Research and Development Centres can be a very expensive overhead, however this need not be the case. Careful organisation and definition of roles and responsibilities can bring the various engineering activities throughout the organisation, under one umbrella area of responsibility.

The benefits of this include shared knowledge pool and technical resources that can be utilised wherever they are needed, reducing the lost opportunity of valuable engineering resources becoming periodically under utilised and under developed.

Experienced has been gained with philosophies, that are beneficial for the smaller enterprise, where human and technical resources are at a premium.

Following a period of start up investment, typically it is not unreasonable for the accounting of R&D or Technical Centre to be showing a positive contribution to the bottom line of the company, in place of the common perception that "We can't afford an engineering department so we have to make do".

If you would like to know more about the methodologies used to bring this about or to introduce cost effective engineering discipline into your organisation, contact us for no obligation discussions.