. The goal is product development that operates efficiently, utilizes resources effectively, and enables innovation on a sustainable basis.
Our strengths:
- Extensive experience in mechanical engineering, the automotive industry, and technology-oriented sectors
- Extensive expertise in value analysis and value engineering
- Consultants with backgrounds in R&D and industrial engineering
- Methodological expertise in PEP, platform development, and R&D project management
- Projects with clearly defined objectives, KPI-based management, and verifiable results
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Consulting in Product Development
Why is optimizing product development strategically crucial?
Efficient development processes determine how quickly innovations are transformed into marketable products. Optimized processes shorten time-to-market, reduce costs, and strengthen competitiveness.
Companies that systematically improve their development capabilities secure a long-term innovation advantage and revenue stability.
How can time-to-market be specifically shortened?
A detailed analysis of the product development process reveals bottlenecks and interface issues. Simultaneous engineering enables parallel workflows, agile methods ensure flexibility, and maturity models ensure quality.
This measurably reduces development times without compromising product quality or customer value.
How can development risks be identified and mitigated early on?
Risk assessments, maturity models, and milestone logic are integrated throughout the entire process. Benchmarking and scenario analyses make technological or scheduling risks visible early on.
This increases project stability, reduces follow-on costs, and makes the development organization more resilient.
How can costs in research and development be measurably reduced?
Cost reduction is achieved through consistent prioritization, value engineering, and design-to-cost. Data-driven portfolio streamlining reduces variant diversity and process overhead
The result is lower material costs, more stable margins, and financial leeway for innovation.
How can an R&D organization be successfully restructured?
A clear definition of roles, responsibilities, and decision-making paths makes development organizations manageable. Centralized control is combined with decentralized technical expertise, and KPI systems create transparency.
Companies gain flexibility and innovation capacity without losing operational stability.
How can new development processes be integrated into existing IT landscapes?
ERP, PLM, and CAD systems are reviewed for interfaces and data flows.
Supplementary tools or customizations enable a seamless flow of information across all development phases.
Investments in existing systems remain protected, while data quality and process speed increase.
How is the success of consulting measures assessed?
Results can be evaluated based on development times, product costs, innovation rates, and quality metrics. Standardized KPI sets and regular reporting highlight progress and deviations.
This makes the ROI of the measures transparent and verifiable to the executive board or supervisory board.
How can sustainability and legal requirements be integrated into product development?
ESG requirements, CO₂ targets, and supply chain guidelines are already taken into account in the concept phase. Value engineering combined with resource-efficient design reduces material and energy costs.
In this way, companies meet regulatory requirements while simultaneously strengthening their market and brand position.
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