eDevelopment: Web-Enabled
Product Development
Instructor:
Edward K. Yu, Principal,
Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath
This workshop will focus on requirements definition and approaches
to using real-time, integrated, cross-project information systems to
dramatically improve a business’ ability to manage product
development as a whole rather than focusing on individual projects.
The product
development management process has improved dramatically over the
last decade. In fact, most electronics companies have progressed
along a process improvement curve to the point where they are twice
as effective developing products today as they were 10 years ago.
For the most part, these improvements stem from advances in
management practices such as more clearly focused decision making;
more effective cross-functional project teams and more structured
and defined process flows to reduce wasted time.
Now another dramatic
improvement is on the horizon. Newly emerging information systems
technology will create a new process improvement curve. This will
turn today’s effective, but passive, management processes into
active innovation systems, helping organizations achieve
improvements even more dramatic than those of the last decade.
About the
Instructor
Ed Yu has over
17 years of experience in product development and manufacturing
operations in the electronics, aerospace, process, and life sciences
industries. Ed is currently a Principal with the high technology
management consulting firm, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath (PRTM),
and has spent over ten years in industry as Director of
Manufacturing at Southwall Technologies, Inc. and as Program Manager
at Acurex Corporation, where he earned a patent for an aerospace
invention. Ed also held various engineering positions at General
Dynamics and Bechtel Petroleum. Ed’s product development experience
is based on tailoring PRTM’s Product And Cycle-time Excellence®
(PACE®) framework to different client environments. His facilitation
work with cross-functional teams has earned "Best of the Best" and
president’s awards for superior team performance.
Ed is a graduate of the University of
California, Berkeley, with a BS Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He
received an MS Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration
in Design, Concurrent Engineering, and Engineering Management from
Santa Clara University. |
Lean Design
for the
Supply Chain
Instructor:
Sandy Munro, President,
Munro & Associates, Inc.
Participants
will gain a good understanding of Lean Design™ principles and tools,
and will receive practical, useful information that they can apply
to help their own companies create breakthrough products.
To maximize
profitability, increase quality and speed time-to-market,
manufacturers must move beyond lean manufacturing to Lean Design.
Lean Design™ takes a multi-disciplinary approach that considers
total accounted cost through the product’s entire life cycle and
involves the entire supply chain at the earliest design stages. This
holistic approach to product design can have a tremendous impact on
a product’s success, since the design ultimately dictates 70% of the
product’s total cost.
In this dynamic
workshop, leading product development expert Sandy Munro discusses
the many rules and tools used in his Lean Design™ approach. He also
will share his supply-chain insights gained across several
industries regarding the potential for success and the pitfalls of
modular design, and will review real-world supply chain case studies
on "things gone right" vs. "things gone wrong."
About the
Instructor
One of
Management Roundtable’s most highly rated speakers ever, Sandy Munro
is uniquely knowledgeable, passionate, and down-to-earth all at
once. Having advised some of the world’s top manufacturing
executives on implementing cultural change and integrated product
development strategies, he offers a wealth of perspective and a
penchant for technology transfer. He has worked globally with every
conceivable type of product and his experience cuts across virtually
every segment of the design and manufacturing industry. A pioneer in
the use of Design for Assembly (DFA)/Design for Manufacturability
(DFM), he founded Munro & Associates, Inc., in 1988 to help North
American manufacturers harness the power of concurrent
engineering/DFM to reach new levels of global competitiveness. Since
that time, Munro has helped manufacturers of all types of products —
from airplanes to toys, appliances to medical devices, and
automobiles to electronics — to save an estimated $40 billion and
retain or return to North America some 200,000 jobs. |
