Alan Taracuk has been directly developing products or helping companies develop their products for over 25 years. He has considerable experience in reducing the time it takes to bring a product to market, lowering the cost of the product, and the development process, while creating more innovative products and processes.

He has led product development reengineering efforts at some of the world’s largest manufacturing companies. He is very familiar with most of the tools available to enable product development, productivity, and speed. More importantly, he has great experience and insight in dealing with the process, data, organizational, and cultural issues that need to be addressed to achieve product development improvement.

Mr. Taracuk founded Product Development Innovations LLC in 2003 to focus on helping its clients to design and implement product development change. “Innovations” relates to not only helping clients with product innovation and the innovation processes, but also to bringing innovation to the product development improvement process. From his vast experience in this area, Mr. Taracuk has learned that traditional reengineering and systems implementation approaches typically don’t work in product development, due to the relatively long cycle times and its non-transactional nature.

CONTACT

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MOBILE
(734) 646-9744

EDUCATION

MS Computer Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MS Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BA
Kalamazoo College

KEY EXECUTIVE ROLES & CLIENTS

Chrysler
Ford
General Motors
Nissan
Toyota
GE
Federal Mogul
JCI
American Axle

Functional Domain Expertise

  • Product design strategy using modular architecture
  • Value added/value engineering product design improvement
  • Early concept/quoting phase financial and engineering bills of material for quoting​
  • Lean Product Development to improve engineering efficiency, process robustness, and overall development productivity
  • Target costing and financial management systems
  • Strategy and solutions design for automotive pre-production launch process
  • Global product development process reengineering
  • Global co-ordination across engineering organizations
  • CAD/CAM/CAE/PDM strategy and implementation
  • Global PLM design, configuration, and implementation
  • CAD/CAM system migration strategy and implementation
  • Change management program design and implementation for systems implementation ​
  • Supplier quality systems for advanced quality planning documents

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