Uploaded on Apr 14, 2022
As technology and innovation are disrupting business models, many non-IT professionals need to be aware of certain concepts in order to have a successful corporate career and be effective on their work. One such topic is product engineering.
Introduction to Product Engineering Services
Introduction to Product Engineering Services
Anil Janardhanan
Writes for Gadgeon.com,
IoT software development services from Gadgeon
and Gadgeon-IoT software development company
As technology and innovation are disrupting business models, many non-
IT professionals need to be aware of certain concepts in order to have a
successful corporate career and be effective on their work. One such topic
is product engineering.
The life cycle of a product has several phases, as products may require
regular updates and adjustments. First step in the development of a
product is the generation of a business viable idea - many times it could
be taking a disruptive innovation or new concept to the market. Business
process many have to be developed from scratch. This could involve
multiple complexities involved especially in scenarios like – launching a
totally new product; or an extension to a new market segment or
geography etc. In such situations, product engineering services from a
technology partner can come to the rescue.
What is Product Engineering Service?
Product engineering services involves the processes of innovation &
ideation, design, prototyping, development, testing, and deployment.
However, these are challenging tasks for many enterprises. They requires
larger investments, technology talent, tools, access to market, sustained
engineering effort, adoption of newer development process & tools, and
so on. Today’s world technical resources are in short-supply and with
limited bandwidth enterprises will really struggle with new product
initiatives. This is when companies to hire Product Engineering Services
(PES) from a reputed technology partner, who help them address the
above challenges.
The product engineering service providers have specialized manpower
with the right technical skills & experience to help their client companies
to tackle the challenges associated with product engineering.
Product Life cycle Phases
Product engineering services from a reliable partner should get integrated
well with the company’s in-house activities. Most of the leading service
providers follow a well-organized and step-by-step approach. Here are
some key stages of product engineering services:
• Understand the needs
Product Ideation & creation of
Journey maps
Business lean canvas
Value chain analysis
Riskiest assumptions
• Look, reach out & Listen to:
Real end users
Known customers
Industry professionals
Understand the industry trends
Understand and document the user stories and workflows
• Architecture & Prototyping
• Design & development of Prototypes
• Validate
Riskiest assumptions
User stories and workflows
• Implementation of Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• QA & testing
• MVP delivery & Enhancements
• Maintenance & Support
Benefits of Outsourcing the Product Engineering Services
The technology market is growing faster and becoming very competitive,
forcing companies to find and utilize every advantage they can.
Outsourcing Product engineering services offer several benefits to
enterprises like:
• Optimum cost for product and service development
• Business agility to respond to market changes
• Lower time to market
• Competitive advantages
• Greater customization to variety of Customer segments
Conclusion
The competition is not getting easier and in order to stay competitive in
today’s digital world, enterprises are expected to conceptualize, develop,
and launch products, solutions and services quicker and with agility. The
importance and popularity of product engineering services are on the
rise, with more and more enterprises across the globe and across
industries are leveraging product engineering services (PES).
About Gadgeon
Gadgeon is known for its expertise in Industrial IoT and engineering
excellence. We connect devices, operations, and processes to create
business value, and revolutionize enterprises with the power of data. As
an end-to-end technology services company, we successfully enabled the
digital journey of customers with critical digital services ranging from
embedded systems, cloud app development, mobile app development,
data & analytics, application modernization, emerging technology based
solutions, and testing & test automation across the industries such as
connected factory, telecom & datacom, digital healthcare, CSPs, and
home & building automation.
Thank you for time in reading this article!
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