Design, engineer and scale products from silicon to factory floor with integrated development and manufacturing excellence

Product Development and Manufacturing

Operations Strategy

Overview

Product innovation is accelerating while complexity, cost, and quality expectations continue to rise. We help organizations connect product strategy, engineering, silicon design and manufacturing into a coordinated lifecycle — from concept through scale. By integrating digital engineering, advanced manufacturing, connected product design, and next-generation hardware capabilities, we help reduce time to market, improve product performance, and build more resilient, scalable operations.


Market trends

57%

of operations and supply chain leaders say they have integrated AI into selected functions or throughout their organization

Source https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/consulting/supply-chain-operations/digital-supply-chain-survey.html
42%

of CEOs say their company has begun competing in new sectors over the past five years, increasing product complexity

Source https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/c-suite-insights/ceo-survey.html
49%

of executives expect their operations to be fully modular by 2030

Source https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/industrial-products/library/future-of-industrial-products.html

Capabilities

Manufacturing strategy and excellence

Design and operate manufacturing facilities built for performance, resilience, and growth. We help organizations optimize footprints and improve plant-level execution through operational excellence, digital manufacturing, automation, and quality transformation. By integrating data, AI connected factory technologies, and enabling the digital worker of tomorrow we strengthen performance, reliability and scalability from strategy through the shop floor.

Physical product development and innovation

Advance products from concept through commercialization with integrated R&D, engineering and lifecycle execution. We help organizations define product strategy, enhance portfolios, modernize R&D and development processes, and strengthen product lifecycle management (PLM) to industrialize new products at scale. By aligning system architecture, digital engineering and supply chain readiness, we accelerate time to market while reducing cost, complexity and performance risk.

Connected products and hardware engineering

Design and deliver connected physical products that integrate hardware, embedded systems, and cloud-enabled intelligence. We help organizations develop secure, scalable devices — from concept and prototyping, through validation and production readiness and scaling. We can help innovate new products, optimized for performance, reliability, and competitive cost position, or deliver cost intelligence insights to help refine your existing products.

Silicon design and advanced engineering

Enable next-generation products through end-to-end silicon and hardware engineering. We support semiconductor and embedded system design, validation and integration to help organizations deliver secure, high-performance products at scale.


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Russell Rasmus

Lead - Product Development, Manufacturing and Connected Products & Solutions Advisory, PwC US

Brian Gilbert

Operations Transformation Digital Leader, PwC US

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