Leased products and regular maintenance

Talking about COVID-19, it had been thought to settle around this autumn. However, there is also a topic that it may not converge until the end of 2022. Working from home is almost established in companies, and new product development is also entering a new phase. In particular, the manufacturing sector has seen factory capacity utilisation fall across the board, and the results for the financial year ending March 2022 are likely to be exhausted. However, with so much anticipation for new products, it is fair to say that more and more people are rigorously assessing the quality of new products. In addition, how we purchase new products is about changing drastically. The number of purchases is shifting from expensive automobiles like before to small ones such as air purifiers by leasing.

Given this, I can say that the basic idea of new product development will also change significantly. In other words, if that is a leased product, you can check for product defects with regular maintenance, so you do not have to consider the conventional 5-year or 10-year warranty system at the time of development. It is because it needs only necessary to build a mechanism that allows the defective parts to be replaced by regular maintenance.

The advent of leased products and the revival of partial optimisation theory

So how will new product development change with the rise of leasing products? It shall be a method of removing the iron enclosure called quality assurance at once, that is, the revival of partial optimisation theory. It does not mean that we can cut corners on quality control but instead rank the quality of parts according to their regular maintenance.

“Working From Home” is also encouraged in the manufacturing industry; thus, it isn’t easy to keep following the traditional manufacturing process. I would say that the more we try to do so, the more challenging to put the business on the line.