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New Savvy Workshop!
The Chief Engineer
The Savvy Consortium engineering managers will present the nine function methodology used in the chief engineer led product development project. The practices used by the chief engineer in organizations like Toyota to get the new product designed, developed and launched will be taught using visual materials. Workshop exercises will prepare the attendees to integrate the practices in their current tasks as product developers.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Cost: $800
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.