Our Team
At its core, EAC is focused on helping customers improve their product development systems.
-Thane Hathaway
President and CEO
EAC Product Development Solutions
President and CEO
EAC Product Development Solutions
I'm dedicated to helping companies improve the quality of their product development system.
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Our Philosophies
Lean Product Development:
In the mid 1990’s, Toyota opened up their product development system to study by a research team from the University of Michigan. Toyota's leadership in quality, growth of market share, and superiority in creating products that customers valued suggested that one company, at least, had created a superior system for developing products. As interpretive frameworks for Toyota’s Product Development System emerged, because of the common DNA to Lean Manufacturing, the system became known as Lean Product Development...
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Learning First Product Development:This knowledge-centric product development system deploys the very best of Lean Product Development, while putting it into both system and process contexts. This implementation roadmap removes the roadblock that had stalled the Lean PD early adopters. When fully deployed, Learning First Product Development enables, in fact encourages, lots of innovation without presenting risk to the goal of on-time project completion and time-to-market.
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EAC provides the expertise of an entire staff to guide your Lean and Learning First product development initiatives.
EAC Product Development Solutions provides its customers the expertise of an entire staff of specialists. Whether your needs involve professional training and consultation, engineering and design services, product development systems implementation, or engineering and design software, we have the people and knowledge and products to help you succeed.
The EAC Product Development Management Services business unit offers a full suite of services to guide your Lean and Learning First Product Development transformation.
The EAC Product Development Management Services business unit offers a full suite of services to guide your Lean and Learning First Product Development transformation.