Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Plexus
Search every verified Oliver Mihm interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2013 interview, Oliver Mihm, then Vice President of Global Engineering Solutions at Plexus, described the company as a "product realization services provider" that handles conceptualization, design, manufacturing, fulfillment, and sustaining solutions for OEMs. Mihm noted a shift in product development toward incorporating end-user needs earlier in the cycle, stating that "instead of waiting till later in the cycle to pull those needs in, we're recognizing that upfront during that conceptualization you've got to go out there, meet the end user, pull those requirements in." He attributed this change to time-to-market pressures and the goal of creating a more successful product.
“Plexus is a product realization services provider so that includes doing the upfront conceptualization design work, commercialization, manufacturing products, providing fulfillment strategies and then sustaining solutions once the product's in the marketplace.”
“We're seeing a much greater shift towards needing to pull in end user needs or even how the product is going to be sustained in the marketplace once it's been deployed, and there's a recognition that with time to market pressures today, the product development cycle has to be efficient.”
“Instead of waiting till later in the cycle to pull those needs in, we're recognizing that upfront during that conceptualization you've got to go out there, meet the end user, pull those requirements in and make that a firm piece of the trajectory of the intended goal for that particular product.”
“That approach is going to create a product that's going to be much more successful in the marketplace.”
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