Course Dates: TBA
Location: Lexington, KY
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The implementation of lean often starts at the shop floor with the application of tools and techniques that imitate or copy how Toyota achieves industrial engineering. These first few steps on the shop floor are often very successful and encourage supervisors, managers and employees to think differently about value-added processes and how waste can be eliminated in operations. Unfortunately, this approach can only be applied so far and only repeated when new products or services enter the shop floor for another production cycle. Interestingly, most practitioners in lean do not consider how product design impacts operations or that it represents a significant portion of the total benefit in implementing efficient and effective operations. The result is that companies continue down a path of incremental shop floor improvements yet never break through to large and significant reductions in cost due to how the product is designed and developed.
The Lean Systems Group at UK is offering a 2-day Product Design and Development course to teach lean facilitators the fundamentals of lean product design. In this course, participants will be able to apply Toyota’s techniques in setting design criteria that maximizes customer satisfaction while maintaining production feasibility and capability. This course allows participants to get an inside view of Toyota’s interdepartmental functions that are essential in developing products that maintain cost targets through planning and budgeting. Other aspects of the course include Toyota’s management systems that are used in development phases and their pilot build process that ensures stable and predictable operations before final production. Overall, participants will be expected to understand the critical functions and activities that occur in the design and development process and how they impact manufacturing, services or operations.
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