CAMLS Short Course Series

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

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