Reducing the two year dev. Time might be a very good thing.

 

how fixing distribution?

 

There now you can all be quiet.

 

interesting


there will always be naysayers and DOOM! posts though LOL

 

Sounds interesting if they really are listening then this can only be a good thing  

 

Oh snap, that's awesome news! I actually use Creo by PTC for my class work and personal work in college for CAD projects, so that's a brand I know pretty well.

 

Yeah...

 

Reduced cost of materials and improved quality will be interesting to see play out. Do they reduce cost of materials but maintain the current size/price ratio of figures? I doubt they'd start to make them "bigger" now that they've gotten us used to the current product.

 

Can't wait for smaller deluxes.

 

Yeah, and too expand, retailer relationships.

 

I don't know nearly enough about this side of things to form an opinion really. Fingers crossed for more fun products resulting.

 

Prices are going to go up. I'm all for increasing quality back to pre-recession levels, but when the prices did go up, up, up and the quality went down, down, down, it really stung. I gotta wonder how much prices will rise with the quality increase. The quality has to be good enough that the increase is worth it in the buyer's eyes.

All I really want is less errors. Less incorrect, broken, or missing parts and neater paint. Those are the only issues you'd need to improve if you're using quality materials.

 

Hasbro needs to follow LEGO's distribution/release model....
For example, Mixels series 4 is announced to be released in February.
(1-2 stores have them out a week before on accident)
Majority of store have them out the 1st/2nd week of February.
EVERYBODY can find them within 3 weeks of announced release!!!
Mixels series 5 is announced for June release.
Distribution of series 4 slows mid-May, stores may have clearance sales.
Series 5 widely available 1st/2nd week of June!!!

Everybody has plenty of opportunity to buy any/all figures they want! None of this "final wave is never seen at retail" crap, nobody buying up Viper and scalping on ebay, no "sorry, CW wave 2 won't be sold in europe".

 

This should not cause things like smaller or larger figures in and of itself. Really all it is is putting the whole process on one interconnected system, from the design engineers 3d CAD system all the way through to the factory time, materials ordering and retail pricing. So a change at any point is immediately calculated and reflected throughout.

 

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Hopefully, by having vendors go into the store and stock product that sits in the back of the stores or actually bring current product there to stock and report if the store isn't getting proper distribution of product.

There are plenty of food companies that do it.

 

Since you will always have a manufacturing phase to produce tangible three-dimensional collectibles- as well as time to get said products to market- perhaps another way to help lean out this dev. life cycle would be to bring this manufacturing back to the U.S- in whole or in large part. Unfortunately that's probably a ship that's forever sailed, as overseas sweat shops are now the norm in manufacturing across the board, but it seems like local manufacturing and distribution could help greatly. Not only would it provide stateside jobs, but could also help guarantee a better overall product. The time it takes to ship samples from China to Hasbro, to then review those samples for potential changes, and then also spot check product rolling off the assembly line can add 'fat' to the timeline. Bring all of that home and you're much closer to that side of the process. Just sayin...

 

As a technical writer, that wall of text hurt my soul. That dude spent so much time saying so little. Here is literally all that was said:

Hasbro is doing something called PTC Windchill FlexPLM.

This new thing will try to reduce cycle time,
Improve quality, Increase efficiency and process optimization, Improve regulatory compliance, and reduce direct material cost.

And no, I'm not going to give them the Faster time-to-value bullet point, because that doesn't mean anything. That's just words thrown together.

And the whole thing still doesn't really say anything and reads like a bad Dilbert cartoon. A company saying it will improve quality and regulatory compliance...wheee! I almost had an orgasm just reading it!