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
“Product Development as a Knowledge Factory: A paradigm of a basic, knowledge creation system”
Todd Stute - Program Manager, Corporate Quality - Seagate Corporation
Product development leadership is under tremendous pressure to generate new products as sources of revenue and profitability while dealing with a shrinking resource base (due to layoffs), ever-changing customer requirements and market expectations for faster time-to-market cycles.
According to the late Dr. Allen Ward, the purpose of a product development process is to transform organizational knowledge into operational value streams that can efficiently deliver products and services to customers. Vital to this task, scientific information and engineering knowledge are the basic building blocks for product development. In his presentation, Todd will introduce a simple visual paradigm of a knowledge factory, a product development system built upon knowledge generation and flow.
Since knowledge factories are analogous to their operational brethren, Todd will demonstrate how standard Lean practices currently used for operational communication, work flow and resource management also have direct application within a development environment.
The presentation will cover both the theoretical underpinnings as well as practical results from the real-life application of A3’s, integrating events, glass walls, theory of constraints and value-added analysis in engineering environments. Todd will also introduce a system of management behaviors that encourage engineers and scientists to take responsibility for continuous improvement.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.