Lean Product and Process Development

 

Course Description: Learn about the real secret of Toyota and other world-class lean enterprises the Lean Development System. Product and process development often sets the leanness level of your value stream and limits the extent of improvement! Lean Development System employs non-conventional and even counter-intuitive approaches to streamline the development processes with lean principles. Not only do it right the first time, but also make it work before starting. Learn to establish a more effective and efficient development system for your lean enterprise.

 

Who should attend the course: Company executives, R&D directors and engineers, engineering managers, design engineers, and process engineers.

Outline (subject to change)

Session 1 - The Driver of Core Competency Lean Development Overview

  • Toyota's Real Secret
  • Lean Thinking
  • Value and Value Streams in PPD

Session 2 - Seeing the Waste, Value, and Value Stream in Development Processes

  • Common Wastes
  • Seeing the Wastes
  • TPDS

Session 3 - Developing the Lean Development System

  • Value Focus
  • Entrepreneur System Design
  • Set-based Concurrent Engineering
  • Cadence, Flow, and Pull
  • Team of Responsible Experts

Session 4 - Implement, Sustain, and Thrive with Lean Development System

  • Successful Cases
  • Challenges Ahead
  • Guidelines for Implementation

Session 5 - Example and Conclusion

  • Example: Applying VSM to a Product Development Process
  • Conclusion