“MANAGING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN 2009"
Thursday December 17, 2009 - Minneapolis
Savvy is a consortium of product development engineering leaders. Savvy offers a timely symposium for product development engineering leaders to address the questions:
How are product development engineering leaders getting their arms around this economic uncertainty? What tools are they implementing? What initiatives do they have underway to:
1. Implement product cost reductions for long-term financial viability.
2. Eliminate waste in order to do meet schedules with fewer resources and constrained budgets.
3. Continuously engage technical knowledge workers to improve their performance quality.
4. Ensure continued flow in the product development pipeline.
5. Implement “Knowledge based” lean product development.
This is a “must attend” symposium for individuals who do want to benchmark the initiatives of others. Leaders know that they cannot engage their people, projects and processes in isolation given the uncertainty.
Plan to get answers and implement useful knowledge about how others address changing management expectations, customer value expectations and simultaneously implement change.
The symposium content will draw on the results of the Savvy Chicago symposium in March.
Savvy Symposium
Thursday December 17, 2009 2:30-5:00 PM
Symposium Cost: $40.00
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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.