New Product Development
Whether you are an entrepreneur with an idea, a small manufacturer without an engineering staff, or an experienced engineer or manager needing specific product development or process assistance, our new product development services can assist you in successfully developing products that will allow you to maximize market returns. The process starts with new product ideation and ends with commercialization. The steps include the generation of new ideas, concept validation, concept realization, engineering and prototyping, market testing /validation and product launch.
We bring you these services by partnering with best-in-class providers and integrating them into a systematic process that provides affordable, fast and efficient development of new products and markets.
How we help:
- Assist your company in the development of ideas that will ultimately lead to a list of new products and markets
- Intellectual property research
- General market and competitive analysis
- Market channel identification
- Product renderings and 3D CAD models
- Prototypes
- Primary and secondary market research
- Marketing strategy including marketing tools and branding.
Contact us at one of our regional offices:
Erie: (814) 456-6299
Jack Watts: jwatts@nwirc.org
BJ Lechner: bjlechner@nwirc.org
Meadville: (814) 572-2077
Susan Hileman: shileman@nwirc.org
DuBois: (814) 590-1219
Gene Samanka: gsamanka@nwirc.org
Mercer: (724) 699-5787
Amy Weller: aweller@nwirc.org