Experience this groundbreaking approach to new product development, production process planning and implementation – and consistently launch new products three to four times faster than your competition
This one-week, hands-on workshop at the TBM LeanSigma Institute in Durham, NC combines instruction and simulation to teach the basics of rapid, team-based product and process design within a Lean framework – generating results that are a quantum leap from traditional or concurrent engineering approaches.
- Translate You Customer’s Needs into Innovative Products.
- Be consistently first to market.
- Experience these techniques through a hands-on simulation.
Ideal Attendees
- Design Engineers
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Product and Marketing Managers
- Operations Managers
- Others in the Design and Production Process
Key Learning
- How to use Voice of Customer (VOC) to understand true customer needs and translate them into critical product requirements
- Maximize quality and production flexibility to easily adapt to variations in customer demand
- Dramatically reduce your development costs and be consistently first to market with innovative, high-appeal products
- Participate in a hands-on simulation and learn how to apply lean growth tools to streamline the product development process
Learning Overview
Concept Phase of Development
- How to hear the voice of the customer – and define customer needs using the "House of Quality" process
- Translate customer needs into the most critical product requirements
- Benchmark competition and compare against customer requirements
- Translate this data into the critical and most difficult design specifications
- Brainstorm ideas using our “Managed Creativity Process” to create multiple concepts
- How to select and de-select from many concepts
Design Phase
- How to design for Lean manufacture
- Access a design for manufacturability
- Reduce the number of piece parts in a design
- Redesign a product to reduce cost
Production Phase
- Create the production process using the Production Preparation methodology
- Develop unique and critical pieces of production equipment
- Focus on "Creativity Before Capital"
- Techniques of material presentation
- How to conduct pre-production trials
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“This is the future of new product development and production process planning.”
Cris Schaefer,
Kaizen Promotion Office Manager,
Hubbell Wiring Systems
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“Through Design for LeanSigma, we’ve reduced the time from inception to going to market by 50 percent. By reducing the time this much we gain the revenue more quickly and free up resources in marketing and engineering to double the amount of products we’ve been able to introduce. We’re getting it right the first time and meeting customer expectations better.”
Paul Adelberg,
Vice President of Lean Technology,
Hayward Pool Products
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