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
“Designing Knowledge Based Product Development and Implementing Chief Engineer Leader System”
Gary Kassen - Director of Engineering, Power Products Division - Eaton Corp.
Gary Kassen is cofounder of the Savvy Consortium along with Dave Klis of the Toro Company. Gary will briefly describe his product development transformation initiative that started in 05. Using set based design practices resulted in meeting development timelines. Gary will describe subsequent initiatives implemented on the transformation timeline. Development project management improvement started with chief engineer project leadership implementation. Gary will describe the business case and the “organizational” case for this initative. and impacts of this initiative. Gary will discuss the “better than expected” impact of knowledge based product development on Eaton Hydraulics’ multi country product design organization.
Vince Duray - Chief Engineer, HLA Hybrids - Eaton Corp.
Vince has launched a potentially market changing new product. Vince will describe his product vision and elements of his knowledge based product development system. He will describe knowledge flow, timelines, customer interface, tradeoff curve knowledge, ”test before design” practices, set based design concurrent engineering, virtual design, rigorous problem solving, design integration events, vendor interface, managing “lots of meeting,” project administration, and the outcome: a game changing new product. In addition, Vince will list “better than expected” contributions that drove the success of this new product project.
Jaime LeClair - Chief Engineer, Motors, Gear & Vane Products - Eaton Corp.
Jaime will describe how he engages team individuals and his process tools/methods. He will highlight customer interface, his product vision, design goals, writing executive reports, problem solving collaboration, mini-obeyas , lean project management practices in the new knowledge based product development system. Jaime will list the “better than expected” contributions coming from individuals and how the knowledge from them apply to current and future development projects.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.