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With the
broad-based success of lean manufacturing across multiple
industries over the past decade, the pressure has steadily
increased for companies to take lean concepts further upstream
in the product development process. Applying lean principles to
the creative and non-linear environment of product development
has proven to be a formidable challenge. Adding to that
challenge is the fact that there is no universally prescribed
method for applying lean concepts to product development.
Clearly, The Toyota Product Development System is well known and
highly praised, but is often emulated with limited success.
Other methods take a more economically-based approach to
applying lean concepts that have the most potential for payback
and still others focus primarily on waste reduction. Which lean
methods and approaches will have the most impact, which are
right for your company to pursue and how can you get started on
the right path?
To address these critical issues,
Management Roundtable is pleased to announce its fall
conference, Profiting from Lean Product
Development: Toyota Methods & Beyond, to be held
October 14 � 15, 2008 in Chicago, IL. This two-day
program will bring together the leading lean thought leaders and
advanced practitioners to discuss key strategies and approaches
to successfully implement lean principles into product
development and the resultant impact on productivity, cycle time
and profits.
By attending, you
will come away with guidelines, how-to�s and case examples to:
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Achieve breakthrough results
versus incremental gains - 50% faster product development
cycle times and 5-10x the productivity of your engineering
department
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Implement lean thinking into
company culture and company paradigms to gain buy-in from
key stakeholders
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Create, capture, share, and
reuse robust technical knowledge across design projects
- Adopt
lean methods like batch size reduction, queue management,
and cadence to significantly increase speed and quality
while decreasing development costs
If you�re in
the midst of implementing lean concepts into product development
and aren�t pleased with the early results or if you�re just
getting started, this program offers a unique learning
opportunity as well as a chance to interact with a select
network of lean product development experts and practitioners. |
