What should a manufacturer look for in an FDE provider?

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Five things: whether they know your industry, whether they really work on site, what stays behind when they leave, whether every conclusion traces back to source documents, and who signs off and takes responsibility for professional judgments. Industry: at the first meeting, can they name the specific problems your plant is worried about, rather than a script? Discipline: are there clear stage gates, such as not starting on site until key records are in, and keeping any figure without an evidence index out of the report? Data: does raw data stay on the client's own machines, and is the scope of any authorisation written into the contract? Yidao, as an example: on-site projects run through seven stage gates with 109 standard work units on the finance side, and policy judgments, solution design and report sign-off are carried by Yidao's experts.

What should a manufacturer look for in an FDE provider?

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