“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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“Challengine Times! Change Requires FLEXIBILITY and SPEED at Toyota”
SAVVY Consortium Conference VI
A “tectonic” shift has occurred for a growing number of product development engineering organizations. The shift is to a lean product development system called “knowledge based” product development. This shift has made visible the most valuable assets of the product development organizations: the knowledge workers and the knowledge they generate to develop new products. The transformation to knowledge based lean product development systems offers the best opportunity for continuous improvements in product quality and organization productivity.
Savvy Conference VI “Knowledge Wins” features six engineering leaders presenting their “lived experiences” as early adopters of knowledge based lean product design and development patterned after the Toyota Design and Development System. The engineering leaders will describe reasons for implementing the system: to satisfy customers with timely, quality new products successfully in most economic environments. They will describe how they learned the elements of the Toyota lean product development system. They will explain the “K Factors” embodied in the Toyota product development system.
The “K Factors” The “K Factors” essential to Toyota’s Lean Product Development System include:
Focus on customers’ value expectations
A3 learning processes
Set based design concurrent engineering
Towering competence development organizations
Process problem solving rigor
Visual project team resources: Obeya space and A3 visual documents
Continuous improvement from waste reduction
Project management using the chief engineer model
Value stream mapping process
Convergent design decision making process
Voice of the Customer process
Lamda learning cycle: Look-Ask-Model-Discuss-Act
Pull/ push knowledge flow management
Savvy Consortium Conference VI engineering leaders will describe their implementation of these K Factors. The year 2009 promises real challenges for applying their K Factors: weak market demand, economic uncertainty, rationed resources, individual motivations, and the imperative to improve productivity.
Savvy Consortium Conference VI speakers will discuss their key tasks in learning and implementing the K Factors that achieve 2X-4X improvements:
better customer-satisfying new products
higher quality new products
reduced design failures
reduced project risk
lower product costs
speeding up decisions with timely engineering knowledge
meeting their schedules
2X increases in productivity
Savvy Consortium Lean Product Development Conference VI
To demonstrate the product/market versatility of Toyota’s System for product innovation, engineering design and development for production, Savvy Consortium Conference VI will highlight invasive medical products, commercial refrigeration product/markets, computer disc drive systems, rubber technology applications, and special enclosure products.
Keynote Speaker: Michael Daprile, Executive Vice President- Toyota Motor Corporation USA.
Mike Daprile will describe essential management practices, used at Toyota, that product development engineering leaders globally can benchmark, understand, interpret, adapt and implement in their organizations.
Featured Speaker: Joseph Klein, Senior Engineering Manager, Medtronic, Inc.
“A Comprehensive Implementation of the Toyota Practices – Medtronic’s Two Year Journey”
Transforming a cardiac rhythm disease management product development organization that delivered strong revenue and profit growth for over 20 years offers real challenges. Joe Klein will describe the imperatives, improvement goals and initiatives that meet the challenges. Joe and his team selected twelve areas of product development thinking/practice that needed improvement. He describe knowledge worker productivity improvement practices. This full system Medtronic initiative will give conference participants an excellent roadmap for their transformation to knowledge based product development.
“Implementing Knowledge Based Lean Product Development- the Selective Approach”
David Augustine, Director of R&D, Ingersoll Rand- ThermoKing
Dave Augustine will present his initiatives for a selecting and implementing vital elements of the knowledge based product design and development system. Dave will describe A3 thinking/practice, voice of the customer in the R&D process and improving platform project leadership K Factors carefully selected and implemented in ThermoKing’s transformation initiatives.
. “Using Set Based Design Knowledge for timely Design Decisions”
Sam Landers, R&D Senior Fellow, Goodyear Tire and Rubber
In the long rubber technology development history with applications including rubber tires for many uses, scientific and engineering technical knowledge is deep and valuable. Sam Landers has studied how Toyota generates and communicates its deep, embedded scientific knowledge using trade off curves to make timely design decisions. Sam will describe fresh approaches for technical knowledge visuals and the use of trade off curves that contain vital design risk knowledge and eliminates redundant problem solving.
"Managing Knowledge Flow in a Development Process"
Todd Stute, Director of Continuous Improvement, Seagate Corporation
Todd Stute will describe Seagate’s experiences transforming the Seagate product development organization to a knowledge based system in which the technical knowledge flows to smoothly and simultaneously throughout the multi functional design groups.
"Transforming to Lean Product Development Concurrent with Lean Toyota Production System Initiatives"
Ron Rotondo Continuous Improvement Manager, Product Design and Development formerly with Hoffman Enclosures- Pentair Company
Ron Rotondo was the Hoffman principle design engineer in 06, doing design engineering work and tasked with a lean product development initiative. Ron will describe the lean initiative: his “lived experiences with the 3P method and the four pillars of lean product development. K Factors such as voice of the customer knowledge flow, value stream mapping and visual development project tools were implemented. This transformation ranks as the benchmark for medium size development organizations that want to learn the K based system and implement it on a compressed time line. Ron will demonstrate his newest visual diagram of technical knowledge flow.
Who participates in the Savvy Conferences?
Product engineering managers, directors, Development project leaders, managers, administrators; platform managers, chief engineers; engineering department managers; principle design engineers, lead engineers; new product managers, product planning managers, test engineering managers, continuous improvement managers.
Savvy Consortium Lean Product Development Conference VI
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Courtyard by Marriott
370 N Route 83
Elmhurst, IL 60126
630-941-9444
Conference Cost: $850
Savvy Conference Registration: www.savvyconsortium.com
If you are looking for North America’s lean product development conference with the richest tradition of deep, practical, experiential knowledge, put Savvy on your March 18, 2009 calendar.
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Savvy Consortium assures that you will get the management knowledge you need to improve your product development productivity in any economic environment. Your Knowledge will Win.
Event content, presentation materials and presenters may change without notice, but with intent to maintain or increase quality and relevance.