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
“Implementing Knowledge Based Product Development and Chief Engineer in a Marketing Driven Organization”
Dave Klis - Director of Engineering Operations – The Toro Company
Dave Klis, a cofounder of the Savvy Consortium with Gary Kassen of Eaton Hydraulics and other professional engineering managers. Dave will describe his five year transformation initiative to “let engineers be engineers.” Dave will outline his implementation and timeline for the four “pillars” described by Allen Ward. He will highlight specialized knowledge experts teams that deliver towering engineering competence to improve quality and timely product decisions. He will introduce his version of the chief development engineer system. Dave will highlight an A3 success that applies to engineering organizations required to meet complex government regulations.
Todd Rich Chief Development Engineer – The Toro Company
Todd Rich will profile his design reviews, the gated process and knowledge flow timeline. He will describe his development project admin practices, Obeya space and tools that impact design, project cost and timeline. He will describe the individual contributions of team members. Todd Rich will discuss the key elements of the process, people and tools that delivered “better than expected” results that current development projects are using to build on.
Rich Guertin Chief Development Engineer – The Toro Company
Rich completed a complex product design project that required extensive engineering design knowledge and “lean” practices , eg., clear customer outcomes, team collocation, DFMEA and related knowledge flow tools such as Sharepoint. Todd will profile his design reviews, the gated process and knowledge flow tools such as Sharepoint. He will describe his development project admin practices, Obeya space and tools that impact design, project cost and timeline. He will describe the individual contributions of team members. Todd will discuss list key elements of the process, people and tools that delivered “better than expected” results that current development projects can build on.
Tom Langworthy Chief Development Engineer – The Toro Company
Tom will describe his product development project which at first it was thought there was no market opportunity, but was launched successfully! Tom will describe the product value proposition, the design goals and the design knowledge flow. He will describe the business case timeline events starting with the technical vision, followed by product prototype performance verification that uncovered a set of tacit customer needs. In addition to development process methods and tools used, Tom will describe the impact of key contributions, by each individual on the cross functional team.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.