Tuesday October 5, 2010
Savvy Seminar I: The 21st Century Product Development System: Agile, Flexible, and Waste Free
This half day seminar introduces the essential elements of the 21st Century product development system which product development organizations in the manufacturing sector are adapting. More recently referred to as “agile product development,” some call it flexible product development while a few call it “lean” product development. Fundamentally, this is a system in which skilled, technical knowledge workers generate product designs, develop the designs for timely manufacture and launch to satisfy 21st Century customer demands for high quality/performance.
Deliverables include ten large visuals of the system and its key components. A glossary of terms and a leader’s reference plan are included with instruction how to introduce the system to colleagues.
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TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
COST: $249
Cost: gratis (underwritten by The Toro Company)
This seminar presents A3 thinking and tools in current use with product design teams . The problem solving A3 , design intent A3, knowledge brief A3 will be presented along with twelve other variants. The use of A3 in a phased and gated process will be highlighted. The impact of A3 thinking/practice on product design, people performance, process improvement and project waste reduction will be included.
Deliverables include A3 formats and samples.
AFTERNOON SESSION
TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
COST: FREE
Lean Product Development Conference VII
“Knowledge Wins - Chief Engineer Leads”
October 7-8, 2009 Minneapolis
“Knowledge Wins - Chief Engineer Leads”
October 7-8, 2009 Minneapolis
“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.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.