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
“Maintaining Momentum in Knowledge Based Product Development: Back to Basics in the Product Design Engineering”
Bob Melvin - Director of Engineering - Teledyne Benthos
Teledyne Benthos, Inc. initiated knowledge based product development in 05, followed by “test then design” practices that resulted in the “on time” release of a very successful new product . As tradeoff curves and technical knowledge A3 documents proliferated in a simple database and folders of A3s, finding the information became the constraint. Bob will describe his 09 SharePoint initiative to organize, store and provide fast search and retrieval. Bob will describe the implementation tasks required to create a site dedicated to capturing knowledge and for reuse. This system is modeled after Toyota’s engineering notebooks with check sheets on all relevant subjects. Bob Melvin’s will show check sheet layout, content, and how it is use to reduce design risk and improve engineering competence. Bob will describe his current “back to basics” product design process focus and how it fits logically with the four year implementation of the “front end” initiatives that generate fundamental engineering knowledge.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.