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
The SavvyTM Knowledge Consort Presents
Savvy Consortium Seminar:
From a small auto manufacturer in the 1940s, Toyota's product development engineers have maneuvered their firm to the global leader position in the auto industry and #1 in USA market share. They accomplished this by building a basic, agile, "lean" product design and development system (TPIDDS). According to international author Michael Kennedy, this is fundamentally a learning system.
Elements of TPIDDS are explained in a highly visual, easy to grasp half day seminar format as follows:
Seminar Presenters
This seminar was designed and is presented by product development managers with early adopter experiences initiating the Toyota Product Innovation, Design and Development System:
Merle Meyer, P.E., Vice President, New Product Development, Rapid Refill, Inc.
Jim Jacobs, Savvy Consortium. Formerly product development manager (similar in part to Toyota's chief engineer role) who helped launch 14 new product platforms for six manufacturing firms serving a variety of industries. Jim is founder of the Savvy Consortium -"serving the early adopters of Toyota's Product Design and Development System."
These seminar presenters are dynamic product development leaders who studied, interpreted and initiated elements of TPIDDS in their Product Development organizations. They draw on their deep experience and the source materials of internationally known authors Dr. Durward Sobek, Michael N. Kennedy (formerly product engineering manager - Texas Instruments) and the late Dr. Allen Ward. The insight of Professors Satoshi Hino and the astute observations of James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker are also noted.
Deliverables: workbook of presentation materials and visuals.
Seminar Dates:
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Morning
Holiday Inn Bloomington Interstate 35W at 94th Street
Cost: $500
To register now click here
Internal workshops available for PD leaders in one firm: call Jim Jacobs (952) 922-7006.
Savvy Consortium Seminar:
Introduction to the Basics of Toyota's Product Design and Development System
From a small auto manufacturer in the 1940s, Toyota's product development engineers have maneuvered their firm to the global leader position in the auto industry and #1 in USA market share. They accomplished this by building a basic, agile, "lean" product design and development system (TPIDDS). According to international author Michael Kennedy, this is fundamentally a learning system.Elements of TPIDDS are explained in a highly visual, easy to grasp half day seminar format as follows:
- Brief account of Toyota's beginning as a small entrepreneur company.
- The Toyota's Product Innovation, Design and Development System: four pillars, thirteen principles.
- Toyota's product development project leader: the chief engineer
- Set based design thinking and practices and the design convergent method.
- Trade off curves: engineering knowledge and language.
- Toyota's expert product development engineering "knowledge workforce"
- Responsibility based product development project that uses visual tools.
Seminar Presenters
This seminar was designed and is presented by product development managers with early adopter experiences initiating the Toyota Product Innovation, Design and Development System:
Merle Meyer, P.E., Vice President, New Product Development, Rapid Refill, Inc.
Jim Jacobs, Savvy Consortium. Formerly product development manager (similar in part to Toyota's chief engineer role) who helped launch 14 new product platforms for six manufacturing firms serving a variety of industries. Jim is founder of the Savvy Consortium -"serving the early adopters of Toyota's Product Design and Development System."
These seminar presenters are dynamic product development leaders who studied, interpreted and initiated elements of TPIDDS in their Product Development organizations. They draw on their deep experience and the source materials of internationally known authors Dr. Durward Sobek, Michael N. Kennedy (formerly product engineering manager - Texas Instruments) and the late Dr. Allen Ward. The insight of Professors Satoshi Hino and the astute observations of James Morgan and Jeffrey Liker are also noted.
Deliverables: workbook of presentation materials and visuals.
Seminar Dates:
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Morning
Holiday Inn Bloomington Interstate 35W at 94th Street
Cost: $500
To register now click here
Internal workshops available for PD leaders in one firm: call Jim Jacobs (952) 922-7006.