“Transforming the ’Unplanned’ Engineering Request Practices to Achieve Level Process Flow”
Judd Clark - Principal Engineer- Altec Industries
Creating a leveled product design engineering process flow system is a “back to basics” requirement and key principle for lean product development organizations - (Morgan/Liker). “Unplanned” design engineering requests were a problem at Altec, designers and manufacturers of equipment for electric utility, telecommunications and contractor markets. Altec decided to analyze the unplanned request practices that overloaded the pipeline in order to initiate solutions. Judd Clark will describe tools such as “cost of delay estimate” thinking/practice, visual project management tools, and “value based” prioritization practices. Judd will describe how these tools changed the practices for managing large numbers of product engineering requests of various sizes, scopes and complexity. Judd will describe this system implementation, its timeline and the improved schedules, pipeline capacity, project costs, product quality and increases in productivity.
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