Interesting discussion and there are plenty of valid points.
I have also encountered several times similar kind of cases, so I would reassure the original poster to look for some kind of certainties in the research field that assures that they are having some level of process awareness.
Not because of any standards rather of common sense and enhancing business benefits of increased process awareness.
Unless there is a planned approach how to transfer projects from research to let say “development” there is always a headache at the end.
Plenty of times research produces something that becomes palatable for sales and there is a very limited time to apply safety measures and to enhance product (prototype) maturity therefore there is a narrow and slippery slope only for “design”.
Being too lengthy here, so my recollection would be that it would be beneficial to look into product development as a whole that includes research, design, whatever and then see if it really fit for purpose (recall tendencies, level of customer satisfaction, etc.) to determine if the scrutiny applied to research activities are really the ones that help the business.
To be honest I am looking less and less into standards. I am tired of them and help more or less none for me. Reasoning with common sense however helps lot more whilst dealing with research/development engineers ...
Cheers!
I have also encountered several times similar kind of cases, so I would reassure the original poster to look for some kind of certainties in the research field that assures that they are having some level of process awareness.
Not because of any standards rather of common sense and enhancing business benefits of increased process awareness.
Unless there is a planned approach how to transfer projects from research to let say “development” there is always a headache at the end.
Plenty of times research produces something that becomes palatable for sales and there is a very limited time to apply safety measures and to enhance product (prototype) maturity therefore there is a narrow and slippery slope only for “design”.
Being too lengthy here, so my recollection would be that it would be beneficial to look into product development as a whole that includes research, design, whatever and then see if it really fit for purpose (recall tendencies, level of customer satisfaction, etc.) to determine if the scrutiny applied to research activities are really the ones that help the business.
To be honest I am looking less and less into standards. I am tired of them and help more or less none for me. Reasoning with common sense however helps lot more whilst dealing with research/development engineers ...
Cheers!
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