NPD & Engineering Conference XXIX

Thursday-Friday, October1- 2, 2020

Host: Savvy Consortium/Optima 

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Venue: St. Cloud State University Plymouth Campus

9750 Rockford Rd Suite 100

Plymouth, MN 55442

What is the Savvy Consortium?

Savvy is a Professional Consortium of Product Development Engineering Managers. They are the Savvy Learning Group who meet to give and take their learnings from each others' experiences managing product development people, processes, principles, tools and practices.

Our Mission: 

To advance science and technology for the betterment of mankind.

1

Design high quality new products that satisfy customer value expectations.

2

Increase production efficiency to meet short time-to-market schedules.

3

Integrate useful technology into innovative product designs.

Featured Attendees

  • Amano Pioneer

  • Cooper

  • Goodyear

  • TSI

  • General Mills

  • McDonalds

  • Medtronic

  • Sauder

  • Dana

  • Timken

  • Eaton

  • Toro

  • Alcoa

  • Inovonics

  • Steris/US Endoscopy

  • Masonite

  • Nexen Group

  • Boston Scientific

  • St. Jude Medical

  • Cabot

  • Schram

  • Genie

  • Pella

  • John Deere

  • Diebold

  • Stratasys

  • Tennant

  • Deluxe

  • Actuant

  • Parker

  • Knowles

  • Keithley

  • Crown

  • GE Medical

  • CNH Industrial

  • Cabot Electronics

  • Wil-burt

  • UTAS Aerospace

  • Exmark

  • Saris

  • Toyota

  • Altec

  • RT technologie

  • HGST

  • Waterous

  • Ditch Witch

  • Terex

  • Emerson

  • Diamond

  • 3M

  • Henny Penny

  • Kohler

  • Andersen

  • Wet Design

  • Sub Zero

  • Harley Davidson

  • Autobag

  • CA Companies

  • Beckman Coulter

  • Donaldson

  • Seagate

  • Vermeer

  • Loram

  • and participants from many other manufacturers that are implementing continuous improvement in their product design engineering organizations.